DENVER, CO — The Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC) joined Colorado WINS, Towards Justice, the Colorado AFL-CIO, and members of the Colorado Democratic Latino Caucus today to celebrate a critical step forward in the fight to protect immigrant communities: the preliminary injunction granted in Moss v. Polis by Denver District Court Judge A. Bruce Jones.
This injunction blocks the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment from sharing personally identifiable information of Coloradans who are sponsoring unaccompanied minors—a clear signal that our state’s privacy protections and due process requirements cannot be ignored or bypassed by ICE or by political pressure.
“This ruling affirms what we’ve said all along: when state agencies hand over personal data, lives are upended,” said Gladis Ibarra, Co-Executive Director of CIRC. “We fought to pass SB25-276 and SB21-131 to draw a hard line between Colorado and the deportation machine. If these laws are to mean anything, they must be upheld—and today’s decision makes clear they will be.”
The case is grounded in SB21-131 and SB25-276, laws which prohibit Colorado agencies from sharing personal identifying information (PII) with ICE without due process and a judicial warrant. While the injunction offers crucial protection moving forward, the harm done to public trust cannot be ignored.
This ruling is just the beginning of a legal process, but it sends a strong message: Colorado’s laws matter. Our communities will not stand by while ICE attempts to exploit our state systems to target immigrant families. We remain vigilant and committed to ensuring accountability from all levels of government.