Immigrant Rights

Glenwood Springs resident Juan Carlos Membreño Portillo was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month on suspicion of being an MS-13 gang member. Portillo is being held at the ICE detention facility in Aurora. KDNK’s Lily Jones spoke to his friend and landlord, who attended his most recent bail hearing.

Voces Unidas, a West Slope Latino advocacy group, recently published findings related to the disappearance of Garfield County residents and contact with Garfield County Sheriff’s Deputies. The group is asking the Colorado Attorney General to intervene. KDNK’s Lily Jones has more on what the group believes is a potentially illegal collaboration between federal and local law enforcement.

Rifle resident and Eagle County Undersheriff Dan Loya has been working in law enforcement for nearly 30 years. He's hoping to take his experience in criminal investigation, disaster management, and policing to the office of Garfield County Sheriff. Loya and KDNK news host Lily Jones discuss immigration law, wildfire preparedness, and the importance of accountability in law enforcement in this episode of Municipal Matters.

The American Civil Liberties Union recently obtained documents detailing plans for a new ICE detention center in Hudson, Colorado.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

More than 50 No Kings rallies took place around Colorado on Saturday including in Glenwood Springs, where an estimated 4,000 demonstrators marched through downtown wearing costumes and brandishing signs protesting the Trump administration. Protesters gathered Saturday morning in Bethel Plaza under the bridge over the Colorado River.

As immigration raids are taking place across Colorado communities, local law enforcement is struggling to interpret a new law and strike a balance with the federal government. Ryan Spencer is a public safety reporter for a number of outlets across the Western Slope. He recently published an article about Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, and which Sheriff’s departments they are communicating with, and those they aren’t.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.