Tag: DREAMERs
Gardner, Coffman take first steps away from House GOP in key...
All of the Republican members of the Colorado delegation in the House have voted the party line on DACA in the past. But something changed on Friday.
‘Taking each day as it comes’
Jorge Tellez grew up in Colorado, an all-American kid. He's also one of the country's nearly 2 million undocumented immigration-reform Dreamers.
Cantor loss spotlights sticky immigration politics shaping Coffman-Romanoff race
The candidates have blasted each other as hypocritical, untrustworthy agents of reform. It's a charge that may be particularly damning for congressional candidates this year.
Wiretap: Republican immigration ‘strategery’ grows more tragi-comic
From Florida comes a peek at the kind of wriggling strategery we can expect from the Republican Party on immigration reform over the next, what, decade or so? Dreamers there won a comically hedging boost this week. Meantime, in Texas...
The deportations will continue until morale improves
We’ve all heard the refrain that “the immigration system is broken.” Everyone agrees. It’s the one thing Tom Tancredo and I can agree on.
Small Protests at Coffman’s Aurora Office Draw Police
AURORA -- City police officers directed small groups of senior and youth protesters away from Congressman Mike Coffman's office here Thursday, issuing one trespassing citation, yelling out instructions to the clutch of citizens shuffled away from the building and unwittingly perhaps underlining the kind of occasionally halting and seemingly uninterested communication style the protesters believe is likely to disqualify Coffman from representing their interest in Washington after 2014.
Swing-state Latinos rally to Obama after immigration announcement
Latino voters have responded with enthusiasm to President Obama's decision Friday to limit deportation proceedings against and extend green card eligibility to roughly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants. But the head of a conservative Latino group in Colorado cautioned that the administration's track record on immigration demands at best only a cautious optimism.
GOP Latino group calls on Republican senators to support DREAM Act
Latino advocacy group Somos Republicans is calling on GOP Senators to support the youth-immigrant DREAM Act when it comes up for vote Thursday and...
House passes immigrant-youth DREAM Act; Senate to vote Thursday
Wednesday night the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act of 2010, bipartisan legislation that lawmakers...