Douglas County plans to launch a legal challenge to recent state laws that bar local law enforcement in Colorado from closely cooperating with federal immigration officials and is ready to pass an …
Families travel on a bus as they leave Denver’s then-largest migrant encampment at 27th Avenue and Zuni Street on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. The City Council allocated $300,000 for migrant families from the camp sites to help cover their first month’s rent. Leaders of the conservative south metro county have characterized the legal challenge and a proposed ordinance aimed at preventing the busing of migrants to its communities as their response to the ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.
An effort by Commissioner Lori Saine to introduce just such a resolution was narrowly voted down by her fellow commissioners earlier this month, according to “When law enforcement works with , it creates a lot of fear in our immigrant communities,” she said. “It sends a chilling message to all immigrants in our community.”prevents state and local governments
Teal said the state laws that Douglas County plans to challenge mark an overreach by state government and trample on Douglas County’s duty to “provide for the health, welfare and safety” of its citizens.
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