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Federal court delivers another blow to Arizona immigration law

By | 04.11.11 | 1:10 pm

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.

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Colorado Latino lobby day underlines lopsided nature of immigration debate

By | 03.03.11 | 1:34 pm

DENVER– When hundreds of Coloradans flocked to the capitol here Monday for the state’s fifth-annual Latino Advocacy Day, it was a rare recent instance in the state and around the country where support for policies that embrace immigration, U.S. Latino communities and the rights of undocumented residents stole the spotlight from support for policies that set deporting “illegals” and establishing border security as top priorities.

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Latino Republican anti-bigotry campaign draws angry Colorado GOP response

By | 01.11.11 | 11:12 am

As the nation’s political class wrestles with the violence in Arizona that killed and injured more than twenty people and landed Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the hospital with a bullet through the brain, leading national Latino conservative organization Somos Republicans is spotlighting the harsh backlash it drew from members of the Colorado GOP to a campaign it launched last week lauding former state Republican Muhammad Ali Hasan for speaking out about growing bigotry in the party.

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GOP utility regulator in Arizona defends Colorado PUC chairman, power overhaul

By | 12.22.10 | 8:07 am

The Republican head of the Arizona Corporation Commission – the equivalent of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) – recently told The Colorado Independent that coal and mining industry attacks against PUC Chairman Ron Binz are “not plausible.” Binz drew considerable coal industry heat in the lead-up to last week’s ruling by the PUC on a plan by Xcel Energy to shut down several aging coal-fired power plants on Colorado’s Front Range, convert another one to natural gas and build a new natural gas-fired power plant.

CU immigrant tuition equity movement benefits from ‘teach-in’

By | 12.02.10 | 3:00 pm

BOULDER – Roughly 100 University of Colorado-Boulder students working to secure tuition equity for the state’s undocumented teens got a boost Wednesday from professors who held a teach-in for the movement, providing historical perspective on the issue for attendees eager…

Blockbuster Arizona immigration law exposé sure to fuel anti-NPR campaign

By | 10.28.10 | 11:55 am

NPR’s blockbuster investigative report exposing the private prison industry’s role in writing and bankrolling the “lock ‘em up” Arizona immigration law that passed earlier this year is sure to fuel cries rising against NPR on the right led nationally…

Mormon newspaper advocates for protecting rights of illegal immigrants

By | 09.20.10 | 3:34 pm

Salt Lake City’s Deseret News has long been a voice of conservatism in the West — and for good reason seeing as the paper is owned by the Mormon Church.

The New York Times reported today, however,…

Arizona guv Brewer stumbles on air; Coloradans think ‘Maes’

By | 09.02.10 | 11:19 am

Colorado GOP gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes is a regular guy candidate backed by the tea party, which has no appetite for career politicians and party insiders. But Maes is a pretty lousy businessman and doesn’t know much about…

Colorado lawmakers, left and right, look to lead on immigration reform

By | 08.19.10 | 10:22 am

Liberal Boulder Democratic Congressman Jared Polis and a small group of Colorado’s most conservative state lawmakers share a focus: They’re all pushing immigration policy reform and they all believe that now is the time to act.

Polis: SB 1070 ruling just another sign feds must act

By | 07.28.10 | 3:47 pm

Colorado Democratic Congressman Jared Polis Wednesday lauded the decision of U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton to block sections of Arizona’s controversial immigration law, S.B. 1070, which will go into effect Thursday. Polis said the ruling “protected the Constitution” but…

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