Tag: immigration
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Immigration reporting measure fuels debate over Colorado’s role with ICE
A coalition of advocacy groups and several district attorneys rallied outside the Colorado Capitol on Thursday to oppose a ballot measure that, if approved by voters in November, would require state and local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Backed by Advance Colorado, Proposition 81 would require local law enforcement agencies to notify…
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Teaching youth about both sides of U.S. Immigration | Rachel Stovall
Hundreds of Colorado Springs students walked out of school Friday to protest ICE. I’m not going to debate their decision to protest. But if we are teaching young students to protest government power, are we teaching them enough to understand the consequences on both sides of the policy they are protesting? Because not far from…
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Colorado judge explores sanctions against DOJ, ICE for rearresting man 4 days after release on bond
A federal judge in Colorado is considering sanctions against the government after immigration agents rearrested a man four days after an immigration judge found him suitable for release on bond. On July 28, U.S. Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter ordered the release of Feliciano Paulino Soares after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him in…
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Federal judge rules that request for bond hearing not necessary to challenge immigration detention
A federal judge in Colorado ruled last week that it is not mandatory for a person to seek a bond hearing with an immigration judge before they challenge the lawfulness of their detention in federal court. For the past year, Colorado’s U.S. District Court has faced a flood of “habeas corpus” petitions from those in immigration detention.…
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Federal judges find Colorado immigration judge violated several orders
Multiple federal judges in Colorado have freed people from immigration custody after determining that one immigration judge violated their directives for properly conducting bond hearings. For nearly a year, Colorado’s U.S. District Court has faced a flood of habeas corpus petitions from those in immigration detention. The most common allegation is that the government is improperly…
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Small Colorado town grapples with ICE detention center opening
Thirty miles northeast of downtown Denver — where the Front Range loosens its grip, subdivisions give way to open fields and pickups outnumber Teslas — is the town of Hudson. Population 1,652. Hudson still feels like the kind of place where everybody knows the restaurant they’ll meet at for dinner. But it’s not at the…
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DOJ sues Colorado to overturn in‑state tuition for students living in the country illegally
The U.S. Department of Justice has sued Colorado to dismantle a decade‑old law that grants in‑state tuition to students living illegally in the United States, setting up a high‑stakes clash over immigration policy. In 2013, after more than six tries in a decade, Colorado legislators passed Senate Bill 33, also known as the ASSET Act,…
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Federal agents arrest passenger as she boards flight at Denver airport
Federal agents removed a traveler from a Southwest Airlines jetway at Denver International Airport Monday night and escorted her to a van on the tarmac, a video shared with 9NEWS shows. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed to 9NEWS that federal agents arrested Chantal Alejandra Morales Rojas, who they said was in the country with…
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GEO impeding TB investigation at Aurora ICE detention center, Colorado officials say
Colorado officials said Tuesday that the GEO Group has failed to provide access required under state law for a tuberculosis investigation at the Aurora ICE Processing Center, hindering efforts to identify people who may have been exposed. The Adams County Health Department confirmed a detainee with active tuberculosis at the Aurora detention facility last month.…
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$529M ICE contract will nearly double Colorado’s immigrant detention capacity
The federal government has signed a five-year contract with private prison company GEO Group that will effectively double Colorado’s immigration detention capacity to about 2,700 beds. Signed July 9, the contract comes a year after the Trump administration told Colorado’s congressional delegation it planned to reopen the shuttered Hudson Correctional Facility as an immigration detention…