BOULDER – Over 100 CU students braved the fierce cold on Wednesday to show support for SB 126, which would grant undocumented Colorado students access to higher education through in-state tuition.
Colorado supporters of an Arizona-style immigration bill say they will pull the bill this morning before it comes to a vote. As reported by The Durango Herald, even Republicans feared the bill was unconstitutional, and Democrats said it wasn’t needed in Colorado anyway.
While the number of unauthorized immigrants has remained more or less steady in the United States for the last several years at around 11 million, the number of undocumented immigrants in Colorado has fallen substantially in recent years, according to a study released by the Pew Research Center Tuesday.
Erstwhile gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo announces he is returning to the Republican Party. He says he never intended a long term relationship with the American Constitution Party, under whose banner he ran for governor.
In Arizona schools, it’s apparently OK to study black culture, Asian culture and American Indian culture, but offer a class in Latino culture and you put your school district at risk of losing significant state funding, according to an article in today’s New York Times.
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…
Republican legislators Monday hosted an informational meeting to discuss immigration in Colorado, but the Colorado Independent has learned two of the presenters invited to speak were from organizations founded by white supremacist John Tanton. One of those organizations, The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), has been named a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Arizona’s tough new immigration law has cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, according to a study released this morning.
When Arizona passed SB 1070–the anti-immigration legislation–some of the fallout was predictable. Namely musicians began saying they would not perform in Arizona. Hundreds of musicians have pledged not to play in the state. For a complete list of musicians and…
Long before Arizona passed a get-tough immigration law, Prince William County, Virginia, passed one of its own. That law, on the books for several years, has been the subject of a study and of a documentary film (trailer after the…
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