Tag: ice
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U2’s new music honors Renee Good in ‘American Obituary’
LOS ANGELES — U2 is returning with its first collection of new songs in nearly a decade, opening with a tribute to Renee Nicole Good, the Minnesota mom and Colorado Springs native fatally shot by a federal agent during this winter’s massive immigration crackdown. The Irish rock band released the six-song EP “U2 – Days of Ash” on Wednesday. Its…
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Xtreme International Ice Racing slides into The Broadmoor World Arena
Studded tires, roaring engines and zero room for error. This is racing, only with a frigid twist. That’s because of the surface. It’s not pavement, and it’s not dirt. Xtreme International Ice Racing boasts the slickest surface, and that should make for intense action. Round 5 of the fierce competition comes to Colorado Springs this…
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Cripple Creek Ice Festival will transform busy street into a frozen art gallery
Some art endures for centuries, seemingly frozen in time. Then there is the art at Cripple Creek Ice Festival: actually frozen, but only for a few days. When your medium is a 300-pound block of ice, time is not on your side. And neither is the sun. But the six professional carving teams traveling to…
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Protesters storming a church in Minnesota draw firm responses in Colorado Springs
A couple of weeks after a group of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters in St. Paul, Minn., unexpectedly interrupted Sunday worship to the point that the Southern Baptist-affiliated Cities Church called off the remainder of its service, and with at least seven people facing federal charges as of Friday for “conspiracy to deprive rights”…
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Several Colorado Springs businesses join nationwide ‘ICE Out’ strike
Some businesses in Colorado Springs joined a collective action called for across the country on Friday for an “ICE Out of Everywhere National Day of Action.” The group 50501 called for “no work, no school, no shopping” locally in response to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. It comes a week after a general strike in…
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Colorado Springs experiences ‘weather whiplash’ as arctic blast sweeps through Pikes Peak region
Colorado Springs experienced a case of weather whiplash over the weekend as an arctic air mass swept through the Pikes Peak region, interrupting what has been, for the most part, an unseasonably warm January. The city saw frigid, single-digit temperatures and a steady cascade of light, dry snow throughout the weekend, making for slick, icy…
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Hundreds gather at Colorado Springs City Hall to protest second deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis
The second deadly shooting of a U.S. citizen by federal agents in Minnesota brought hundreds of protesters to the steps of City Hall in Colorado Springs on Sunday despite below-freezing temperatures and steady snowfall. Coordinated by the Colorado Springs Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, 50501 and other activist groups, the protest was in response…
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Fort Carson soldier’s wife could be deported
As the country’s largest immigration enforcement crackdown continues in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, a Fort Carson sergeant is fighting a personal immigration crisis — one that may implode his family. Sgt. Tyler Garza’s wife, Jennifer Maradiaga Baca, is not a legal U.S. citizen and an immigration judge’s 15-year-old deportation order from 2011 hangs over her head.…
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Court rules against Colorado Rep. Jason Crow, other Democrats in ICE visitation policy challenge
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WASHINGTON • A federal judge refused Monday to temporarily block the Trump administration from enforcing a new policy requiring a week’s notice before members of Congress can visit immigration detention facilities. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, who is based in Washington, D.C., concluded that the Department of Homeland Security didn’t violate an earlier court order when it reimposed…
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As ICE arrests rise in the U.S., one detainee was eager to leave the country
Marivel Azpeitia was driving from their home in Colorado Springs to Dallas with her fiancé to pick up her stepchildren for Christmas when the pair was pulled over by Texas law enforcement. It would be some of the last moments Azpeitia would see her fiancé, Edwin Euceda-Rios, on U.S. soil. It would also be the beginning of weeks of alleged…