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Thursday, February 9th, 2012

Posts Tagged Immigration

T4 Tailgate! Congressman Tom Tancredo to celebrate Quarterback Tim Tebow

By | 12.09.11 | 10:15 am

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 sheriff Arpaio

By | 11.28.11 | 12:32 pm

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.

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Tancredo slams Perry as an ‘arrogant, open border, pro-amnesty politician’

By | 09.27.11 | 9:37 am

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 border’

By | 05.12.11 | 11:14 am

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.

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ASSET bill passes Senate: faces uncertain future in House

By | 04.15.11 | 4:15 pm

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

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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Levy calls Gessler’s bluff: says he should prosecute those who vote illegally

By | 04.08.11 | 5:47 am

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.

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Colorado’s varied economy, demography may dampen hard-line politics

By | 03.23.11 | 10:06 am

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.

VIDEO: Polis again urges Congress to act on immigration reform

By | 03.03.11 | 4:29 pm

Colorado Second District Congressman Jared Polis on Wednesday tried again to spur his colleagues to work to fix the nation’s broken immigration system. A champion of comprehensive federal reform from the time he entered Congress in 2008, Polis said Americans everywhere and across the political spectrum are demanding change. He suggested that politics should no longer get in the way of action on what has become a divisive issue coast to coast. “This nation has over 15 million people who are here illegally, and yet I don’t hear one word about comprehensive immigration reform,” he said from the floor of the House.

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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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