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GOP immigration meeting featured radical right groups with white supremacist ties

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).

Polis: Wilson outburst boosted momentum for health-reform plan

Outside a noon pro-immigration prayer vigil on Capitol Hill, Colorado's Second District Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Polis said that South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson’s...

Hate Groups Still Alive and Well in Colorado

Just this month a Hispanic man was beaten in Boulder by two teens who thought he was an immigrant. The incident was a violent...

Lies, Damn Lies and Immigration Statistics

The latest immigration reform bill winding its way through Congress has sent the media into a tizzy again. Talking heads spout "nonpartisan" data and...