immigration and customs enforcement

Rep. Dave Williams’ latest bill on sanctuary cities fails in House committee

Mar 15, 2018

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Marianne Goodl

Despite support from the White House for the idea, Republican Rep. Dave Williams’ second attempt to put elected officials on the hook for creating sanctuary policies fell by the wayside Wednesday. To no surprise, the Democratic-controlled House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee dispatched Williams’ House Bill 1178 on a party-line 6-3 vote. The same…
Denver defiant toward Trump after threat on immigration policy

Nov 22, 2017

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Tom Ramstack

Words of defiance from state and Denver officials and a federal court’s ruling this week are pushing a dispute over Trump administration immigration policy closer to a confrontation before the U.S. Supreme Court. The Justice Department sent a letter last week to Denver Mayor Michael Hancock threatening to cut off some law enforcement grants if…
Undocumented Denver residents, national cause célèbres, win two-year stays from deportation

May 12, 2017

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Joey Bunch

Jeanette Vizguerra was supposed to be deported from Colorado Friday after living, working and raising kids in the United States for two decades, but instead, as Erica Meltzer of Denverite reported Thursday, U.S, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has granted the undocumented resident a two-year stay. Arturo Hernandez, another Mexican citizen living in Denver without documentation, will…
Bennet, DeGette, Polis hail immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra’s inclusion on TIME 100 list

Apr 21, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette and Jared Polis on Thursday congratulated Jeanette Vizguerra, an immigrant rights activist who has been living in a Denver church to avoid deportation to Mexico, for her appearance on the TIME 100, the magazine’s annual list of the most influential people in the world. The Democrats…
Weekes: Taxpayers footing millions in Colorado’s criminal alien sanctuary city policies

Feb 6, 2017

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Jared Wright

Mayors in Boulder, Denver and Aurora have lately made pronouncements in defense of their “sanctuary city” policies of non-cooperation with federal immigration law enforcement. They are evidently unaware that the sanctuary era was given a death sentence by the Obama administration a full six months before President Trump’s January 25 executive order. Last July 6,…
Sanctuary city? Denver officials pledge to resist Trump’s mass deportation threat

Dec 9, 2016

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Tom Ramstack

Denver and other Colorado cities stand in the crosshairs of President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to cut off federal funding to “sanctuary cities” for illegal immigrants. Sanctuary cities refer to cities that make no more than mediocre efforts to block illegal immigrants from employment or to deport them. Denver city and county officials have sought to…

immigration and customs enforcement

Rep. Dave Williams’ latest bill on sanctuary cities fails in House committee

Denver defiant toward Trump after threat on immigration policy

Undocumented Denver residents, national cause célèbres, win two-year stays from deportation

Bennet, DeGette, Polis hail immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra’s inclusion on TIME 100 list

Weekes: Taxpayers footing millions in Colorado’s criminal alien sanctuary city policies

Sanctuary city? Denver officials pledge to resist Trump’s mass deportation threat