Did You Know + Colorado Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

July 28, 2008

Latinos make up 20 percent of Colorado’s population and 12 percent of its eligible voters – not a huge number but enough to tilt the balance in either Obama or McCain’s favor.

April 15, 2008

Did You Know? The Colorado Civil Rights Division says Boulder County is the second-hardest place in the country for Hispanics to get a fair home loan. – Cambridge, Mass. was #1

February 5, 2008

Did You Know? Nearly 12 percent of Colorado’s electorate is Hispanic

January 23, 2008

Did You Know? In 2006, Colorado passed tough new laws designed to deny public services to undocumented immigrants. In the first year, state departments spent $2 million implementing the laws. How many people did they catch? None.

January 22, 2008

Did You Know? Under pressure to crack down on illegal immigrants, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency is expanding its Colorado Springs office from two agents to 10.

October 30, 2007

Did You Know? Nearly, two-thirds of all babies born to Colorado teen mothers between the ages of 15-17 were to Latina girls. And the rate since 2001 is climbing. Most troubling is the fertility rate of 13 to 14-year-old Latina adolescents is double that of any other race/ethnicity group and significantly higher in all other age groups.

August 10, 2007

Did You Know? A total of 21,780 Latinos are estimated to have moved to Denver or were born here from 2000 to 2006, and a third of them – 7,260 – are just 4 and younger

April 8, 2007

Did You Know? Four out of five of Denver’s 14,000 gang members are Hispanic, according to one estimate from the Gang Rescue and Support Project.