Seth Klamann
@sethklamann.bsky.social
Politics and immigration, Denver Post. KC born, Mizzou made. Admirer of public records and Lionel Messi. Joy cometh with the morning.
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Seth Klamann
@sethklamann.bsky.social
· Oct 22
Stuck in Aurora ICE facility, more detainees are agreeing to leave the U.S. voluntarily
The government’s goal, lawyers argue, is to create conditions inside ICE facilities that push immigrants to voluntarily leave or to accept a deportation order.
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At Aurora’s ICE detention center, person after person either requests to be removed from the U.S. or accepts a deportation. With bail serially denied to detainees, voluntary departures have surged in the only immigration court in the US with no dedicated judge: www.denverpost.com/2025/10/22/i...
Gov. Polis out with a statement celebrating the U.S.’s regime change operation in Venezuela:
January 3, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Gov. Polis out with a statement celebrating the U.S.’s regime change operation in Venezuela:
We invaded Iraq 22 years ago, and no U.S. official involved was held accountable. American politicians have paid little price back home for such things - or backing blood-soaked proxies - going back decades. No reason to believe that’d stop until American voters demand otherwise.
January 3, 2026 at 7:47 AM
We invaded Iraq 22 years ago, and no U.S. official involved was held accountable. American politicians have paid little price back home for such things - or backing blood-soaked proxies - going back decades. No reason to believe that’d stop until American voters demand otherwise.
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Hard to believe a FIFA Peace Prize laureate would do this.
January 3, 2026 at 6:56 AM
Hard to believe a FIFA Peace Prize laureate would do this.
Sounds like your product doesn’t fuckin work then, my dude.
“I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don’t see how that would work.”
From May 2025: www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
From May 2025: www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
December 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Sounds like your product doesn’t fuckin work then, my dude.
Colorado requires many sex offenders to complete treatment before leaving prison. But a chronic shortage of providers means hundreds have languished past their initial parole date, while nearly 2,000 more - sex offenders under a different sentence - were released with no treatment: trib.al/LubH0ty
Colorado prison backlogs for sex offender rehabilitation lead to missed parole dates, others getting out without treatment
“What it’s intended to do is to lock up the most dangerous sexual offenders until they are safe to rejoin society,” a state oversight board member says. “That is not how it works …
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December 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Colorado requires many sex offenders to complete treatment before leaving prison. But a chronic shortage of providers means hundreds have languished past their initial parole date, while nearly 2,000 more - sex offenders under a different sentence - were released with no treatment: trib.al/LubH0ty
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A Democratic vacancy committee on Tuesday night appointed Rep. William Lindstedt to a state Senate seat for the coming legislative session.
Broomfield Democratic rep wins vacancy appointment to replace late state Sen. Faith Winter
A Democratic vacancy committee on Tuesday night appointed Rep. William Lindstedt to a state Senate seat for the coming legislative session.
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December 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
A Democratic vacancy committee on Tuesday night appointed Rep. William Lindstedt to a state Senate seat for the coming legislative session.
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The Trump administration is seeking to overhaul the country’s immigrant detention system in a plan that includes renovating industrial warehouses to hold more than 80,000 immigrant detainees at a time, according to documents reviewed by The Post.
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
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December 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Trump administration is seeking to overhaul the country’s immigrant detention system in a plan that includes renovating industrial warehouses to hold more than 80,000 immigrant detainees at a time, according to documents reviewed by The Post.
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Released after 9 months in ICE detention, immigrant-rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra stood on the steps of Denver's federal courthouse today and pledged to keep fighting the crackdown that still threatens to remove her from the country: "The struggle goes on” // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social
Freed from ICE facility, activist Jeanette Vizguerra urges detainees: ‘Don’t give up. Keep fighting.’
Jeanette Vizguerra’s attempts to regain her freedom had galvanized supporters since she was detained in March, becoming one of Colorado’s highest-profile arrestees in Trump’s mass…
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December 24, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Released after 9 months in ICE detention, immigrant-rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra stood on the steps of Denver's federal courthouse today and pledged to keep fighting the crackdown that still threatens to remove her from the country: "The struggle goes on” // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social
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Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand.
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
December 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand.
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
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NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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UPDATE: Nine months after she first entered an Aurora detention center, Jeanette Vizguerra walked out of the facility and “into the loving arms of her family” Monday afternoon, her supporters said.
ICE releases immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra from detention
Nine months after she first entered an Aurora detention center, Jeanette Vizguerra walked out of the facility and “into the loving arms of her family” Monday afternoon, her supporters s…
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December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
UPDATE: Nine months after she first entered an Aurora detention center, Jeanette Vizguerra walked out of the facility and “into the loving arms of her family” Monday afternoon, her supporters said.
U.S. Reps. DeGette, Pettersen and Crow join Bennet, Hickenlooper, Neguse and Hurd in trying to preserve Boulder’s NCAR. Absent are Colorado’s three other Republicans, U.S. Reps. Crank, Boebert and Evans.
