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Colorado's only ICE detention center operator sues state
The company says the law intrudes on federal immigration authority and seeks to block unannounced health and safety inspections every three months.
- The GEO Group filed a lawsuit this week challenging Colorado's House Bill 26-1276, which mandates increased oversight of the company's 1,532-bed detention center in Aurora.
- Signed by Gov. Jared Polis last week, the law allows the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to conduct unannounced safety inspections every three months.
- Calling the measure a direct affront to the Supremacy Clause, the company argues the bill "fits into a broader pattern of state efforts to improperly assert regulatory authority" over federal operations.
- Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser defended the legislation, stating, "These are private facilities that are subject to legal oversight, they don't operate outside the law."
- This legal challenge follows reports of medical concerns at the Aurora facility, where The Adams County Health Department investigation documented obstacles including blocked staff interviews and delayed patient access.
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GEO Group sues Colorado over new immigration detention health and safety inspection law
AURORA The GEO Group, which helps operate the Aurora ICE Processing Center, has filed a lawsuit arguing Colorado is "improperly asserting regulatory authority over immigration detention facilities."At the center of the lawsuit is HB26-1276, a law signed by Gov. Jared Polis last week allowing unannounced health and safety inspections inside immigrant detention facilities every three months.Watch this story from Denver7 reporter Veronica Acosta in…
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