Jesus gripped his wife’s hand tightly. He is a big man, and brawny from 45 years of laboring in farm fields in the Uncompahgre Valley.

But now he was frightened as never before. He wiped tears from his eyes and, through a Spanish interpreter, expressed embarrassment at showing such emotion.

“I never cry,” he said while dabbing at his eyes with the paper towel his wife had handed him.

His tears were brought on by his daughter’s sobbing story of her fears about the immigration crackdown playing out in Colorado and across the country.

Cristal, 19, recounted how she tries to keep her parents at home in their small mobile home next to the bean and barley fields her father tends. She does the grocery shopping and runs errands. She takes her younger brother and sister to school and medical ap

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