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Jesus has worked in Uncompahgre Valley farm fields like these for over four decades. He still does not have U.S. citizenship. Western Colorado, Aug. 25, 2025. Photo by Luna Anna Archey / Special to The Colorado Trust 

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.

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