Connie Garcia grew up in Weld County. She knows its people intimately. So she was a little uneasy as she prepared to canvass the small town of Hudson with flyers last Saturday.

She worried she and other activists would encounter angry MAGA Republicans who wouldn’t agree with their opposition to a possible new immigration detention facility. They carried leaflets with a blunt message: “No concentration camps in Colorado.”

“They’re gonna get some pushback,” she said. “It’s as red as you can get out here.”

About a dozen people set off in teams to deliver the leaflets to homes and businesses. They were part of a coalition that has been trying to build resistance to new detention centers in the state.

In July, the ACLU released documents that showed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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