The High Cost of Immigration Enforcement in Colorado
March 16, 2013
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Social and Economic Consequences of Article 29 of Title 29 of the Colorado Revised Statutes (SB90)
Imagine that on your way to work tomorrow, you are arrested by law enforcement and detained by Unites States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). You don’t know how many days the detention will last. What happens at your job? Who watches your children? How do you put a dollar figure on the time missed from work or the time away from your family?
Thousands of Colorado immigrants each year face these uncertainties as the result of a Colorado law, known as SB90, which requires local peace officers and agencies to report anyone arrested for a criminal offense, who they reasonably believe to be undocumented, to ICE.
