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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.

Potential changes that could take place under the new Trump administration have many concerned. Immigration advocacy groups are holding meetings and discussing ways to mobilize and respond to the potential of “mass deportations.”

“Mass deportation” of undocumented immigrants is a concept presidential candidate Donald Trump is proposing. But it’s getting significant pushback as economists look at the detrimental effects losing such a large part of the workforce could have. Advocates say a better solution would be to overhaul the current work visa process.

The Mexican government has opened an office in Teton County to help people from Tlaxcala with immigration and reunite families across borders.

A new nonprofit, the Wyoming Immigrant Advocacy Project, will offer assistance to the growing community in Teton County.

Immigration lawyers are hard to come by in Wyoming and that can make an already long and complex process even more daunting. However, the University of Wyoming’s Civil Legal Services Clinic is looking to fix that issue with a new initiative. Ana Rodriguez is a second-year law student and the mind behind the event. Rodriguez noticed that many of the people coming to the event for help had questions about immigration, which is when she realized that there was a lack of immigration attorneys in the state.

The University of Wyoming’s Civil Legal Services Clinic offers pro-bono legal services to those who can’t afford them. On August 3rd, the clinic will host a day of free workshops to help community members with the legalities of immigration. There will also be volunteer attorneys available to answer quick questions.

The U.S. Customs and Immigration Service is proposing to boost fees to process and copy immigration files from the end of the 19th century through the beginning of the 20th century. That could affect family research on people held at Japanese-American internment camps in the Mountain West during World War II.

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.

Around the state, businesses are either limiting their hours or closing all together because they can't hire enough employees. This comes as the northwest region is seeing a record number of tourists. Wyoming Public Radio's Kamila Kudelska looks at the problem in Cody.