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Colorado Judge Approves $3000 Bond for Woman Detained by ICE at DIA
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Colorado Judge Approves $3000 Bond for Woman Detained by ICE at DIA

By Jennifer McRae | CBS Colorado According to the attorneys for Chantal Rojas, the woman who was detained by ICE at Denver International Airport, she could be released on bond on Wednesday after a judge granted her a $3,000 bond on Tuesday.  The Department of Homeland Security said Rojas is originally from Ecuador and overstayed her visa in the U.S.  She was taken into ICE custody on July 20 and placed in the detention facility in Aurora, Colorado, according to DHS. Last week's interaction between Morales Rojas and DHS was captured on camera and quickly spread online.  READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT CBS COLORADO
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Trump Rolls Out Self-Funding Immigration Fee System With Tougher Enforcement
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Trump Rolls Out Self-Funding Immigration Fee System With Tougher Enforcement

By Amanda Head | Just the News The new fees, including a $100 charge to apply for asylum and annual penalties for pending cases, also become a self-funding hammer to enforce stricter borders and deter abuse in a system that President Donald Trump has long derided as broken. On Wednesday, the Trump administration gave notice of the start of a sweeping array of new immigration fees, creating a no-lose scenario where the new fees either deter applicants from coming, thus reducing immigration, or they proceed with their application, putting more money into resources to scrutinize claims. The rollout, triggered by notices under last year's “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” signed last year, layers fresh costs onto everything from work permits for protection seekers to juv...
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DOJ Challenges Colorado Law Granting In-State Tuition to Undocumented Students
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DENVER7, Approved, State

DOJ Challenges Colorado Law Granting In-State Tuition to Undocumented Students

By: Robert Garrison | Denver7 DENVER — The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Colorado, arguing that the state’s laws granting in-state tuition and certain financial aid benefits to undocumented students violate the Constitution. The complaint was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Denver. President Donald Trump’s DOJ claims in the suit that federal law prohibits states from giving postsecondary education benefits to people “not lawfully present” based on state residency unless the same benefits are available to all U.S. citizens regardless of where they live. “An alien who is not lawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible based on residence within a State (or a political subdivision) for any postsecondary education benefit unless a ...
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Town of Hudson Sued Over Approval Process for Planned ICE Detention Center
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Town of Hudson Sued Over Approval Process for Planned ICE Detention Center

By: Nicole C. Brambila | The Denver Gazette A nonprofit organization filed a lawsuit against the Town of Hudson Wednesday, challenging plans to reopen a former federal prison in the town as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility. Together Colorado, along with Janet E. Carlson, filed the case in Colorado District Court in Weld County, alleging the town is not “powerless to act” and that the proposed detention facility violates the town’s zoning laws. “Under Colorado law, Hudson has not only the authority but the obligation and the duty to treat the proposed facility the way it would treat any other new facility proposed within the Town: by applying and enforcing its own Land Development Code,” the lawsuit says. In addition to the ...
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Court Documents Detail Suspect’s Account In Aurora ICE Protest Shooting
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Court Documents Detail Suspect’s Account In Aurora ICE Protest Shooting

By: Alliyah Sims | KDVR FOX31 AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) – Newly released court documents revealed more details about the moments that led to the shooting of a protester outside the Aurora ICE Processing Center, including what the suspect told investigators after the gunfire. According to the arrest affidavit, Brandon Booth admitted he intentionally pulled the trigger during the July 16 shooting but told police he was trying to scare two protesters and never intended to hit anyone. Booth told investigators he became angry after he says protesters made comments about his children, and that they allegedly threatened to show up at their school, which he said sent his anger to a “15 out of 10.” He said he believed the comments were threatening, but he also acknowledged th...
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Birthright Citizenship Fight Moves to Capitol Hill After Supreme Court Decision
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Birthright Citizenship Fight Moves to Capitol Hill After Supreme Court Decision

By: Eric Wessan | The Federalist Sen. Jim Banks has offered a text-and-precedent-bound response to a decision his opponents assumed had ended the debate. When the Supreme Court decided Trump v. Barbara on June 30, 2026, opponents of birthplace-citizenship reform declared the fight over. But that disappointing decision was not the end of attempts to reform the system. It was merely the “end of the beginning.” Sen. Jim Banks read Barbara as a legislative map. His new Citizenship Act follows the road Wong Kim Ark charted. Barbara held that President Trump’s executive order was unconstitutional by locking in birthplace citizenship’s definition from a much older case. That 1898 case, United States v. Wong Kim Ark, laid out three categories of people whose children are not...
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Federal Judge Dismisses Mesa Sheriff Challenge to Colorado Immigration Law
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Federal Judge Dismisses Mesa Sheriff Challenge to Colorado Immigration Law

By Michael Karlik | The Denver Gazette A federal judge dismissed a challenge from Mesa County Sheriff’s Office leaders last week to a Colorado law limiting public employees’ cooperation with immigration authorities, concluding that the plaintiffs did not allege they engage in any conduct that the law would prohibit. In a July 17 order, U.S. District Court Judge Gordon P. Gallagher noted that lawmakers only forbade the sharing of personal information “for the purpose of” immigration enforcement. Even then, the law contains exceptions for authorized criminal investigations or necessary duties. “The Court respects that Plaintiffs’ wish to ensure they understand, both for individual reasons and on behalf of the agencies they head or work for, the current bounds of the law ...
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Colorado Socialist Nominee Calls for More Immigrants to Hold Public Office
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Colorado Socialist Nominee Calls for More Immigrants to Hold Public Office

By: Chris Bradford | New York Post The anti-Israel Gen-Z socialist who ousted 15-term Colorado rep Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) has called for more immigrants to be elected into office so America’s “exploitative” role on the world stage can be combated. Ethiopian-born Ph.D student Melat Kiros – who wildly claimed the elimination of Israel isn’t antisemitic – told Denver’s Wa-Ela Tigray diaspora gathering earlier this month there needs to be “more people who have heritage in the global south.” Kiros, a member of the radical Democratic Socialists of America, spoke about the challenges of being an insurgent candidate before warning those already in power they have a responsibility to make it easier for their successors when it comes to running for office. ...
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Four ICE Protesters Detained After Blocking Centennial Field Office
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Four ICE Protesters Detained After Blocking Centennial Field Office

By: Adria Iraheta | Denver7 Deputies told Denver7 Arapahoe County reporter Adria Iraheta they cited 4 protesters Monday at the Centennial ICE field office during demonstrations. CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Four people were detained and cited Monday after a tense standoff with law enforcement outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Centennial, as protests continued for a fourth day following a shooting at a nearby ICE detention facility. The Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office says the four were detained, cited and released at the scene after they were "warned multiple times to stop impeding operation of a public building." The protests began after reports of health concerns inside the Aurora Processing Center. Adams County health officials pre...
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Has Trump kept his promises? You decide.
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Rocky Mountain Voice, Commentary, National, Top Stories

Has Trump kept his promises? You decide.

By Russ Minary | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice I am tired of uninformed people and ideologues who complain that the Trump administration is not getting things done. So, here is a list of some of his accomplishments in just his second term. NOTE: I am not a Trump fanboy nor a partisan ideologue; I am a conservative who values the truth. You may dislike or disagree with Mr. Trump or certain members of his cabinet, or some of the 56 items on this list (sourced from Jeff Childers in his Coffee&Covid blog) but it provides hard details for your consideration.  I’ve read it and found it to be fairly accurate. Of course, nitpickers who like to sort the fly crap out of the pepper may find a few insubstantial things to correct. My focus is on facts and results.  Y...
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