Sweetleaf wrote:
the governor of my state Colorado is a useless coward sycophant, who won't do anything. Also he aint going to stop Ice I am sure they are already aware lots of dissenters exist here in Colorado so we could be next after Minneapolis.
It's interesting to see how ICE operations are rolled out in each state. Jared Polis sounds like Tulsi Gabbard, a democrat who likes trump.
ICE arrested more than 3,500 people in Colorado in 2025 — including babies and the elderly
The number of arrests made by ICE agents in Colorado this year from Jan. 20 to Oct. 15 quadrupled compared with the same period last year
On just one Sunday in April, immigration officers arrested at least 72 people in Colorado, data from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows, the busiest day for immigration enforcement in the state so far since President Donald Trump took office in January.
That day, federal agents from several agencies raided a Colorado Springs nightclub, arresting dozens of people they suspected of being in the country illegally.
“Colorado Springs is waking up to a safer community today,” Jonathan Pullen, special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Division, said after the raid.
But newly released data shows that just nine of the 72 people ICE agents arrested in Colorado that day were marked by the agency as having any prior criminal convictions. ICE said the convictions were for a traffic offense, obstruction, assault, illegal entry, driving under the influence, heroin smuggling and marijuana possession.
Not all nine with prior convictions appear to have been arrested during the raid — six were arrested in El Paso County, and three were arrested in Denver, according to the data. Seven of the men were from Mexico, one was from Cuba and another was from Honduras.
The ICE arrest activity April 27 in Colorado serves as an example of the Trump administration’s ramped-up immigration enforcement this year — and its human toll. The busiest day for immigration enforcement in Colorado in 2024 saw just 18 arrests, data shows.
Most people arrested by ICE in Colorado and Wyoming this year did not have criminal history
Most people arrested by ICE in Colorado and Wyoming this year did not have criminal history
At the Colorado Springs nightclub April 27 was a man identified in court filings as 32-year-old G.R.R., who was there to pick up a friend who had been drinking. He heard loud booms and glass breaking, and the club began to fill with smoke and tear gas. He ran outside to find officers pointing guns and yelling at people. He said an officer shoved him to the ground, causing a severe cut on his hand, put zip ties on him and loaded him onto a bus with dozens of other people headed to a detention center.
G.R.R. had been living in Colorado Springs for 10 years and owned a remodeling business. He lived with his fiance and their 10-year-old son, both U.S. citizens.
Paperwork filled out by an ICE officer after the arrest shows ICE arrested G.R.R. upon learning he was undocumented, according to court filings. A later section of the paperwork describes a prior misdemeanor assault conviction that was dismissed after he completed a two-year suspended sentence, “but there is no indication that ICE knew this information at the time or relied upon it in deciding to arrest him,” a federal judge found.
G.R.R. spent two months in detention before posting a $10,000 bond for release. He and three others sued ICE over the agency’s arrest practices. Last month, a federal judge called the tactics “unlawful,” restricted how ICE can arrest people in Colorado and ordered the agency to repay bond money to G.R.R. and others and remove their ankle monitors.
In all, ICE arrested at least 3,522 people in Colorado from Jan. 20 to Oct. 15, according to new data obtained from ICE and published by the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law’s Deportation Data Project. About 70% of those arrested during the time period this year have been deported, according to the data, while about 61% of those arrested during the same time period in 2024 were deported that year. Another 17% of those arrested under President Joe Biden’s final year in office were deported after Trump took office.
The Trump administration’s mass deportation policy has swept up Coloradans who have citizenship in 72 countries. ICE made most of the arrests in Denver County, followed by El Paso, Arapahoe, Mesa and Adams counties. The arrests have left no age group unaffected, including babies and the elderly. ICE arrested 103 people under the age of 18 and 14 over the age of 65.
The number of arrests made by ICE agents in Colorado this year from Jan. 20 to Oct. 15 quadrupled compared with the same period last year. The data through mid-October shows similar trends to earlier ICE arrest data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and reported by The Colorado Sun.
The most recent data shows most people arrested in Colorado this year did not have any prior criminal convictions, according to ICE’s accounting. ICE arrests peaked in July, with 548. For the eight full months that data is available, there were an average of about 393 arrests per month this year, compared with 96 arrests per month during the same period in 2024.
Among the youngest people arrested in Colorado was a baby girl born in 2024, the data shows, with Mexican citizenship. ICE arrested her July 30 in the Denver area and deported her Aug. 8 to Venezuela, according to the data. Of the 15 other people arrested in Colorado whom ICE marked as deported that same day, none had prior criminal convictions, including a Venezuelan man and a Peruvian woman born in 1996 and a Peruvian child born in 2021, all sent to Venezuela.
The oldest person ICE arrested in Colorado was a 91-year-old man from Mexico on June 12. ICE data shows he was deported July 29. He is marked in the ICE data as having a prior criminal conviction for sexual assault, but there is no date for the conviction.
https://coloradosun.com/2025/12/31/ice- ... a-project/
16 Jan 2026, 1:44 am
