The complaint, filed by three organizations, calls for an investigation and reforms at the holding facility.
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Laura Pritchett: Nonprofits are stepping up to help migrants. But we need a plan.
Columnist Laura Pritchett writes that desperate conditions drive migrants to Colorado. Until we can agree on long-term solutions, a concerted effort to ease their arrival only makes sense.
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Opinion: There’s a more humane solution than detention to the humanitarian crisis at the border
Case management is more effective and less expensive than warehousing asylum seekers, and CoCase management is more effective and less expensive than warehousing asylum seekers, and Colorado has an opportunity to signal its support.
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Littwin: Polis’ charter-bus operation has ended, but that doesn’t mean migrant issue has gone away
Mike Littwin writes that after Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’ bad-optics migrant bus strategy,, and Congress’ failure on immigration reform, let’s hope Joe Biden can do more to help cities cope.
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Opinion: An offense against national sovereignty
Our outdated immigration system is stressing resources, while the U.S. budget throws money everywhere except at border security
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Denver announces 14-day shelter limit for migrants as Colorado governor stops busing them to other states
Jared Polis was criticized by fellow Democratic mayors of Chicago and New York City for sending migrants on chartered buses
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Carman: Canada offers a road map to solving the global — and the local — immigration crisis
Canada sees immigration as part of the solution to labor market shortages and a step toward building a stronger economy
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Opinion: Workplace justice and immigration enforcement should not be mixed
Wage theft is illegal. But it can be nigh impossible to enforce when the threat of deportation looms.
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Littwin: Like other cities, Denver has a migrant crisis that only an unwilling Congress can fix
Federal funds can help in the short term, but without GOP-blocked immigration reform, nothing will really change
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Opinion: The silence of our senators over Title 42 is worrisome
During the past decade, a human infrastructure of hospitality and care has been built in Colorado. Faith leaders, civic groups and individual volunteers have organized to host asylum seekers and those seeking refuge in our communities – people arriving at the southern border, people coming out of detention centers, Afghan people, and soon, Ukrainian people. […]