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Guest Post: Why we must pass the Dream and Promise...

For nearly two decades, working immigrant Coloradans who gained an opportunity to live and work in our communities under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS)...

Colorado DREAMer makes his case in Washington

This week, I had the unique opportunity to fly to Washington D.C. and join Dreamers from across the country to advocate for the Dream...

Here’s what Congress can do about DACA— and where Colorado’s representatives...

With a formal announcement that Donald Trump's administration will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — known as DACA — attention has...

Romanoff, Coffman woo Latino voters with debate in Spanish

  DENVER — The two men vying to represent Colorado’s diverse Sixth Congressional District in Aurora, where Latino voters make up 20 percent of the...

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...

‘Taking each day as it comes’

Jorge Tellez grew up in Colorado, an all-American kid. He's also one of the country's nearly 2 million undocumented immigration-reform Dreamers.

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.

Littwin: Just don’t say ‘amnesty’

The big story out of the House Republican retreat is, of course, the House Republican retreat on immigration reform.

Coffman Joins in Vote to Reject Order Suspending Immigrant Youth Deportations

Colorado Congressman Mike Coffman joined other Republican members of the House in voting to lift the executive order issued by President Obama last year that suspended deportation of undocumented immigrant youth and offered them the opportunity to apply for work permits.