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In two close votes on January 25, Aurora City Council rejected ordinances that would have bolstered protections for undocumented immigrants in Colorado s third-largest city and created an immigrant legal defense fund for its residents. For the past month that this has been brought up, I’ve been getting phone calls from people saying that just because I’m not supportive of this particular ordinance, I’m not supportive of the immigrant community, said Councilmember Angela Lawson, the lone politically unaffiliated member of Aurora City Council, as she pushed back against that criticism before saying that she d vote against both proposals at the January 25 council meeting.
In a flurry of unprecedented first-day activity Wednesday, President Joe Biden issued more than a dozen executive actions intended to kick-start an aggressive plan to tame the year-old pandemic that
Now Democratic lawmakers in the legislature plan to introduce a measure in the next session that would officially limit information-sharing between the state and federal agencies, especially in matters involving immigration. There s definitely a need for more protections, says Representative Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez, a Democrat who represents parts of west Denver. It s about protecting information of undocumented folks, of immigrants, [and ensuring] that our state agencies are not sharing that information inappropriately with ICE and other types of entities.
To determine how many requests the feds had made,
Westword obtained the State of Colorado reports generated in relation to Polis s guidance memo from June 20 through October 15 of the past year.