Tag: ice
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Colorado Springs organizers expect thousands to attend Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ protest
As protesters prepare to gather at more than 1,500 “No Kings” events nationally on Saturday, Colorado Springs residents are planning to gather in America the Beautiful Park to push back on the Trump administration. “The president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos,…
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ACLU sues Trump administration over ICE arrests in Colorado
The ACLU of Colorado has sued the Trump administration, alleging that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials carried out unlawful, warrantless arrests as part of a broad effort to detain immigrants living in the United States without legal status. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of a legal permanent resident, a “Dreamer” brought to the country…
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Trump’s threat escalates showdown
CHICAGO – Hundreds of Texas National Guard soldiers gathered on Tuesday at an Army facility outside Chicago, as Donald Trump’s threat to invoke an anti-insurrection law and deploy troops to more U.S. cities intensified the battle over the limits to his authority. The Republican president on Tuesday again left open the possibility that he might…
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3 people shot at a Dallas ICE facility and the shooter is dead, official says
DALLAS (AP) — Three people, including detainees, have been shot at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas and the shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, federal authorities said. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons confirmed the shooting during an interview on CNN on Wednesday. Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin later told…
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ACLU sues ICE over plans to expand agency’s detention capacity
The ACLU of Colorado filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seeking records on the government’s plans for expanding its detention capacity in the state. “Already, our previous requests and subsequent lawsuit have revealed how ICE may spend some of its record $45 billion budget intended for immigration detention,” said Tim Macdonald, ACLU…
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ICE documents detail plans for three new detention centers in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to establish three new detention facilities in Colorado in an effort to increase capacity statewide from 1,360 to 4,090, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. The internal agency road-map document shows plans to open or expand 125 facilities…
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DEA, ICE raid of Denver apartments raises legal questions
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The battering ram that tore through the Denver apartment door of Felicia Gurule’s family friend, “Pops,” left more than a mangled lock and splintered wood. It triggered questions in some quarters about constitutional boundaries of immigration raids — as well as defense by others of…
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Judge handling Denver schools’ challenge to ICE policy changes course, sets hearing
The federal judge overseeing Denver Public Schools’ challenge to the Trump administration’s new policy for immigration enforcement announced on Monday that he will hold a hearing on the district’s request for a restraining order — a seeming about-face from his position just one week ago. The DPS lawsuit against U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem seeks…
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Man in the middle: DPS lawsuit against Trump policy assigned to judge with higher aspirations
After Denver Public Schools sued the Trump administration on Wednesday seeking to overturn a new policy giving immigration authorities greater latitude to operate in schools, the case was assigned to the lone, first-term appointee of President Donald Trump on Colorado’s federal trial court. U.S. District Court Judge Daniel D. Domenico has routinely handled challenges to governmental actions during his…
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10th Circuit rejects appeal of Aurora immigrant detention facility operator in class-action suit
The federal appeals court based in Denver declined last week to decide the appeal of the private company that operates an immigrant detention center in Aurora, concluding it had no ability to weigh in on the class-action lawsuit before trial. The plaintiffs are detainees who originally filed suit in 2014. They claimed GEO Group, which…