Dec 9, 2011
Federal prosecutors began a "triage" review of immigration cases this week by initiating an examination of each of the more than 7,800 cases currently pending in Denver's overloaded immigration courts.
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Dec 8, 2011
There are many flashpoints between Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney as they battle for the Republican presidential nomination. Most of them are about character or leadership: Who can beat President Obama? Who's the real conservative?
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is disputing the latest figures from a data-research organization at Syracuse University, which indicate that the majority of Colorado deportees in the last fiscal year were not high-priority criminals.
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The federal government appears to be taking a close look at immigration enforcement. Recently, the House Judiciary subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement conducted a hearing on Secure Communities, a federal program that will soon involve every local police department with the deportation of immigrants.
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Republicans now in charge of the state legislature are using their clout to push for new laws identifying illegal immigrants and limiting their use of public services. That effort got its start Wednesday in the House Committee on the State's Role in Immigration Policy, which drew a crowd representing...
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A group of Jewish boys in yarmulkes and winter coats walked past the "Taste of Mexico" restaurant on Lawler Street last week on their way home from school. Minutes later, a Somali man wearing a keffiyeh scarf around his neck passed by, perhaps on his way to the town's...
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Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), a longtime supporter of immigration reform, was appointed to the House Judiciary Committee yesterday, and tweeted about it.
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The struggle to overturn HB 56, Alabama's harshest-in-the-land immigration law gained a powerful new ally day before yesterday when state attorney general Luther Strange, a Republican, came out in favor of removing certain portions of the law.
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We know we sound like a broken record, but three new polls demonstrate, again, that the Republican presidential contenders are mostly far afield of where the public is on immigration.
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When new GOP presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich recently advocated a "humane" approach to addressing illegal immigrants in America, some conservatives questioned whether it would fatally damage the former House Speaker's campaign.
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