Colorado lawmakers took another step Thursday toward further restricting state and local involvement in civil immigration detention, sending HB23-1100 to the governor’s desk.
Colorado lawmakers took another step Thursday toward further restricting state and local involvement in civil immigration detention, sendingIf Gov. Jared Polis signs it into law, the bill would, by Jan.
Multiple states have passed similar bills banning such contracts, including New Jersey, Washington, California, Illinois and Maryland. And with more asylum seekers being sent to detention centers across the country, including the Aurora facility, and taking up bed space, Fabbricatore said he believes the bill will lead to Colorado residents being detained in other states, something advocates of the bill have refuted.Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, a Boulder County Democrat, said the legislation is about keeping families and communities together, and the bill only applies to people accused of civil immigration violations, not criminal.
He told lawmakers that Teller County has had its contract to hold immigrant detainees for ICE since 2000 — separate from the 287 program — and recently, the jail negotiated its rate for reimbursement from the federal government to $93 an inmate per day.
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