Douglas County filed suit Monday against the state of Colorado, alleging that two laws prohibiting local governments from cooperating with the federal government on immigration enforcement violate the state constitution. The lawsuit, which other conservative counties are considering joining, takes aim at laws passed by the legislature and signed by Gov. Jared Polis in recent … Read more
Denver is overhauling its approach to serving migrants in a major shift announced Wednesday — along with revised budget impact projections that soon will allow the city to roll back some cuts, including reduced hours at city recreation centers. Mayor Mike Johnston said the city would discontinue the costly practice of sheltering newly arrived migrants … Read more
NEW ORLEANS — A Texas law that allows the state to arrest and deport migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S. will remain on hold for now, a federal appeals court ruled. The order late Tuesday from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals followed a March 20 hearing by a three-judge panel of the … Read more
JOCOTENANGO, Guatemala — On a quiet cobblestone street in a town 90 minutes outside of Guatemala City, class was in session for hundreds of young Guatemalans on a Monday morning. Children in kindergarten through ninth grade moved through the open-air courtyard of the free private school for disadvantaged students, which is run by a global … Read more
Douglas County plans to launch a legal challenge of recent state laws that bar local law enforcement in Colorado from closely cooperating with federal immigration officials on the detention and incarceration of immigrants. Leaders of the conservative south metro county have characterized the legal challenge and a proposed ordinance aimed at preventing the busing of … Read more
Early on a mid-February morning, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in unmarked vehicles gathered in an empty parking lot in Denver, nearly a quarter mile from the workplace of a man they had been tracking. In a briefing, the officers described how they planned to arrest the 25-year-old, who was born in Mexico, as … Read more
En Inglés Emily Borges quiere trabajar — aunque no sea como una policía. Ella dejó la carrera de decena de años en Venezuela después de tener amenazas dentro de su misma agencia de policía por hacer su trabajo en medio de una corrupción dominante. Después de un viaje peligroso a los Estados Unidos, Borges y … Read more
Emily Borges wants to work — even if it’s not as a cop, the decade-long career she said she left behind in Venezuela after facing threats within her own police agency for doing her job amid pervasive corruption. After a treacherous journey to the U.S., Borges and her 2-year-old daughter, Arantza, crossed the southern border … Read more
They came by the hundreds, crowding into a fourth-floor room in a nondescript office building in Lakewood — their message loud and earnest. “We do not want to be Denver,” former Councilwoman Mary Janssen told the gathering. “I live in Lakewood. When did we decide to give away our immigration laws?” Last week’s hastily arranged … Read more
On a good day, a group of Venezuelan migrants at work cleaning windshields at busy Denver intersections for 12 hours might make around $70 — splitting the money between 10 or more people. Despite the low payoff, that work has become a common sight across the city in recent months: Men and women standing on … Read more
