The Trump Sed Colorado and Denver administration on Friday, accusing the State, the city and its leaders to prevent federal immigration actions, the last save in the White House struggle to force local governments to help carry out deportations.
The lawsuit, which was filed in a federal court in Colorado and includes Governor Jared Polis and Mayor Mike Johnston of Denver as defendants, specifically questions the state and city laws that restrict or prohibit cooperation with federal agencies.
A state law prohibits officers from having someone only based on civil immigration arrest, a request that a detainee will not be released. Other state laws prevent state and local officials from sharing information with federal immigration authorities and prevent local prisons from working with the federal government to house people detained for civil immigration violations.
The demand also challenges a Denver measure that prohibits the use of city resources to help with the application of immigration, and an executive order of 2017 of the mayor that aimed to “establish Denver as a safe and welcoming city for all.”
The claim asks the court to govern unconstitutional laws and prohibit its application.
“This is a lawsuit to end these disastrous policies and restore the supremacy of the Federal Immigration Law,” the lawsuit said.
Many states and cities of liberal inclination have laws that maintain local police departments mainly eliminated from immigration application activity, as a way of building with immigrant communities. Democratic officials in several cities say that policies help immigrants feel comfortable informing crimes and interacting with health departments and schools.
But the White House and other Republican officials say that laws like these, in the so -called Sanctuary cities, give a safe refuge to criminals and endanger residents.
In a statement, Mr. Polis’s office, a Democrat, said that Colorado was not a sanctuary and that it worked regularly with the local, state and federal police.
“If the courts say that any Colorado law is not valid, then we will continue the ruling,” the statement said. “We are not going to comment on the merits of demand.”
Mr. Johnston, also a Democrat, said in an interview that his city already works with federal immigration authorities by honoring requests to notify the application of immigration and customs if what the agency calls a “removable foreigner” is about to be related.
At the same time, said Johnston, he believes that places such as hospitals, schools and courts must be out of the limits for the application of immigration.
“What we know is that we don’t have thousands of undocumented people here with violent criminal records,” said Johnston. “That is the myth that told her leg.”
According to a survey last summer, the general public support for immigration to the United States decreased under the Biden administration. Some state and local officials are now temperate their language to describe the policies of the sanctuary, and some have tried to loosen local measures that limit cooperation with federal officials.
But many officials of states and cities led by Democrat also face criticism of their supporters to delay Trump’s hard line policies.
Hans Meyer, an immigration lawyer based in Denver who helped promote the laws that are now challenged, described the statement of Mr. Polis “Tepid” and “disappointing”.
“We chose Governor Polis to defend these principles in which we believe,” said Meyer. “And not be a collaborator who doubles the knee to the Trump administration.”
The demand against Colorado officials is similar to one of the administration filed against Illinois and Chicago in February, and one against the city of Rochester, New York, presented last month. Both demands are ongoing.
Litigation is only part of the broader effort of the Trump administration so that the states and the local police do more to help with deportation plans. The administration has tried to block the funds of cities and counties that do not cooperate.
On Monday, President Trump signed an executive order that directed Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, and the name of Kristi, the Secretary of National Security, to publish a list of state and local jurisdictions that the Administration considers the sanctuary cities. Ask for “all the necessary legal resources and compliance measures” against them.
Last month, the FBI agents arrested a Milwaukee judge for charges to obstruct justice, and the authorities said he had directed an undocumented immigrant outside his court room through the side while the federal immigration agents waited. The judge’s legal team has promised to dispute the charges.
Colorado’s demand occurs shortly after more than 100 people that federal agents said they were undocumented immigrants were arrested in a raid of a Springs Colorado nightclub, according to the drug control administration. Around 50 of the city police officers helped federal agents.
The mayor of that city, himself immigrant from Nigeria, told the New York Times that he supported the trial.
“This mayor of immigrants says: If he is illegally and is committing a crime, there should be consequences,” said Mayor Yemi Mobolade, an independent politician. “You should be deported.”
Trump has also vilified to another city of Colorado, Aurora, as invaded by the Venezuelan street gang, Train The Aragua. In the campaign, Mr. Trump frequently mentioned the Suburberrez of Propagation, and shortly after his inauguration, federal agents raised complexes of ruins apartments where immigrants had lived without working with plumbing or heat. ICE would say how many people were arrested in that raid, or if I had stopped any gang member.
The demand filed on Friday once again invoked Aurora, claiming that the Aragua took control of the apartment buildings in that city as “the direct by -product of the sanctuary policies pressed by the state of Colorado.”
Aurora officials have said that these statements are very exaggerated.
The report was contributed by Jack Healy” Julie Bosman” Mitch Smith” Hamed Aleaziz” Tim Arango and Ernesto Londoño.
