Trump Administration sues Colorado and Denver for immigration policy

The Trump government sued Colorado and Denver on Friday and accused the state, the city and its leaders, the federal immigration measures, the youngest volleys in the struggle of the White House to force the local governments to carry out deportations.

The lawsuit, which was submitted before a federal court in Colorado and governor Jared Polis and Mayor Mike Johnston von Denver as accused, requires cooperation with federal authorities in particular the laws to limit or prohibit cooperation with federal authorities.

A state law prohibits the officials of keeping someone exclusively on the basis of a civilian immigration prisoner, an inquiry that a prisoner is not released. Other state laws prevent state and local officials from sharing information with the immigration authorities of the states and preventing local prisons from working with the federal government to accommodate people who have been arrested due to violations of civil immigration.

The lawsuit also calls for a measure in Denver, which prohibits the use of city resources to support the immigration authority, and an executive regulation from 2017 by the mayor, which “set up Denver as a safe and inviting city for everyone”.

The law calls on the court to decide the laws unconstitutionally and to prohibit its enforcement.

“This is a lawsuit to put an end to this catastrophic policy and to restore the dominance of the Federal Immigration Act,” the lawsuit said.

Many liberal states and cities have laws that the local police authorities mainly remove from the enforcement of the immigration authorities in order to build up trust in migrant communities. Democratic civil servants in several cities say that the guidelines help immigrants to feel comfortable to report crimes and to interact with health departments and schools.