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To ensure noncitizens are included in vaccine drive, Colorado won’t check IDs
State health department is already using the honor system to vaccinate people age 70 and older and warns 459 health providers if they demand ID, they could lose access to vaccine.
The 25 most-read Colorado Sun guest opinion pieces of 2020
Our contributors weigh in on issues facing Colorado; here are the essays that drew the most readers
On Edge: With family missing in Ethiopia’s civil war, Denver woman says her “mind is the hardest place to be”
The anxieties of 2020 in the U.S. amplified in November, when Millete Birhanemaskel's family members went missing when their home region was bombed by the Ethiopian government.
Eight months into coronavirus, an immigrant community in Colorado finds hardship and hope
The coronavirus has killed people in immigrant communities and communities of color at much higher rates than the general public, and left many out of work
Contact tracing in Colorado immigrant communities is most effective with voices from within
Long-standing health care disparities, job insecurity, immigration status, language barriers and a profound distrust of government all complicate the already tricky task
Colorado lawmakers’ coronavirus aid plans include distributing $22.5 million in taxpayer money through nonprofits
Democrats claim that sending the money through non-governmental organizations will ensure it is distributed quickly. Republicans worry about plans to send aid to people living in the U.S. illegally.
Supreme Court seems skeptical of Trump’s plan to exclude noncitizens from the census
No president has tried to do what Trump outlined in a memo in July: remove millions of noncitizens from the once-a-decade head count of the U.S. population.
“We’ll never do as much as he did”: Immigrant meatpacker in Greeley who died from coronavirus left legacy of compassion
Saul Sanchez spent decades working alongside other immigrants and refugees at a JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley that would become a coronavirus hotspot
Colorado, two other states pass amendments clarifying that “only citizens” can vote
A Florida-based organization called Citizen Voters, Inc., funded a majority of the state campaigns for these amendments — including $1.4 million towards Colorado's efforts
Denver lands CARNE y ARENA, a powerful immersive, virtual reality experience about refugees
Filmmaker Alejandro Iñárritu collected the stories of refugees and guards, using VR goggles to share the very real anguish and terror of surreptitious crossings of the southern border
17-year-olds would no longer be able to vote in Colorado primaries if ballot question passes
Amendment 76 will ask voters in November to specify that only U.S. citizens age 18 and older are eligible to participate in Colorado elections
Trump’s ban on visa workers breathes new life into college-age ski bumming in Colorado’s resort towns
Ski area operators are reporting a surge in applications from college students and locals as hiring strategies, operational plans shift in the pandemic.
Castle Rock man charged alongside ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon in border wall fundraising scheme
Timothy Shea, of Castle Rock, is expected to appear before a federal judge Thursday in Colorado
Federal court rules not all Colorado drug convictions can lead to deportation, prevent green card approval
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeal sided with an immigrant from the Bahamas who has been in the country for decades. His attorneys hope the case will help hundreds of others remain in the U.S.
Colorado joins 16 other states in suing Trump administration over international student visa rule
The lawsuit said the policy change "leaves colleges and universities with an agonizing dilemma"
Once a centrist, Andrew Romanoff’s sharp turn to the left raises questions in U.S. Senate primary
The former Colorado lawmaker once led a group that pushed for tough-on-crime policies and limited government
