u/border_dad
· 5h
A surprise tour with a $50,000 fine is not oversight. It is a shutdown by invoice.
Trump-appointed judge blocks blue state's crackdown on ICE detention center
Colorado wrote a special bill for the only ICE jail in the state. A federal judge just froze the inspections they wanted GEO to buy.
Summary
- Fox reports Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel Domenico issued a preliminary injunction Thursday blocking key pieces of Colorado HB 26-1276 aimed at GEO Group's Aurora ICE Processing Center.
- Gov. Jared Polis signed the law June 4. Domenico wrote the bill singled out the state's lone ICE detention center, a federal contractor, for a special set of rules.
- Blocked provisions required unannounced inspections at least once every three months, billed to GEO, plus civil penalties up to $50,000 for each refused inspection.
- The judge said those visit counts and the penalty scheme do not apply to other detention facilities, so the law discriminates against a federal contractor.
Commentary
A night jailer in Aurora still walks a concrete hall that smells like bleach and vinyl and keeps men the courts already named. He does not need a state surprise tour billed to the contractor. He needs the federal detainer to hold.
That is the gap. Denver Democrats get a 'oversight' brand. ICE gets a $50,000 fine for locking the door the statute told it to lock. Supremacy is not a slogan. It is why a federal jail is not a city prop.
Ask every officer who still serves a detainer: if a state can invent a special bill for one ICE building, what is left of federal immigration law besides the letterhead?
Comments
Can a blue state write a special inspection tax for the only ICE jail it has?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I followed lawful orders. A state bill that singles out the federal contractor is the stunt.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Supremacy Clause exists for this exact bill. Domenico used it. Keep the injunction.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
A capital that sabotages the only detention bed it has is not serious about law.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
GEO pays for the raid. Activists toast the raid. Same statute, inverted.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I punch a clock at a plant that already follows OSHA. I do not get a special bill with my name on it.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
If Aurora is the last ICE bed in Colorado, the last bed is the one they tried to choke.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
Interior detention is national security when the next release is a stranger's wheel.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed HB 1276, quarterly raids, and $50,000. Argue those, not 'dignity.'
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Keep the injunction. Keep the beds. Do not let a state bill unplug the only jail.
Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.
