One of the immigrants living in Colorado faces a fine of approximately $500,000
From WaPo: "The civil penalties for violating immigration laws have existed since 1996, when President Bill Clinton (D) signed a hard-line bill into law."
Two undocumented immigrants currently living in sanctuary in churches in the Denver area have been threatened by the Trump administration with fines of thousands of dollars in civil penalties for disobeying their deportation orders ...
A Denver city agency is responding to President Donald Trump’s delay of immigration sweeps in Denver and other municipalities by saying it is “sickened by the use of immigrant [illegal alien] families as pawns in this political game.”
Last month, when Gov. Jared Polis signed into law legislation restricting Colorado’s cooperation with federal immigration officials, he placed the state squarely within the cross hairs of conservative efforts to crack down on so-called sanctuary cities for undocumented immigrants [illegal aliens] ...
[...] Jeanette Vizguerra has been seeking sanctuary at the First Unitarian Society of Denver church since her stay of deportation expired earlier this year. In 2017, she lived at the church for 86 days to avoid being deported to Mexico before she was granted the stay ...
Two cases of mumps and a case of chickenpox at Aurora’s immigration detention facility — the latest in a string of outbreaks at the center — have forced 142 detainees into isolation.
Authorities are looking for three detainees who escaped from the immigration detention facility in Aurora around noon Sunday.
A Denver Police spokesman confirmed that they received a request at 12:14 p.m. to help search for the escapees from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility ...
