August 19, 2011
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The Denver Post
Immigration supporters in Colorado reacted with excitement and cautious optimism Thursday following the Obama administration's announcement that deportation cases will be dismissed for undocumented students and other low-priority immigration offenders.
"It is a sign of the times," said Julien Ross, executive director of the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition. "We've been living with harsh immigration enforcement and an increase in (deportations) the last couple of years. The question is, will this be followed?"
For others, like Kristee Paschall, political director at Metro Organizations for People, an organization that aims to bring communities together, the news was just exciting.
"We are taking it in good faith," Paschall said. "There are dozens of families that have been affected locally in recent months, and this is great news for them."
There is no estimate of how many of the more than 300,000 deportation cases currently being reviewed involve immigrants in Colorado.
