Tag: illegal immigration
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EDITORIAL: Colorado’s tuition sanctuary draws federal fire
The U.S. Department of Justice sued Colorado late last month to end a program that provides in-state college tuition to illegal immigrants. The lawsuit underscores how a policy framed as compassion collided with federal law — creating unequal treatment while backfiring on those it purports to help. As The Gazette reported, state lawmakers in 2013…
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EDITORIAL: ICE arrests enforce the law — a good thing
Plenty of Coloradans no doubt would feel reassured by new data showing a third of the arrests of illegal immigrants by federal authorities are of people with a history of criminal convictions. That not only helps vindicate the Trump administration’s much-debated crackdown on illegal immigration but also, more importantly, means that many more convicts have…
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EDITORIAL: Upholding the rule of law against illegal immigration
We’ll say it again: Colorado U.S. District Court Judge Dan Domenico gets it. He isn’t about to be snookered or cowed by the nationwide lawfare campaign to spring illegal immigrants from federal detention. And he deserves a round of applause. Unlike all too many of his peers on the federal bench, Domenico isn’t bowing before…
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EDITORIAL: Illegal immigration gives Coloradans more sticker shock
Who knew it would cost taxpayers so much to provide health care to anyone who lands on the doorstep of Sanctuary Colorado? Evidently, our legislature hadn’t a clue. It turns out it not only costs a lot but in fact runs the tab a lot higher than lawmakers had anticipated. Many times more. As reported…
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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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EDITORIAL: A chance to shed Colorado’s sanctuary status
Shooting deaths in Minneapolis involving Immigration & Customs Enforcement’s operations have stirred strong opinions about what to do with illegal immigration in our state and across the country. Many Coloradans are against ICE’s operations in Minneapolis and elsewhere, including here in Colorado, under President Donald Trump and find them to be unwarranted and dangerous. Many…
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Colorado Democrats react to Alex Pretti’s death in Minnesota
Colorado’s Democrats called for an “impartial” investigation into the death of a man shot by a federal agent during an immigration operation on Saturday. Meanwhile, the chief of the Border Patrol defended the shooting, saying Alex Pretti inserted himself in an ongoing law enforcement operation. Gov. Jared Polis called the shooting “tragic and unacceptable.” Pretti’s…
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EDITORIAL: Say it, Governor: Colorado is a sanctuary state
Gov. Jared Polis is at it again, claiming just last week that Colorado isn’t a sanctuary for illegal immigration. Most notably, he contends Colorado law enforcement agencies freely work with federal authorities, including on cases involving illegal immigrants — despite recently enacted state laws to the contrary. It was by his own pen that those…
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EDITORIAL: Don’t confuse protest with obstruction of justice
Activists opposed to the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration are, predictably, exploiting the shooting death of a former Coloradan by a federal agent during an immigration-enforcement action in Minneapolis. It’s the latest leverage point for the political fringe, nationwide and in Colorado. And it’s getting plenty of news coverage, also predictably. Along the Front…
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EDITORIAL: Let Colorado law officers hand criminals to ICE
Even a progressive Democrat like Gov. Jared Polis has acknowledged the need to help federal authorities rein in the criminal element among our state’s substantial population of illegal immigrants. After all, Polis realizes the public is fed up. Yet, his fellow ruling Democrats in Colorado’s legislature just don’t get it. For them, deporting violent criminals…