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A federal judge again ordered authorities to grant two Colorado congressmen and their colleagues unannounced access to immigration detention centers Monday.
The ruling is the latest blow to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s monthslong effort to slow congressional oversight of the facilities.
The temporary restraining order applied by U.S. District Court Judge Jia M. Cobb will once again allow members of Congress to access detention centers — like the one in Aurora — without prior notice to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jason Crow (D-CO-06), along with 12 other plaintiffs, were granted emergency relief in his lawsuit to uphold congressional oversight at federal immigration detention facilities. A federal court ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to temporarily restore Members’ right to unannounced congressional oversight of federal detention facilities.
AURORA — Congressman Jason Crow (CO-06), a three-time combat veteran and former Army Ranger, released the following statement after the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice, led by Attorney General Pam Bondi, arrested independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for reporting on protests in Minneapolis:
“There’s nothing more American than the right to dissent and question authority. It’s who we are and how we became a country. I went to war three times for our nation. I swore to uphold the Constitution. There’s no way in hell I’m letting Donald Trump take these rights away now.
Every Democratic member of Congress from Colorado called for U.S. Secretary of Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem to resign after Border Patrol agents shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The legislators say U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is a lawless, rogue agency terrorizing Americans.
AURORA — Congressman Jason Crow (D-CO-06) will return to federal court against the Trump Administration to challenge their attempts at stonewalling Congress’s legal right to conduct oversight of federal immigration detention facilities.
AURORA — Congressman Jason Crow (D-CO-06), a combat veteran and member of the House Armed Services Committee, is calling for the resignation of U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem following another fatal shooting and killing of an American citizen in Minnesota.
Most of Colorado’s U.S. Congress delegation sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday urging him to work with the state to release more than $300 million in Child Care and Development Funds (CCDF), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) funding.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jason Crow (D-CO-06), a combat veteran and member of the House Armed Services Committee, today urged his congressional colleagues to reclaim their war powers and hold the Trump Administration accountable for its ongoing military adventurism abroad.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jason Crow (D-CO-06) has received an A+ from anti-corruption, pro-democracy group End Citizens United for his legislative work to end the influence of big donors, corporations, and special interests in our politics.
DENVER — Congressman Jason Crow (D-CO-06) marked this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day by participating in the Denver Marade, an annual march and protest honoring the memory of Dr. King, and by continuing King’s legacy of service making meals in Aurora for Coloradans in need.
At the Marade, Crow spoke alongside fellow elected officials; former Mayor Wellington Webb and the Honorable Wilma Webb; Vern Howard, Chair of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Colorado Holiday Commission; Pastor Odie Kennedy, President of the Greater Metropolitan Denver Ministerial Alliance; and others. This year marked Denver’s 40th annual Marade.