暗黑爆料

A federal judge in Denver is set to hear arguments over whether an immigration and labor activist who took refuge in Colorado churches to avoid deportation during the first Trump administration should be freed from detention. Jeanette Vizguerra's lawyers are expected to argue during a hearing Friday that a pending deportation order isn't valid.

For the second day in a row, demonstrators called for the release of Jeanette Vizguerra, who is being held at an ICE facility in Aurora.

DPS sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after immigration enforcement raids were carried out in February. The district said ICE actions hurt school attendance and spread fear among students and families.

There鈥檚 been growing concern in Colorado communities about the possibility of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this story with Steamboat Pilot editor Trevor Ballantyne and then read The Steamboat Pilot story at the link below.

Multiple reports show ICE raids early Wednesday morning in Aurora and nearby Denver. The extent of these actions is not clear at this time.

An executive order has ended a policy that prevented federal immigration officials from making arrests at so-called 鈥渟ensitive鈥� locations like schools and churches. Now, some Colorado schools are working to better protect their students from potential immigration raids.

Building leaders are directed to gather information from agents including asking for a warrant, and then they must call district legal teams.

The ACLU recently acquired documents revealing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is actively considering locations to expand its detention capacity. Some of those locations include private prisons in the Mountain West.

Federal agents in Colorado detained about 50 people in an operation targeting drug trafficking by a Venezuelan gang. The sheer number of federal agencies involved showed President Donald Trump's willingness to use federal law enforcement beyond the Department of Homeland Security to carry out his long-promised mass deportations.

As the prospect of large-scale immigration action looms, school leaders across Colorado are making plans to help students who will be affected by those actions. And they're getting help from a Nebraska superintendent who saw his own community shaken by an immigration raid two decades ago. He shares the lessons he learned 鈥� and what educators need to do right now 鈥� on today鈥檚 In The NoCo.