Immigrants detained in Colorado by ICE’s ‘deportation machine’ reach for once-rare legal lever

As ICE enforcement increases in our communities, many more of our clients are being wrongfully detained and held in prolonged detention. RMIAN is fighting to ensure immigrants' rights are protected by utilizing its litigation expertise to bring habeas petitions before the federal court—a way to challenge this unlawful confinement. This Denver Post article covers the surge in habeas cases. As Shira Hereld, RMIAN Staff Attorney, said in the article "habeas is the only way that most folks are getting out of detention, and more folks are being both arrested and held in detention than ever before.”