Aurora Sentinel: For the safety of tens of thousands of people stowed away in mismanaged, dangerous and sometimes deadly private immigration warehouses, real change could be coming.
Aurora Congressperson Jason Crow, a Democrat, and Florida Rep. John Rutherford, a Republican, are jointly sponsoring legislation that seeks to vastly improve transparency and accountability at the privately-run immigration prison in Aurora, and those like it across the nation.
It’s a measure long overdue and badly needed, especially as the incoming Trump administration is threatening mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, a program Trump has dubbed “Operation Aurora.” Aurora has been the focus of anti-immigrant controversy after national attention was drawn to a chaos surrounding Venezuelan immigrants and reported gang activity in local apartment complexes.
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