Deportation Fears Add to Mental Health Problems Confronting Colorado Resort Town Workers

Deportation Fears Add to Mental Health Problems Confronting Colorado Resort Town Workers

SILVERTHORNE, Colo. — When Adolfo Román García-Ramírez walks home in the evening from his shift at a grocery store in this central Colorado mountain town, sometimes he thinks back on his childhood in Nicaragua. Adults, he recollects, would scare the kids with tales of the “Mona Bruja,” or “Monkey Witch.” Step too far into the dark, they told him, and you might just get snatched up by the giant monstrous monkey who lives in the shadows. Now, when…

Decorated Army soldier with felony conviction back in Colorado after Venezuela refuses to take him

This weekend, a decorated Colorado Army veteran who is also a convicted felon's criss-crossed deportation trail ended up where it began.

U.S. Army veteran who became a Central Illinois judge retires from the bench | Illinois State Bar Association

U.S. Army veteran who became a Central Illinois judge retires from the benchA Central Illinois judge admired for his compassion and understanding of military veterans who came before him in criminal court is retiring from the bench. Associate Judge William Workman is himself a U.S. Army veteran and became the presiding judge of the 11th Judicial Circuit Veterans’ Treatment Court. Source: 25 News Now