immigrant families

Immigrants without legal status make up a large part of the workers in several industries and have a combined household income of almost $27 billion dollars in the Mountain West. The consequences could be dire if those workers were sent out of the country.

An Idaho sheriff and leader of a national law enforcement organization is raising his hand to help the feds crack down on illegal immigration. But in Colorado, lawmakers are working to bolster laws that prohibit such collaboration.

There’s been a lot of talk from President-elect Donald Trump and other elected officials about plans to deport large numbers of undocumented immigrants from the U.S. That’s left many people scared, especially those who have deep roots in the country and have built lives, businesses and had children born here.

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to cut down on immigration and ramp up deportations once he’s in office. While it remains to be seen how these plans will play out, advocates in Teton County are bracing for changes.

On an early December afternoon, grandkids, parents and grandparents huddled together in the waiting area near a Christmas tree in the Jackson Hole Airport. They were just outside of the security line taking the last minutes to spend time with each other before some of them boarded.

In her new book Girlhood in the Borderlands, associate UW professor Lilia Soto takes a deep look at the lives of teenage girls who grow up living between…