Immigrant

Tom Tancredo is a firebrand. He is a darling of the grassroots Colorado right. He also may be a 2010 national politics weather vane. John Avlon, writing at the Daily Beast, sees it that way. In a piece listing the Tea Party’s “five key players,” Avlon thinks Tancredo is a man to watch: Is he [...]

In what is sure to be a rousing committee hearing later today, lawmakers will debate a controversial proposal to create a state system to process federal H-2A visas for temporary agricultural workers. The bill, which has bipartisan support, is meant to help Colorado farmers desperate for legal workers willing to do stoop labor. Rights groups [...]

Part of an immigrant-integration project in Boulder County, the event Friday at Sewell Hall on the Boulder campus gave foodservice, maintenance and janitorial workers and CU students the opportunity to get to know one another. 

Plans for immigrant integration have been dogged by criticism from the town’s conservative residents. But the group continues moving forward with plans to have a full-time coordinator in place by the end of March.

The hometown fast food joint, Chipotle Mexican Grill, has built a reputation for preferring naturally raised pork purchased from family farms. Activists would like to see the company take a similar interest in improving the well-being of farmworkers in its supply chain.