New ICE detention center poses critical test for Colorado

By: Quentin Young

Outlets: Colorado Newsline

Published: July 16, 2026

Words: 815

Last Updated: 5 days, 18 hours ago

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If federal immigration authorities are allowed to open a second detention center in Colorado, it will represent a political and moral failure of state leaders and residents.

ICE operates one detention center in Colorado, an Aurora site of reported inhumane conditions where many immigrants caught up in the Trump administration’s lawless mass deportation efforts are locked away. Now ICE plans to open another northwest of Denver in rural Hudson, where detainees would be subject …

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