Last year, paid signature gatherers were found to be misleading voters in left-leaning areas of Colorado while canvassing for Initiative 95, a proposed constitutional amendment that would force local law enforcement to work more closely with ICE. Now, a leader of the conservative dark money group that created Initiative 95 is citing those deceptively gathered signatures as an indicator of support from the left.
As public outcry against ICE rises following the shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, a Colorado sheriff and prominent Republican in the state fears that the public’s perception of the way ICE officers are conducting themselves could hurt the reputation of local police and sheriff’s departments like his own.
Many of the conservatives who warned me my entire life about the coming of the "jackbooted thugs" now stand on the sidelines and cheer as federal agents murder citizens in cold blood in the streets of America.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in the town of Hudson on Wednesday in a demonstration against plans to open a new immigrant detention center in the rural community 30 miles northeast of Denver. While those in attendance made their opposition to the facility clear, many wondered why the state’s leaders haven’t joined them in speaking out.
In the wake of Renee Good’s death at the hands of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, many have taken the opportunity to join protests and rallies, expressing their condemnation of the actions of masked immigration enforcement agents across the country.
Parents, students, and faculty of the Thomas MacLaren School held a press conference in Colorado Springs yesterday asking for the release of the Soliman family — Hayam El-Gamal and her five children, aged 18 to five — from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention.
Ten days after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, several hundred protesters gathered in Denver on the steps of the state Capitol on Saturday to express their outrage at the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda, and the violent tactics being used by officers to carry it out.
Last week communities across Colorado took to the streets in shock, grief, and outrage over the shooting of Renee Good by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Officer Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis on Jan. 7. Democratic members of Colorado’s federal delegation were quick to post on social media in response to Good’s death.
On January 7 in Minneapolis, a 37-year-old mother named Renee Nicole Good was executed in broad daylight by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent named Jonathan Ross. Her children, who had already lost their father, were orphaned when Ross fired three rounds into Good’s SUV and body. In the five days since her killing, I am not sure what has disturbed me more: the footage itself, which from every angle shows an unjust execution, or the hordes of sociopaths celebrating it online.
Signature gatherers outside of grocery stores and other public spaces are a common sight in the year before an election — but can you trust what circulators tell you?
