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The Indy stories of 2019 that stayed with us long after...

Metrics tell us a version of the story of our year at The Colorado Independent. They tell us what three stories had the most...

Across borders, through detention, and into Colorado classrooms: The journey of...

At 15, he made the long, frightening trek across Central America and the U.S.-Mexico border with a smuggler. Then he continued on an even...

Parked: Mobile home parks become immigrants’ home away from home For...

AVON, Colo. —  The Aspens Mobile Home Village sits on a wedge of land tucked between eastbound I-70 and the Eagle River in the...

The Indy 500: Asking about citizenship on the 2020 census is...

Here’s an unfun fact: During the 2010 census, 18,000 Colorado children, newborn to 4 years old, went uncounted. I hear this number from Rosemary...

Wiretap: Trump’s deportation rules target the vulnerable and scare everyone else

Donald Trump's new rules on deportation — which could be used to target nearly all immigrants living in the country illegally and make it easier...

Griego: The well from which we drink

In the first hours after our new president signed an executive order to close this country’s doors to refugees — temporarily for now, for...

Latino Dems blame Mike Coffman for Trump’s rise

  Democratic Latino leaders partially blame U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman for laying the ideological base for Donald Trump's "racist" platform. Coffman, who has endorsed Sen. Marco Rubio...

Boyles: Spanish-language National Guard recruitment part of globalist plot

KHOW talk-radio host Peter Boyles Monday agreed with a caller that the National Guard NFL playoff TV advertisements in Spanish were designed to attract...

Bill aims to improve wages, working conditions for immigrant shepherds

State Rep. Daniel Kagan, D-Denver, is proposing a bill to improve conditions for immigrant shepherds on Colorado’s Western Slope, according to the Grand Junction...

Immigrants Looking for American Dream Find Depression and Anxiety

The backlash against immigration had led to a significant increase in the number of Spanish speakers seeking mental health treatment. But providers say there...