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Surge from the south


Illegal immigration poses as many questions as it does problems


By Alex Miller
Vail correspondent
December 19, 2005

To explore the dilemma surrounding immigrants in Colorado, newspapers from Colorado Mountain News Media and the Greeley Tribune created a series of stories that will run each Monday for the next eight weeks. The series was planned and coordinated by the Vail Daily. Correspondents reported from the resort areas of Vail, Aspen and Breckenridge, to the bedroom communities of the Roaring Fork Valley and the agricultural city of Greeley. Another writer spent time in northern Mexico, visiting the towns from which many of Colorado's immigrants originate.

America, we often remind ourselves, is a nation of immigrants. And Colorado, as much as any other state, was settled mostly by newcomers to the U.S., as well as those from other parts of the country.

But when it comes to reconciling that fact with the current wave of immigration â€â€