Colorado candidate's town shapes immigration view
YUMA, Colo. (AP) — Andrea Hermosillo rode for hours to protest at her neighbor's office.
The high school junior lives only a few blocks from GOP Senate candidate Cory Gardner in Yuma, a small town on Colorado's high plains.
But this summer, Hermosillo went to the congressman's main office, in a city closer to Denver in Gardner's sprawling eastern Colorado district, for a sit-in to demand that he support granting citizenship to many of the 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally.
"It was kind of weird, but it felt we had to be there," Hermosillo said. "It's important he know that it's people in his town who feel this way." ...