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Immigration activist one step closer to victory

After seven years fighting deportation, Jeannette Vizguerra finally has some good news. On Wednesday, the longtime Denver resident and mother of three told a crowd of...

No word from ICE: Undocumented immigrant Jeanette Vizguerra’s caught in limbo

On Thursday, undocumented immigrant Jeanette Vizguerra’s stay of removal expired. And she still has no idea whether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will grant...

Local mother Jeanette Vizguerra to ICE: Don’t break up my family

Jeanette Vizguerra is a mother raising three kids by herself in Denver. She works long hours to put food on the table, helps them with...

Partial victory: Undocumented immigrant Arturo Garcia walks free after nine months...

Since October, Arturo Hernandez Garcia has been living in the basement of the First Unitarian Society of Denver in sanctuary from a U.S. Immigration and...

Colorado sheriffs, immigration activists, lawmakers join forces for ICE-detainer reform

Last summer Alejandro Menocal was about to be released from the Adams County Jail, where he had served time for dodging court fines. But...

Thrown into the maze: A U.S. citizen’s unfortunate odyssey through the...

GUNNISON – Bernardo Medina was leaving a brief traffic-offense hearing in a Gunnison County courtroom Jan. 27 when he was stopped by federal immigration...

Bringing Papá home for the holidays, from immigration detention

When immigration authorities first came to Jose Luis Guerrero Luna's door in Aurora, they were looking for someone else. "We didn't really know our rights...

Speaking their names: Aurora student talks undocumented parents

They're not abstract lawbreakers, freeloaders or hardworking community members unfairly relegated to the shadows. Naza thinks his family is really just so normal.

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."

Cory Gardner looks for win-win stance on immigration reform

Immigration reform is a key issue in Colorado elections, where 14 percent of the voting population is Hispanic and where 70 percent of voters overall support reform. Protests in favor of immigration reform, or of at least staying deportations, have become near-weekly fixtures of the state’s tight political races.