Immigration fever puts parties in the hot seat. Colorado

“Rachel Olivarez-Sellers doesn’t bring up immigration anymore as she crisscrosses Colorado trying to reach out to new Hispanic voters. It’s just too complicated.

It’s not that she doesn’t have strong views. After taking over the state Democratic Party’s Latino Initiative last year, Olivarez-Sellers helped push the party to take a formal position against a proposed ballot measure that would have denied illegal immigrants non-emergency public services.

But in some of Colorado’s 64 far-flung counties, she finds local Democrats split on the issue. So are the Hispanic voters she encounters.”

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