Colorado counties joining list in refusing ICE holds in local jails
Yadira Castillo [illegal alien] was pulled over for not having her lights on as she was driving home from her waitress job in Denver three years ago. Because she was a suspected [illegal alien] undocumented immigrant and could not produce identification, a deputy handcuffed her and she was booked into the Aurora Detention Center.
Even though Castillo wasn't charged with anything but a minor traffic infraction, she spent nearly 48 hours behind bars before Immigration and Customs Enforcement decided to release her. She suffered a miscarriage a week later and blames it on the stress of her incarceration.
"I didn't know I had rights, and that they had violated those rights," the 34-year-old [illegal alien] Castillo, who has lived in the United States without legal status for 15 years, said recently.
Cases such as Castillo's have been the impetus for a change that has spread across Colorado in recent weeks.
The Aurora Detention Center is now one of 16 jails in Colorado refusing to honor ICE requests to detain suspected [illegal alien] undocumented immigrants ...
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HB 1224 - Colorado Secure and Verifiable Identity Document Act