Colorado mayor’s sympathy for immigrants costs him his job - Tom Selders spoke out against a raid at a meatpacking plant, and the town spoke in the voting booth by turning him out of office. - Greeley, Colorado

Tom Selders is still baffled at how quickly the city he served for years turned on him.

The two-term mayor of this conservative farm town had been a political fixture for nearly two decades. A businessman who prided himself on bringing efficiency to city government, Selders infuriated his constituents after jumping into the national debate over illegal immigration. In May he spoke at an open forum in Washington about the effects of last year’s immigration raid on a meatpacking plant here, which led to the detention of 262 undocumented workers.”*

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