Tag: DACA
What should a community do to protect its immigrants?
On a sunny morning in early March, over 400 people hit the sidewalks of Greeley, a small city on Colorado’s Eastern Plains. A diverse...
Who gets to stay? Who has to leave? Deportation under Obama...
In 2009, before Colorado repealed its controversial “show me your papers” law, Jeanette Vizguerra was pulled over on her way to work for driving...
Immigrant rights groups rally against President-Elect Trump’s deportation plans
Mere days after President-Elect Donald Trump announced his intention to deport up to three million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, immigrant rights...
GRIEGO: Foreign-born, U.S.-raised youth in the Trump age ask, “What do...
With the election of Donald Trump as president, a countdown of sorts began for one particular group of people: those who are here illegally but were...
Morgan Carroll: Mike Coffman wants to ‘tear families apart’
On Monday morning, as the U.S. Supreme Court began hearing arguments for a critical immigration case, Colorado Democratic Sen. Morgan Carroll accused her opponent,...
Colorado immigration activists join U.S. hunger strike
Arturo Hernandez Garcia, who has sought sanctuary from deportation since November, will be reunited with his family tomorrow — not at their home in...
No sanctuary: Immigrants struggle to keep families together in wake of...
Arturo Hernandez Garcia, 42, has been waiting seven months in the basement of the First Unitarian Church of Denver for some shift in national...
Court rejects Mississippi suit against Obama immigration orders
"We have long known that the injuries suffered by ICE agents and nativist politicians in Mississippi and Texas are fictional."
House Dems in court brief defend Obama immigration orders
"I hope the court works this out as expeditiously as possible so my constituents can have the peace of mind that their families won't be torn apart."
Bringing Papá home for the holidays, from immigration detention
When immigration authorities first came to Jose Luis Guerrero Luna's door in Aurora, they were looking for someone else.
"We didn't really know our rights...