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Congress wrestles with immigration reform

Community News and NotesSolutions range from amnesty to deportation


By Lindsay Renick Mayer
Washington D.C. Correspondent
February 6, 2006

WASHINGTON — This legislative session, the Colorado congressional delegation is working with the rest of Congress to decide the fate of several bills that typify the extreme range of ideas for dealing with the immigrants flowing into the United States every year. All would drastically change the nature of immigration in a country that was founded on it.

Congress’ varying degrees of political responses to immigration — close the border, open the border, give illegal immigrants amnesty, send them all home — are reflected among the Colorado delegates.

“I think Colorado is sort of a microcosm of the country because our senators and representatives are on both ends of the political spectrum,â€