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A new immigration ruling is creating serious concerns for people with DACA and others who have relied on advance parole. On August 13, the Board of Immigration Appeals issued an opinion on the Matter of Delcarmen-Lara, overturning more than a decade of precedent on advance parole. The ruling says that travel outside the United States with advance parole now counts as a “departure” for purposes of the 10-year unlawful presence bar. The Immigrant Legal Resource Center has warned that the ruling...

When she got a call from her husband, less than an hour after he left home for work, he told her he had been detained by ICE. She didn’t believe him. “I thought he was joking with me,” the wife said. “I told him to stop lying.” It was later that morning, after a trusted friend had checked the area and accompanied her to pick up his car a few blocks from their Rifle home, that it finally hit her. “I felt like he had died,” she said. “To see his truck and all his things abandoned there. His...

New public data from ICE offers a look at the scope of enforcement efforts in Colorado, including the Western Slope. While not perfect, this data provides our best available insight into the impact of these operations. The data comes from the Deportation Data Project at UC Berkeley School of Law, which obtained internal ICE records through public records litigation against the federal government. For the Western Slope, the data shows that at least 541 people with a connection to our region...