Immigrants

The state predicts that the Covering All Coloradans program will cost Colorado $104.5 million in the fiscal year that began July 1. Nonpartisan fiscal analysts estimated the cost would be $14.7 million.

Lawyers for immigrants allege officers are violating a court order limiting how they can arrest people.

The tussle in Colorado over so-called warrantless arrests started last year when ACLU lawyers filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security.

Attorneys and workers' rights advocates shared their thoughts following federal penalties on three businesses for not protecting workers who died at a Northern Colorado dairy last year.

Last week, union members at the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley voted overwhelmingly to go on strike. They’re doing so to ask for safer working conditions. It’s happening at a moment of uncertainty for many of the workers who are refugees and not U.S. citizens. We dig into the backstory.

The bills were in the works before Alex Pretti and Renee Good were killed in Minnesota last month. But their deaths and the scale of the immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities have delivered new urgency.

“It’s already come here. We’ve already seen the violence,” a Durango immigrant rights advocate says.

A man who fled Afghanistan and settled in Colorado after helping the U.S. military fight the Taliban was arrested in an immigration sweep targeting truck drivers on Oct. 10. He’s been held in ICE detention ever since, without being charged with a crime. Hear what happened – and how it’s affecting his family in Boulder County.

As the federal government shutdown continues, Republican lawmakers keep saying Democrats shut down the government to give “illegals” access to government-funded health care. Democrats say that’s a lie. It’s complicated.

President Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum, as well as increased immigration enforcement, are having ripple effects in the state’s construction industry.