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Colorado Reacts To The President's New Immigration Policy

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Colorado's Capitol Building

Immigrant rights groups in Colorado say they hope President Barack Obama’s  deferred deportation executive order will have an impact on local policies, such as efforts to pass a new tuition category for certain illegal immigrant students.

Immigrants are also bracing for the new federal program and figuring out what they'll need in order to apply. »Ê¹ÚÍøÖ·â€™s Bente Birkeland has more from the state capitol.

Bente Birkeland is an award-winning journalist who joined Colorado Public Radio in August 2018 after a decade of reporting on the Colorado state capitol for the Rocky Mountain Community Radio collaborative and »Ê¹ÚÍøÖ·. In 2017, Bente was named Colorado Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), and she was awarded with a National Investigative Reporting Award by SPJ a year later.
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