It’s time to call this what it is. California’s efforts to ban cooperation with federal law enforcement first crossed the line into insurrection. Since then other states, including now Colorado, have followed suit.

The Colorado House has passed a measure aimed at protecting the rights of immigrants in the state, despite efforts by the Trump administration to crack down on illegal immigration.

The House debated Senate Bill 276 for nearly four hours before approving it 42-21 along party lines.

The measure prohibits local and state law enforcement officers from allowing federal immigration agents to enter parts of immigrant detention centers that are off limits to the public…The bill also prohibits another state’s National Guard from entering the state as part of any enforcement action without permission from Colorado’s governor, and prevents federal immigration agents from going into schools, health care and child care facilities, churches, libraries and jails without warrants.

The only people this protects are illegal alien invaders. And states do not have the right or power to deny access to federal law enforcement officials simply because some politicians support certain illegal acts.

If a state voted to ban any cooperation with the IRS in enforcing tax laws or the FBI when prosecuting abortion opponents, the hysteria would be off the charts and federal judges would quickly determine that such actions are invalid.

States cannot defy federal laws or simply set them aside because they disagree with them or obstruct federal enforcement because they support some illegal acts.

That defiance of legal and constitutional federal authority should be treated as what it is… insurrection.