Jennifer Piper – West Region program director for the American Friends Service Committee – cited a series of so-called “show your papers” laws passed in Colorado between 2006 to 2013, which led to some of the highest deportation numbers in the nation. “Here in Colorado, we already know what the policies of mass deportation look like intimately,” said Piper. “And what we found is our businesses suffered, our schools suffered, our kids suffered.”