The 2026 Colorado Legislative Session ended on May 13. For Latino communities, it was a session defined by missed opportunities, weakened bills, and political decisions that fell short of what families needed. Voces Unidas Action Fund was deeply engaged this session, focused on worker protections, immigrant protections and law enforcement accountability, housing stability, mobile home park protections, climate resilience, and environmental justice. These priorities came direc

When she got a call from her husband, less than an hour after he left home for work, he told her he had been detained by ICE. She didn’t believe him. “I thought he was joking with me,” the wife said. “I told him to stop lying.” It was later that morning, after a trusted friend had checked the area and accompanied her to pick up his car a few blocks from their Rifle home, that it finally hit her. “I felt like he had died,” she said. “To see his truck and all his things abando

New public data from ICE offers a look at the scope of enforcement efforts in Colorado, including the Western Slope. While not perfect, this data provides our best available insight into the impact of these operations. The data comes from the Deportation Data Project at UC Berkeley School of Law, which obtained internal ICE records through public records litigation against the federal government. For the Western Slope, the data shows that at least 541 people with a connectio