As ICE arrests surge, Colorado advocate, lawmakers say new push far from ‘quiet’

ICE arrests contractor in the middle of West Seattle construction job

Videos show ICE threatening to smash Eduardo Aguirre's truck window. Aguirre, who is married to a US citizen, was sent to a detention facility in Texas.

4 arrested during immigrant rights protest at ICE field office in Colorado

Centennial, CO – At 8 a.m. on Monday, July 20, organizers and community members from across the Denver Metro area joined together for a protest at the ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Denver Field Office in Centennial, Colorado. The protesters come together for a die-in scheduled by the Shut Down GEO Coalition to highlight detained immigrants' demands for freedom, humane conditions, and to end all contracts with GEO Group, the operat…

As ICE arrests surge, Colorado advocate, lawmakers say new push far from ‘quiet’

National and international headlines in recent days have proclaimed a “quiet and steady” surge in arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents this summer after very visible and sometimes deadly sweeps in Minneapolis and other U.S. cities last winter. “ICE released enforcement data for the first time since April, and … it shows the agency arresting more people than at any point in this administration, an average of 1,474 arrests a …

U.S. Senator Patty Murray speaks out against ICE arrest in West Seattle: 'Just plain sick'

That sign went up a few days ago north of Morgan Junction (that’s the West Seattle Church of the Nazarene at 42nd/Juneau in the background). A reader told us an ICE arrest had been reported at 41st/Juneau, but we had no photo nor other corroborating details – until now, when another reader pointed us to this video clip posted by U.S. Senator Patty Murray on social media. This is the full text of what Sen. Murray wrote beneath the video: On Thurs…