· The Colorado Independent · By Nathan Woodliff-Stanley · From the Border Crossing Law Firm media archive.
In this guest essay, ACLU of Colorado director Nathan Woodliff-Stanley uses Audemio Orozco-Ramirez's detention to condemn the Trump administration's immigration enforcement. He argues that ICE had abandoned serious-crime priorities for indiscriminate and sometimes retaliatory deportation, and calls for Audemio's release, a clean Dream Act, and comprehensive reform.
Audemio's Montana case became a national civil-liberties example after he was transferred to a private Colorado detention center. The essay shows how Shahid's years of local advocacy supplied a concrete human story for the wider debate over ICE accountability.