Proud to build and lead a bipartisan coalition with Rep. Jeff Hurd and @bennet.senate.gov & @hickenlooper.senate.gov — joined by more than 80 of our colleagues in the House and Senate — to protect NCAR in the FY26 NSF appropriations bill.
We will not stop until NCAR is protected — period.
We will not stop until NCAR is protected — period.
December 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
U.S. Reps. DeGette, Pettersen and Crow join Bennet, Hickenlooper, Neguse and Hurd in trying to preserve Boulder’s NCAR. Absent are Colorado’s three other Republicans, U.S. Reps. Crank, Boebert and Evans.
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CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
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New: What did Denver read this year? Here are the library's most checked-out books of 2025 www.denverpost.com/2025/12/22/d... via @denverpost.com
What did Denver read this year? Here are the library’s most checked-out books of 2025
From dragon tales to wedding bells to mental health advice, these are the most checked out books of the year at Denver Public Library.
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December 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
New: What did Denver read this year? Here are the library's most checked-out books of 2025 www.denverpost.com/2025/12/22/d... via @denverpost.com
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NEW: The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday ruled that cities cannot punish lawbreakers beyond what state courts would allow for the same offense in a ruling that could set precedent for hundreds of municipal courts around the state // Story by @samtabachnik.bsky.social
Municipal courts can’t issue harsher punishment than state court for same offenses, Colorado Supreme Court rules
The justices ruled that when a municipal ordinance and a state statute prohibit identical conduct, the municipal penalties for such conduct “may not exceed the corresponding state penalties f…
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December 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
NEW: The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday ruled that cities cannot punish lawbreakers beyond what state courts would allow for the same offense in a ruling that could set precedent for hundreds of municipal courts around the state // Story by @samtabachnik.bsky.social
Boulder-based BI Incorporated, a subsidiary of Geo Group, signed a contract with ICE this month to track down immigrants in immigration court proceedings (not detained cases). The contract is worth up to $121 million over the next 2 years. BI generally provides ankle monitoring services to ICE/Geo.
December 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Boulder-based BI Incorporated, a subsidiary of Geo Group, signed a contract with ICE this month to track down immigrants in immigration court proceedings (not detained cases). The contract is worth up to $121 million over the next 2 years. BI generally provides ankle monitoring services to ICE/Geo.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
“This is not a truce, it is a bloodbath.” The six Palestinians killed by Israel while they sheltered in a Gaza school last week bring the post-“ceasefire” death toll to 401, per the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Israeli troops kill six Palestinians sheltering in Gaza school, say hospital chiefs
Attack brings total number of Palestinians killed by Israel to 401 since October ceasefire took effect
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December 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
“This is not a truce, it is a bloodbath.” The six Palestinians killed by Israel while they sheltered in a Gaza school last week bring the post-“ceasefire” death toll to 401, per the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
The person who made the decision to hold this story has never been a news reporter or a news editor. Really sickening.
December 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The person who made the decision to hold this story has never been a news reporter or a news editor. Really sickening.
Breaking: Jeanette Vizguerra, the immigrant activist who’s been detained since March, has been granted bail, her legal team says. $5,000 with no monitoring restrictions. She’ll likely be out in 24-48 hours.
December 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Breaking: Jeanette Vizguerra, the immigrant activist who’s been detained since March, has been granted bail, her legal team says. $5,000 with no monitoring restrictions. She’ll likely be out in 24-48 hours.
If I were the Broncos, I would simply learn how to tackle.
December 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
If I were the Broncos, I would simply learn how to tackle.
Watched the new Avatar movie and got the distinct feeling of a parent trapped at a child’s $500 million school play. The state must intervene and stop James Cameron from making any more of these movies.
December 20, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Watched the new Avatar movie and got the distinct feeling of a parent trapped at a child’s $500 million school play. The state must intervene and stop James Cameron from making any more of these movies.
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Sen. Cynthia Lummis won’t seek reelection in 2026 - WyoFile wyofile.com/sen-cynthia-...
Sen. Cynthia Lummis won’t seek reelection in 2026 - WyoFile
Longtime Wyoming politician Cynthia Lummis will not seek reelection to the U.S. Senate in 2026, she announced Friday. The prominent Laramie County
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December 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Sen. Cynthia Lummis won’t seek reelection in 2026 - WyoFile wyofile.com/sen-cynthia-...
Credit to immigration lawyer Laura Lichter, who advocated intensely for media access to the hearing and helped force ICE to allow several of us into the courtroom.
Immigration judge weighs release of activist Jeanette Vizguerra after ICE sought to block media's court access
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Immigration judge weighs release of activist Jeanette Vizguerra after ICE sought to block media’s court access
An immigration judge will decide in the coming days whether to temporarily release immigrant rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra after a Friday bail hearing.
trib.al
December 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Credit to immigration lawyer Laura Lichter, who advocated intensely for media access to the hearing and helped force ICE to allow several of us into the courtroom.