Rocky Mountain Voice

Colorado voters to decide future of police cooperation with ICE

By Jesse Paul | The Colorado Sun

Initiative 95 would amend the state constitution to require that police officers, sheriff’s deputies and prosecutors alert federal immigration authorities if they charge someone whose immigration status is in question if that person has a prior felony conviction or the charge is for an alleged violent crime

Colorado voters will decide in November whether to require that state and local law enforcement work more closely with federal immigration officials. 

Initiative 95 would amend the state constitution to require that police officers, sheriff’s deputies and prosecutors alert the U.S. Department of Homeland Security if they charge someone whose immigration status is in question if that person has a prior felony conviction or the charge is for an alleged violent crime.

The department houses U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement, as well as Customs and Border Patrol.

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