A Trump-appointed federal judge dealt a blow to Colorado’s effort to ramp up oversight of an ICE detention center by temporarily blocking key provisions in a state law after finding the state likely overstepped its authority.Chief U.S.District Judge Daniel Domenico issued the preliminary injunction Thursday, ruling that Colorado likely crossed a constitutional line in a state law by imposing new requirements specifically targeting the GEO Group’s Aurora ICE Processing Center, which operates under a federal contract and is the state's lone ICE detention center."Here, GEO has shown that it is singled out for a special bill that applies to no other facility," Domenico wrote.
"That other facilities might have some similar regulatory burdens does not change the fact that none of them are required to comply with HB 1276.As GEO notes, the extent of the additional burden is irrelevant for purposes of this test."BLUE STATE’S ANTI-ICE PLEDGE COLLAPSES AS GOP WARNS OF NEW SANCTUARY ‘CONFEDERACY’A Trump-appointed judge temporarily blocked key provisions in a Colorado state law putting immigration detention centers under greater state scrutiny.
(Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images)Democratic Colorado Gov.Jared Polis signed House Bill 26-1276 into law on June 4, expanding state and local oversight of immigration detention facilities.In his order, Domenico noted that GEO’s Aurora detention center was the only facility in Colorado subject to the law’s additional regulations as of May."And though Colorado argues that the law only brings GEO into compliance with existing state regulations applied to other detention facilities, that law singles out this one category of facility for a separately defined set of restrictions and rulemaking," Domenico wrote.
"And that is sufficient to establish that HB 1276 discriminates against GEO based on its status as a federal contractor."FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS NEW YORK LAW BANNING ICE AGENTS FROM WEARING MASKSThe immigrant d...