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A Colorado community is using local zoning rules to try to push ICE out

Tucked in at the edge of a shopping center in Glenwood Springs, near a gym, a dental clinic and a Social Security office not far from Interstate 70, is a nondescript office without any signs that’s been operating for over 20 years. Only in recent months, amid scrutiny of a Trump administration immigration crackdown, have many people learned what goes on inside. This is where people arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Garfield County and the surrounding region are held until they can be transported to Colorado’s immigration detention center in Aurora. While it has operated discreetly for decades, the Glenwood Springs holding center has become the latest battleground where opponents of ICE are pressuring local officials to use every legal avenue possible to shut down or stop ICE centers from opening. As public sentiment against the surge in immigration enforcement has increased, local officials are joining in on the fight or being pushed to stand up to the federal government, using zoning rules and other municipal regulations and standards. It’s a long-shot, mostly untested tactic that has yielded varying results, but pitching a fight with the feds has become something constituents are increasingly demanding from their elected...

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‘You’re proud?’ Trump official’s brazen admission leaves analyst floored

Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins made a startling admission Tuesday while speaking at a trade show in Minnesota, one so brazen that journalist Prem Thakker was left taken aback.Speaking at the Mi...