immigration
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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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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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Colorado Supreme Court end-of-term stats, federal judges’ backlogs increase | COURT CRAWL
Welcome to Court Crawl, Colorado Politics’ roundup of news from the third branch of government. The state Supreme Court’s term revealed increased division among the justices in their opinions, plus Colorado’s federal judges have started to accumulate more overdue motions in civil cases. Colorado Supreme Court 2025-2026 term • Like its federal counterpart, the state…
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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…
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Shackled ICE detainees seen escorted from downtown Colorado Springs bank building
Incident follows an uptick in immigration arrests in the city, watchdog group says Four men shackled at the chest were shuffled into a GEO transport van at an unmarked immigration detention facility on Thursday in downtown Colorado Springs. After one of the individuals was seen being arrested outside the building that houses The Gazette, a…
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State Supreme Court’s final decisions of term, Trump’s judicial nominee appears before Senate | COURT CRAWL
Welcome to Court Crawl, Colorado Politics’ roundup of news from the third branch of government. The state Supreme Court has released its final opinions before its summer recess, plus the president’s nominee for the Denver-based federal appeals court fielded questions from the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Colorado Supreme Court news • The Supreme Court decided…
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Trump’s judicial nominee orders bond in wave of cases after 10th Circuit rejects government’s position
Within 24 hours of the Denver-based federal appeals court rejecting the government’s expansive view of its immigration detention authority, the lone judge in Colorado to embrace that view ordered bond hearings for detainees in at least 20 cases. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Daniel D. Domenico issued a wave of identical orders on Wednesday instructing…
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10th Circuit rebuffs government, rules against shift to mandatory immigration detention
The Denver-based federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday against the government’s broad assertion of authority to keep people in immigration custody without the opportunity to demonstrate their suitability for release on bond. Although the regional appeals courts have reached different conclusions on the subject, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit decided the…
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U.S. government declines to oppose multiple challenges to immigration detention in Colorado
Multiple federal judges in Colorado granted petitions from people challenging the lawfulness of their immigration detention this week after the government took the unusual step of declining to submit arguments in opposition. Colorado’s federal trial court is facing a flood of “habeas corpus” petitions from those in immigration custody. The most common allegation is that the…