thecoloradosun Previously, immigrants with no criminal history and low flight risk would regularly be released from detention while their immigration cases played out. But an ICE policy this year has made many immigrants ineligible for release. Several court orders across the country have challenged that policy. Court data shows that immigrants in Colorado are increasingly desperate for release. “To have the Trump administration say we’re deporting everyone and I have clients desperately trying to get removed means the system is failing at every single level,” said Christina Brown, a Denver-based immigration lawyer who has worked on Landazuri’s case. For months, immigrants imprisoned at the Aurora detention facility have been asking to be deported. And yet, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has kept them there with no answers about when they will get out. Cesar Eriberto Landazuri Marmolejo, who came to the U.S. last year with his wife and young son, asked to return to Ecuador to reunite with them after they self-deported last month. ICE detained him after an asylum hearing June 17 in Denver. ICE finally deported him Thursday. Keooudone Phetchamphone, who came to the U.S. as a child from Laos in the 1970s, wants to return to Laos for a fresh start there, according to his sister. ICE detained him at a routine check-in Aug. 27. He remains detained. Landazuri and Phetchamphone represent a growing population of detained immigrants in Colorado who are asking to be deported, many citing unbearable conditions at the Aurora detention center. But, despite the Trump administration’s mass deportation policy, they have languished behind bars, largely in the dark about when they will be freed. ➡️ Read more at the link in our bio 📷 Courtesy photo ☀️ Like and follow for more Colorado news View all 22 comments