immigration
EDITORIAL: It’s accurate now to call the Aurora GEO ICE prison a concentration camp
It’s no longer just a barbed social media meme to insist the Trump administration has turned the nation’s stock of immigrant detention centers into concentration camps. As you read this, and right here in Aurora, people are illegally confiscated and rounded up, denied their constitutional rights regarding search and seizure and habeas corpus, held without […]
Immigration lawyer argues improper arrest for Aurora detainee
This story was first published at Colorado Newsline. DENVER | Rudy Villeda Mejía has his own roofing business, a wife and three stepchildren in Washington, near the state’s border with Canada. He has never been charged with a crime. He entered the U.S. without authorization for a second time in 2010 after he was kidnapped […]
Disagreements between Supreme Court justices bubble into public view as major rulings loom
WASHINGTON | The Supreme Court is handing down major opinions at a rapid clip, but even with some of the biggest decisions yet to come there are signs of tension between the justices. One highly unusual exchange for the restrained and traditional atmosphere came Thursday, as the members of the nation’s highest court took the […]
ICE detainees are dying by suicide at an ‘alarming’ rate, an AP investigation finds
Brayan Rayo Garzon was distraught. Detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he was on his fourth day of isolation in a Missouri jail as he battled the fevers and chills of COVID-19. His request for mental health treatment had been put off, records show, and staff had forbidden Rayo from making his nightly call to […]