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The ICE detention facility in Aurora is one of 22 new outbreaks reported by CDPHE this week.

Coronavirus outbreak confirmed at ICE detention denter in Aurora

Immigration Lindsay Fendt -
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment confirmed a COVID-19 outbreak at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Aurora Wednesday,...

ICE moves hundreds of detainees in and out of the Aurora ICE detention facility...

Immigration John Herrick -
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has moved 776 detainees into a privately-run detention center in Aurora in the approximate eight weeks since the first case...
More than 1,000 people marched on July 12, 2019 in protest of the detention of immigrants in private prisons, including the detention facility in Aurora, Colo. run by GEO Group.

Federal judge clears way for lawsuit against ICE over medical treatment of detainees GEO...

Immigration John Herrick -
A federal judge on Monday ordered ICE to consider releasing any detainees with medical conditions that make them vulnerable to COVID-19. The case is...

Attorneys sue ICE to release medically vulnerable detainees from Aurora detention center Detention is...

Immigration John Herrick -
Update on April 15: After immigration attorneys filed the federal lawsuit against ICE seeking the release of 14 medically at-risk detainees, the agency released...
The ICE detention facility in Aurora is one of 22 new outbreaks reported by CDPHE this week.

ICE: Immigrants in Aurora detention center possibly exposed to COVID-19 The immigration enforcement agency...

Immigration John Herrick -
Ten people have been grouped into a “cohort” at the ICE detention center in Aurora following reports of possible exposure to COVID-19, the highly...

On eve of paid family leave bill debut, some workers may be left behind...

Immigration John Herrick -
Democrats are poised to release a landmark bill to create a paid family leave insurance program in Colorado, a dream years in the making...

Supreme Court ruling on “public charge” rule could affect thousands of Colorado immigrants The...

Immigration Forest Wilson -
Colorado immigration advocates decried a Monday Supreme Court ruling that allows the Trump administration to broaden income and public benefits tests for legal immigrants. The...
Two students look at photos as they create autobiographies in the Poudre School District's Newcomer program on Tuesday, March 5, 2019. In the past year, the number of unaccompanied minors crossing into the U.S. and being released to a parent, relative, or other sponsor in Colorado has more than doubled. (Photo by Richard Haro)

Across borders, through detention, and into Colorado classrooms: The journey of solo children

Immigration Yesenia Robles, Chalkbeat Colorado -
At 15, he made the long, frightening trek across Central America and the U.S.-Mexico border with a smuggler. Then he continued on an even...
Dreamers and others march in support of DACA in Denver in September 2017, the year the Trump administration sought to cancel the program and the last year new applications were accepted. The Supreme Court is expected to decide by the end of June whether the Trump administration's argument that DACA was an unlawful exercise of executive power has merit. (Photo by Tina Griego)

Polis: Should Supreme Court rule against DACA, Colorado can do little to protect Dreamers...

Immigration John Herrick -
Gov. Jared Polis said the state is limited in what it can do to help the thousands of young, unauthorized immigrants, known as Dreamers,...
Kamyar Samimi was 64-years-old when he died, shortly after being detained in the GEO Group immigration detention facility in Aurora. (Photo from an ACLU of Colorado report.)

ACLU sues GEO Group and doctor for wrongful death of immigrant detainee in Aurora...

Immigration Forest Wilson -
The ACLU of Colorado sued the GEO Group today for what it alleges was the wrongful death of a Thornton man at the private...
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