Hancock, Denver officials to ICE: Stay out of courthouses unless you have a warrant

Mayor Michael Hancock, District Attorney Beth McCann and other city officials Thursday asked Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stay out of Denver courthouses unless in possession of a warrant.

In a letter to ICE Acting Field Office Director Jeffrey Lynch, Hancock and the seventeen other signatories, which included all of Denver City Council, requested that ICE officers “respect ‘sensitive locations’ when carrying out their duties.”

Notably, Lynch is the same ICE officer whom U.S. Rep. Jared Polis recently accused of “going rogue” for denying longtime Denver resident and undocumented immigrant Jeanette Vizguerra’s stay of deportation in February.

The move was prompted by recent media accounts of ICE agents walking the halls of the Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse in order to arrest undocumented immigrants in court for state or local matters.

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