Coloradans for Immigrant Rights

Más de cien personas asistieron a la vigilia Unitaria Universalista orando por Renovación y Acción sobre Inmigración

Miembros de la comunidad y de congregaciones se unieron para demostrar que están del lado del amor.

 

Vigil at Immigrant Detention Center

Jennifer Piper and clergy 8-1-11

Jennifer Piper and clergy 8-1-11

At right, Jennifer Piper, AFSC Colorado Interfaith Organzing Director, visits with clergy Anne Dunlap at the August 1, 2011 vigil outside the GEO immigrant detention center in Aurora, Colorado.

Monday, April 2, 2012 - 6:00pm

Protest incarcerating innocent people for profit. For more information, please contact Jennifer Piper, AFSC Colorado Interfaith Organizing Director, at jpiper@afsc.org  or call 303.623.3464.

Citizen Privilege and Ally Basics

A two-page primer on citizenship privilege and immigrant ally basics from Coloradoans for Immigrant Rights, a project of AFSC Colorado.

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Immigration enforcement goes rogue in Colorado

Quaker calls for reform, not deportations, in Colorado

Quaker calls for reform, not deportations, in Colorado

Judy Danielson, a Colorado Quaker, joins the March 5, 2012 vigil outside the GEO immigrant detention center in Aurora, Colorado.

ICE Steps Up Presence at the Aurora, Colorado Jail, Requests Summons Data; Surge in Detention and Deportation Expected

Community and faith groups demand an end to ICE’s rogue tactics

Legislative Visits Training

Saturday, January 21, 2012 - 10:00am

Coloradans For Immigrant Rights, a project of AFSC, offers a "Bringing the People to the Policy" Legislative Visits Training at AFSC's office in Denver. Come practice SUCCESSFUL & fruitful meetings with your legislators! Take some time to practice your talking points among friends!

Reflections on Flawed Drug and Immigration Policies

Art Way

Art Way is Drug Policy Manager for the Drug Policy Alliance

Art Way is Drug Policy Manager for the Drug Policy Alliance.

By Gabriela Flora, AFSC Regional Project Voice Organizer

The criminalization of immigrants continues to reach new heights and enforcement programs expand and justify themselves in the mainstream by saying they are going after “criminals.” Members of Coloradoans for Immigrant Rights, a project of AFSC, have been having some intense discussion on challenging this view that it is ok to target and deport people labeled as “criminals.”

Record deportations point to loss of moral compass

Gabriela Flora 8-1-11

Gabriela Flora of AFSC addresses a rally outside the immigrant detention center.

Gabriela Flora, AFSC Regional Project Voice Organizer, addresses a crowd of 150 people outside the GEO immigrant detention center in Aurora, Colorado on August 1, 2011.

October 18, 2011 - Today the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced they deported more people from the United States during Fiscal Year 2011 than ever before. Nearly 400,000 migrant workers were removed from our communities across the United States, the largest number in the agency’s history.

Immigrant detention center vigil in Aurora, CO

Jennifer Piper and clergy 8-1-11

Jennifer Piper and clergy 8-1-11

At right, Jennifer Piper, AFSC Colorado Interfaith Organzing Director, visits with clergy Anne Dunlap at the August 1, 2011 vigil outside the GEO immigrant detention center in Aurora, Colorado.

Monday, November 7, 2011 - 6:00pm

Immigrant detention center vigil will start at the Northwest corner of 30th Avenue and Peoria Street in Aurora. ICE just renewed and expanded its contract with for-profit detention corporation GEO. The contract is for ten years and expands the number of people ICE will be detaining from 432 to 525. $23 million more taxpayer dollars will go to GEO each year. The move comes despite the Obama administration’s repeated commitments to limit the use of detention and the Colorado community’s clear demands over the last 3 years to close GEO.

Coloradoans Celebrate AFSC's Work

Arnie Carter and Alejandro at Colorado APG 9-17-11

Arnie Carter and Alejandro at Colorado APG 9-17-11

Arnie Carter, at right, performs with the Romero Theatre Troupe at AFSC Colorado's Annual Public Gathering on September 17, 2011.

By Arnie Carter, AFSC volunteer

I am a very fortunate guy, because I work with both the Romero theater troupe and I am on the Area Program Committee  of AFSC here in Denver. This past Saturday, September 17, these two groups intersected at the 2011 AFSC Annual Public Gathering here in Denver. One of the highlights of the gathering is the Jack Gore Memorial Peace Award, given this year to Paula VanDusen and Linda Smoke (see below for more info).

Vigil in Solidarity with Detained Immigrants

Jennifer Piper and clergy 8-1-11

Jennifer Piper and clergy 8-1-11

At right, Jennifer Piper, AFSC Colorado Interfaith Organzing Director, visits with clergy Anne Dunlap at the August 1, 2011 vigil outside the GEO immigrant detention center in Aurora, Colorado.

Monday, October 3, 2011 - 6:00pm

Did you know...very close to your own home, thousands of hard working immigrant mothers, fathers, students and community members are detained every year? For more information, please contact Piper at jpiper@afsc.org or 303.623.3464 ext. 5.

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