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Immigrants pose ‘difficult dilemma’ for Denver Health, justices draw line on fines against firm-switching lawyers | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is Jan. 16, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: Denver Health – the city’s hospital safety net – saw $10 million in additional “uncompensated care” in the last year, which the health system attributed to the tens of thousands of medical visits from immigrant patients from South and Central America. The rise…
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Trump wins Iowa caucuses, DeSantis edges Haley; Denver mayor goes to DC to plead for action on illegal immigration | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is Jan. 15, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: Former President Donald Trump scored a record-setting win in the Iowa caucuses on Monday with his rivals languishing far behind, a victory that sent a resounding message that the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination is his to lose. Trump was on track to set…
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Tom Tancredo endorses Republican Erik Aadland in Colorado’s 7th Congressional District
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Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo formally endorsed Republican Erik Aadland in the race for the open seat in Colorado’s 7th Congressional District, saying the West Point Military Academy graduate has “demonstrated his patriotism as a decorated combat veteran.” Aadland, a former manager for an oil and gas company, is running against Democratic nominee state Sen.…
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US denies passports to Americans along the border, questioning their citizenship
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by Kevin Sieff, The Washington Post PHARR, Tex. – On paper, he’s a devoted U.S. citizen. His official American birth certificate shows he was delivered by a midwife in Brownsville, at the southern tip of Texas. He spent his life wearing American uniforms: three years as a private in the Army, then as a cadet…
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Q&A with America’s top border cop, 1st woman to run the Border Patrol
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Carla Provost on Thursday was named chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, the first woman to lead the force in its 94-year history. It’s the largest division within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Provost supervises 20,000 agents who patrol nearly 6,000 miles of international borders with Mexico and Canada. Actually, Provost has been running…
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DURAN | Colorado does care about separated families
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Last weekend, I traveled to the port of entry in Tornillo, Texas, where hundreds of children are detained in tents and kept away from their families. It’s been labelled a “tent city,” and it looks as bleak as it sounds. Temperatures reached into the triple digits that weekend. The responsibility of this manufactured humanitarian crisis…
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GOP leaders eye new bill on family separations at border
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WASHINGTON – Struggling to find the votes to pass a sweeping immigration overhaul, U.S. House Republicans are narrowing on a slimmed down bill to stem the crisis of separating immigrant families at the border. But even that more modest measure hit uncertainty Monday. President Donald Trump rejected one top idea – adding more immigration judges…
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DeGette, Coffman call for change amid border crisis
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Two Colorado congressional representatives from across the political aisle agree: What’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border needs to change. A number of House members visited the border this weekend, including Colorado’s Diana DeGette (D-Denver) and Mike Coffman (R-Aurora). Both have been critical of the Trump administration’s previous policy of separating families detained at the border.…
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Coffman plans border trip to view Trump’s ‘terrible mistake’
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Describing the separation of families at the U.S.-Mexico border as “a terrible mistake” by the Trump administration, U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman tells 9News that he’s planning a trip to the border. The Aurora Republican also is calling on President Donald Trump to fire one of his senior advisors. “The president should fire Stephen Miller now,”…
