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Nonprofit, Hudson Resident Say They've File Legal Challenge to Block Hudson's Big Horn ICE Detention Center
The suit says Hudson must enforce its zoning code and stop a 1,200-bed ICE facility that would nearly double Colorado detention capacity.
- Together Colorado, a nonprofit collection of faith leaders, and a Weld County resident sued the Town of Hudson on Wednesday, arguing the municipality must enforce its land development code to block the planned Big Horn immigration detention center.
- The Department of Homeland Security awarded The GEO Group a five-year, $528.7 million contract on July 10 to reopen the shuttered facility as the Big Horn Correctional Facility, projected to generate $85 million in annual revenue.
- Filed in Weld County District Court, the lawsuit alleges the industrial-zoned property requires a special permit for detention use, a process the federal government is attempting to bypass.
- Town Manager Bryce Lange maintains that the U.S. Constitution supersedes local zoning, asserting the town lacks legal authority over federal immigration detention operations at the facility.
- The ACLU of Colorado argues the remote location creates barriers to legal representation and emergency care, noting the nearest hospital is 12 miles away in Brighton compared to the Aurora facility.
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Faith group, Weld County resident sue Hudson over ICE detention center zoning issue
The dormant Hudson Correctional Facility is pictured on Sept. 4, 2025. (Photo by Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline)A Denver-based nonprofit and a neighbor to the defunct prison set to become Colorado’s second immigration detention facility are suing the town of Hudson, alleging that town leadership is skirting local land use code in allowing the facility to reopen. The Weld County resident, Janet Carlson, and the multi-faith organization Together…
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Immigration advocates sue town in bid to block new ICE detention center northeast of Denver
Together Colorado and a Weld County resident sued the town of Hudson arguing it must enforce its land development code as the federal government moves toward reopening a shuttered private prison for use as a 1,188-bed ICE detention center.
·Denver, United States
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