Has Trump era made immigrants’ lives more difficult? Longtime Coloradans and more recent arrivals weigh in

Has Trump era made immigrants’ lives more difficult? Longtime Coloradans and more recent arrivals weigh in

As a Colorado state lawmaker, Naquetta Ricks has fought hostile narratives about immigrants — that they take advantage of public money, that they’re largely criminals, that they belong to gangs. “I’m upset,” said Ricks, who arrived in the United States from Liberia more than three decades ago, in a recent interview. “You never hear about the positive aspects of what immigrants bring — what we contribute as far as tax dollars, as far as labor, as…