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John Fabbricatore details ICE detainee process as state pushes back against federal enforcement

DENVER (KDVR) — FOX31 is learning that 105 people were detained at an underground nightclub bust in Colorado Springs over the weekend. That’s down from the original reported count of 114.

The Drug Enforcement Administration said nine people had previous contact with immigration officials.

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Final boarding call: Real ID enforcement begins for U.S. air travel May 7

DENVER (KDVR) — The countdown is on for Colorado travelers. On May 7, passengers will need a Real ID symbol on their driver’s license or other form of acceptable identification to get through airport security.

Those without proper identification may face delays, additional screening and may not be allowed into the security checkpoint.

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Joondeph: Trump Could Put Hillary Clinton in Charge of Immigration

Watching legacy media might give one the impression that President Donald Trump is cleaning house, deporting the tens of millions of illegal aliens allowed into America during the terms of all recent past presidents.

And that border czar Tom Homan is leading a scorched earth effort to round up each and every illegal alien and send them packing.

At least that’s the perception one might have by watching network or cable news.

What is the reality? How are Trump’s “massive” and “unprecedented” deportations going?

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Federal prosecutors charge two Ukrainian nationals with illegally voting in US Presidential Election

Federal prosecutors have charged two Ukrainian nationals with unlawfully voting in an American presidential election, the latest case of non-citizens allegedly participating in federal elections.

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Colorado braces for special session over bloated Medicaid spending amid federal pressure

There are now only seven days left in Colorado’s legislative session. But lawmakers and other state officials have for weeks been bracing for the possibility of coming back to the Capitol later this year to deal with potential federal cuts to Medicaid likely to be included in Congressional Republicans’ still-being-written budget proposal.

“There certainly are a lot of indicators that would suggest that we might end up having to come back in the event that there’s a dramatic cut to Medicaid,” state Sen. Judy Amabile, a Boulder Democrat and member of the legislature’s Joint Budget Committee, said last month, as first reported in The Colorado Sun’s politics newsletter, The Unaffiliated.

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