Tag: Immigration
Coffman Joins in Vote to Reject Order Suspending Immigrant Youth Deportations
Colorado Congressman Mike Coffman joined other Republican members of the House in voting to lift the executive order issued by President Obama last year that suspended deportation of undocumented immigrant youth and offered them the opportunity to apply for work permits.
Poll: On immigration, rural Colorado Republicans don’t know they agree with...
National Rural Assembly poll results on the presidential race released Monday (pdf) found unsurprisingly that swing-state rural voters preferred Mitt Romney over Barack Obama by 14 points. Also not surprising is that the pollsters found that party identification likely matters more in determining whether or not a position will draw support or opposition from these voters than does the substance of the policy position in question.
T4 Tailgate! Congressman Tom Tancredo to celebrate Quarterback Tim Tebow
Tim Tebow is the winning Denver Broncos quarterback who plays ugly and prays constantly. Tom Tancredo is the retired Republican Colorado Congressman who endlessly speechifies and inevitably offends. Tebow's dedication to worshiping Christ may only be matched in this world by Tancredo's dedication to ending illegal immigration. The two are bringing their religions together this Sunday for a "T4" tailgate party as the Broncos host the Chicago Bears.
Perry looks to beef up anti-immigration cred with backing of Arizona...
GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry, who has been called “weak” by immigration enforcement supporters, has picked up the support of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, notorious for his immigration detention measures and his birther conspiracy theories.
Tancredo slams Perry as an ‘arrogant, open border, pro-amnesty politician’
Former Colorado Congressman and anti-illegal immigration crusader Tom Tancredo has no patience with Republican presidential frontrunner Rick Perry, the Texas governor with the Hollywood hair who fired up the right when he announced his candidacy but who has stumbled under the national spotlight ever since. In the wake of last week's GOP candidate debate, Tancredo decried Perry as an arrogant "name-calling, open border, pro-amnesty politician."
Arizona Guv Brewer to publish memoir on ‘battle to secure the...
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is set to tell her side of the SB 1070 drama in a provocatively titled memoir due out in November. "Scorpions For Breakfast: My Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media and Cynical Politicos to Secure America's Border" is scheduled to be published in November by Broadside Books, a conservative imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
ASSET bill passes Senate: faces uncertain future in House
After extensive and energetic debate, a bill which would allow undocumented students who attended high school in Colorado access to in-state tuition, passed second hearing in the Senate in a 20-13 vote. The bill passed on party lines.
Federal court delivers another blow to Arizona immigration law
The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has backed the Obama Administration in its case against SB 1070, the controversial immigration legislation passed by Arizona lawmakers last year. A three-judge panel ruled Monday that Arizona District Judge Susan Bolton "did not abuse her discretion," as the Washington Post put it, when she blocked key provisions of the bill.
Levy calls Gessler’s bluff: says he should prosecute those who vote...
Rep. Claire Levy, D-Boulder, told the Colorado Independent Thursday that she was calling Secretary of State Scott Gessler's bluff to purge individuals who may or may not be improperly on Colorado's voting rolls.
Colorado’s varied economy, demography may dampen hard-line politics
Why is Colorado politically purple, instead of right-red or left-blue? Maybe it's the fact that it's a crossroads home to so many of the "Twelve States of America" mapped by economics-demographers Dante Chinni and James Gimpel. Colorado's economy is like its landscape: High and low and multicolored. And what's missing in Colorado may be as important as what's here. It may surprise some residents to learn that, as a matter of general categories, Colorado is not only low on African Americans but also low on empty nest white folks and evangelical voters.