Tag: ice
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EDITORIAL: Ban on hiring ICE would backfire on Colorado
We get it — ruling Democrats at Colorado’s state Capitol deplore the Trump administration’s yearlong crackdown on illegal immigration. They’ve gone to just about every length to make that clear, in their rhetoric and in their policymaking. In making their point, they’ve taken a lot of potshots at the president over the issue and have…
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Colorado’s federal judges maintain approach to immigration detentions while escalating warnings
Colorado’s federal judges are maintaining their view that the government’s assertion of broad immigration detention authority is unlawful, casting aside a recent appellate decision to the contrary as “unpersuasive” and out of step with the predominant interpretation by the judiciary. However, several judges are speaking out forcefully about the behavior from the government, including missed…
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U2’s new music honors Renee Good in ‘American Obituary’
LOS ANGELES — U2 is returning with its first collection of new songs in nearly a decade, opening with a tribute to Renee Nicole Good, the Minnesota mom and Colorado Springs native fatally shot by a federal agent during this winter’s massive immigration crackdown. The Irish rock band released the six-song EP “U2 – Days of Ash” on Wednesday. Its…
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Xtreme International Ice Racing slides into The Broadmoor World Arena
Studded tires, roaring engines and zero room for error. This is racing, only with a frigid twist. That’s because of the surface. It’s not pavement, and it’s not dirt. Xtreme International Ice Racing boasts the slickest surface, and that should make for intense action. Round 5 of the fierce competition comes to Colorado Springs this…
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Cripple Creek Ice Festival will transform busy street into a frozen art gallery
Some art endures for centuries, seemingly frozen in time. Then there is the art at Cripple Creek Ice Festival: actually frozen, but only for a few days. When your medium is a 300-pound block of ice, time is not on your side. And neither is the sun. But the six professional carving teams traveling to…
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Protesters storming a church in Minnesota draw firm responses in Colorado Springs
A couple of weeks after a group of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters in St. Paul, Minn., unexpectedly interrupted Sunday worship to the point that the Southern Baptist-affiliated Cities Church called off the remainder of its service, and with at least seven people facing federal charges as of Friday for “conspiracy to deprive rights”…
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Several Colorado Springs businesses join nationwide ‘ICE Out’ strike
Some businesses in Colorado Springs joined a collective action called for across the country on Friday for an “ICE Out of Everywhere National Day of Action.” The group 50501 called for “no work, no school, no shopping” locally in response to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. It comes a week after a general strike in…
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Colorado Springs experiences ‘weather whiplash’ as arctic blast sweeps through Pikes Peak region
Colorado Springs experienced a case of weather whiplash over the weekend as an arctic air mass swept through the Pikes Peak region, interrupting what has been, for the most part, an unseasonably warm January. The city saw frigid, single-digit temperatures and a steady cascade of light, dry snow throughout the weekend, making for slick, icy…
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Hundreds gather at Colorado Springs City Hall to protest second deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis
The second deadly shooting of a U.S. citizen by federal agents in Minnesota brought hundreds of protesters to the steps of City Hall in Colorado Springs on Sunday despite below-freezing temperatures and steady snowfall. Coordinated by the Colorado Springs Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, 50501 and other activist groups, the protest was in response…
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Fort Carson soldier’s wife could be deported
As the country’s largest immigration enforcement crackdown continues in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, a Fort Carson sergeant is fighting a personal immigration crisis — one that may implode his family. Sgt. Tyler Garza’s wife, Jennifer Maradiaga Baca, is not a legal U.S. citizen and an immigration judge’s 15-year-old deportation order from 2011 hangs over her head.…