If fewer legal immigrants allowed in, could Colorado?s recovery be hurt?

More Colorado jobs, as many as 43,000, could be created in 2005, economic experts from around the state predict.

As those jobs do appear, it will boost the size of the state?s labor force as more people start to compete for work again, many re-entering the ranks of job-seekers after frustrating months of sitting on the sidelines, watching their unemployment benefits expire.

But there?s a worrisome twist in the numbers that emerged from the annual Colorado Business Economic Outlook organized by the Business Research Division at the University of Colorado?s Leeds School of Business.

It?s well recognized that Colorado?s economic boom in…