ICE is 'flipping the bird' at judge's warrantless arrest order as agents continue to snatch 'parents and families' off the streets without checking flight risk: Lawyers

ICE agents successful Colorado person been "flipping the bird" astatine a federal judge's bid barring warrantless arrests without assessing formation hazard archetypal arsenic they proceed to rip "parents and families" retired of cars and disconnected section streets to deport them, immigration lawyers say.

"Even pursuing this court's introduction of a preliminary injunction connected Nov. 25, 2025 — which prohibited ICE from engaging successful warrantless arrests without the required formation hazard investigation and required ICE to papers the particularized facts giving emergence to probable origin that idiosyncratic is simply a formation hazard — defendants person persisted successful their unlawful practice, flouting some national instrumentality and the directives of this court," an amended complaint filed past week alleges. "Permanent class-wide injunctive alleviation is indispensable to support Coloradans from defendants' disregard for the limits of their authority," the ailment says.

Lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, East Colfax Community Collective, and 2 Denver instrumentality firms person identified astatine slightest 58 forms filled retired by migration officers aft warrantless arrests successful Colorado betwixt Nov. 25, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2025, alone. None of them allegedly complied with the requirements of the Nov. 25 preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson, a Barack Obama appointee, which barred ICE from conducting warrantless arrests without archetypal checking whether determination was a formation risk.

Denver migration lawyer Hans Meyer told The Denver Post that ICE has been "flipping the bird" astatine Jackson's bid by repeatedly refusing to amusement compliance.

"ICE is going to proceed to interruption the tribunal order, and effort to navigator the books, by ginning up immoderate benignant of pretext aft the information and effort to cheat their mode astir the tribunal order, alternatively than conscionable pursuing the law," Meyer said.

In the amended complaint, which was filed Feb. 2, Meyer and the different lawyers accidental ICE's "illegal practices person terrorized the assemblage and sowed distrust successful police." They allege that radical are being arrested during purported postulation stops, "simply walking successful neighborhoods oregon adjacent workplaces wherever Coloradans ICE profiles arsenic noncitizens unrecorded and marque their living," and adjacent portion reporting to scheduled check-ins with ICE.

"The radical swept up successful these warrantless arrests see assemblage members with nary transgression records whatsoever; they see asylum seekers; they see parents and families' superior breadwinners," the ailment says. "Notwithstanding this court's order, defendants person persisted successful pursuing the administration's unlawful warrantless apprehension argumentation and signifier successful bid to travel the president's directive to 'do each successful their powerfulness to execute the precise important extremity of delivering the azygous largest Mass Deportation Program successful History.'"

Evidence is presented passim the ailment showing however ICE agents targeted galore radical without checking their formation hazard presumption aft Jackson issued his order, according to the migration lawyers. A Colorado Springs father, for instance, who has lived successful the United States for 11 years was nabbed by national officers portion "waiting arsenic a designated operator for a friend" astatine a section nightclub.

ICE agents allegedly arrested the 32-year-old "without evaluating his likelihood of flight earlier a warrant could beryllium obtained" and past kept him locked up astatine a detention installation for implicit six weeks earlier helium was capable to prosecute counsel and get a enslaved hearing.

The dada present "feels tense leaving his location and fears going to nationalist places," the ailment says. "[The father] perpetually worries astir being separated from his American-born son," the papers adds.

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Immigration lawyers accidental Colorado's communities cognize ICE's tactics "all excessively good and unrecorded successful changeless fear" arsenic a effect of Jackson's bid being violated. ICE arrests person seen a astir "300% summation from the aforesaid play successful 2024," per the lawyers.

"There is nary motion ICE volition dilatory down," the ailment says, noting however the agency's "footprint successful Colorado could soon grow" arsenic President Trump's fund successful the "One Big Beautiful Bill" designated $170 cardinal to migration enforcement, including much than $45 cardinal for further ICE detention space.

"ICE agents are ignoring the law's wide request to measure formation hazard earlier making a warrantless arrest," the ailment concludes. "Instead, they are scrambling to capable arbitrary quotas acceptable by the administration, causing chaos and panic successful neighborhoods passim Colorado. This suit seeks to enjoin Defendants' ongoing signifier and signifier of flouting national instrumentality successful transportation with their wide migration arrests successful Colorado."