Tag: border
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Fort Carson soldiers secured Southern Border, amid decline in immigration
When President Trump dispatched Fort Carson troops to help secure more than 1,000 miles of mostly rugged and remote terrain along the Southern Border this spring, the flow of migrants northward had already fallen off steeply. The soldiers’ job was to seal the border completely, a mission they tackled with an array of tools, such…
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Critics blast Colorado Springs’ migrant response plan as vague
A document about undocumented immigrant response that the Pikes Peak Regional Office of Emergency Management presented to Colorado Springs City Council last week created confusion and elicited criticism from some elected officials who characterized it as short-sighted. “I am quite frankly shocked that this was supposedly months of planning. … There is no plan. There is…
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Immigrants pose ‘difficult dilemma’ for Denver Health, justices draw line on fines against firm-switching lawyers | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Today is Jan. 16, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: Denver Health – the city’s hospital safety net – saw $10 million in additional “uncompensated care” in the last year, which the health system attributed to the tens of thousands of medical visits from immigrant patients from South and Central America. The rise…
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Trump wins Iowa caucuses, DeSantis edges Haley; Denver mayor goes to DC to plead for action on illegal immigration | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Today is Jan. 15, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: Former President Donald Trump scored a record-setting win in the Iowa caucuses on Monday with his rivals languishing far behind, a victory that sent a resounding message that the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination is his to lose. Trump was on track to set…
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Busload of migrants arrives in Denver
A group of asylum-seeking migrants was bussed to Denver early Friday morning. The group consisted of individuals from Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador and Nicaragua.
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Fentanyl Family: Inside Colorado’s deadly overdose siege
Starting in late 2016, Bruce Holder and his wife began smuggling thousands of fentanyl-laced pills over the border, through a quiet border station in Lukeville, Arizona. In the coming years, the family-turned-drug network would dominate the early fentanyl trade in western Colorado. Fentanyl has killed more than 1,600 Coloradans and tens of thousands of Americans…