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Obama pushes ahead on immigration reform: A Wiretap roundup

Outlets around the country are considering what the president's plan might look like, what precedent it relies upon and, of course, what the political fallout might be as Republicans react with blind rage.

In wake of GOP gains, calls intensify for executive action on...

"We urge Obama to focus our limited immigration enforcement resources on criminals who are truly dangerous and pose a threat to national security or to our communities."

Gardner, Coffman take first steps away from House GOP in key...

All of the Republican members of the Colorado delegation in the House have voted the party line on DACA in the past. But something changed on Friday.

Littwin: Ted Cruz’s humanitarian crisis

  TED Cruz nearly had me. I went to see the Texas senator at the Western Conservative Summit because I have a soft spot for...

Cantor loss spotlights sticky immigration politics shaping Coffman-Romanoff race

The candidates have blasted each other as hypocritical, untrustworthy agents of reform. It's a charge that may be particularly damning for congressional candidates this year.

The deportations will continue until morale improves

We’ve all heard the refrain that “the immigration system is broken.” Everyone agrees. It’s the one thing Tom Tancredo and I can agree on.

Small Protests at Coffman’s Aurora Office Draw Police

AURORA -- City police officers directed small groups of senior and youth protesters away from Congressman Mike Coffman's office here Thursday, issuing one trespassing citation, yelling out instructions to the clutch of citizens shuffled away from the building and unwittingly perhaps underlining the kind of occasionally halting and seemingly uninterested communication style the protesters believe is likely to disqualify Coffman from representing their interest in Washington after 2014.