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Colorado Reacts To The President's New Immigration Policy

KUNC
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. KUNC’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 KUNC. 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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