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  Are Immigration Agents Breaking Protocol During Arrests at Courthouses in Denver?

  September 19 at 8:04 a.m.

  Documents reveal arrests of undocumented immigrations at courthouses in Denver are more common than anyone, including the City of Denver, suspected.

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  Denver Is Bitterly Divided Over New Immigration Bill

  September 15 at 8:05 a.m.

  Immigration enforcement is an especially contentious issue right now, and it should come as no surprise that Denver’s recent decision to pass an ordinance that limits the city’s cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement has divided Denver residents.

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  Colorado to Trump: We're Joining the Lawsuit Against DACA Repeal

  September 13 at 11:25 a.m.

  Today, September 13, the State of Colorado announced that it will join a lawsuit originally filed by New York challenging President Trump's plan to pull the plug on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, shorthanded as DACA. In a statement about his reasons for taking this action, Governor John Hickenlooper said, "President Trump’s decision to end the DACA program is outrageous and risks the futures of more than 17,000 Coloradans."

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  Iraqis in Aurora Immigrant Detention Center Allege Abuse, Pressure to Self-Deport

  September 12 at 8:30 a.m.

  When the ACLU of Colorado heard that Iraqi detainees being held inside Aurora’s immigrant detention center – a 1,500-bed facility run by the private prison company GEO Group – were being singled out and harassed by the facility’s guards, ACLU attorneys and staff members went to investigate.

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  Marco Dorado, Lauded in Senate by Michael Bennet, on Trump and DACA

  September 6 at 7:54 a.m.

  President Donald Trump's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, better known as DACA, prompted the walkout of more than a thousand Denver students on September 5. Among the demonstrators making their feelings heard was Marco Dorado, whose story we shared in a March post headlined "Meet Marco Dorado, Exhibit A in What's Wrong With Trump's Immigration Policies." But yesterday, someone else told Dorado's tale: Colorado Senator Michael Bennet, who used him as an example of why eliminating DACA is cruel and counterproductive during a speech delivered on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

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  Over a Thousand Students Stage Walkout and Rally to Protest DACA Decision

  September 5 at 3:15 p.m.

  The students came from schools all across Denver. Many marched miles from their respective campuses in long lines that stretched along streets and boulevards. Some chanted. Some held signs. But they were all headed to one location on Tuesday morning: the Tivoli Student Union on the Auraria Campus, to protest President Trump's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.