EDWARDS, Colo. — Colorado’s mountain resort towns would grind to a halt without immigrant labor, and Elizabeth Velasco – a state lawmaker who moved from Mexico to the mobile homes of Eagle County at age 12 – is fighting to make sure the constitutional rights of those workers and families are upheld by state law as the Trump administration pushes for mass deportations.
A Western Slope Republican statehouse candidate who posted a racist cartoon on Facebook initially stood by his decision to share the image. A few minutes later, he called back to say he had reconsidered and would update his post with an apology, which he did, while also claiming that he “didn’t notice the ethnicities” of the people when originally posting the cartoon.
