Allison Sherry
@allisonsherry.bsky.social
Justice/Immigration reporter at Colorado Public Radio and sometimes National Public Radio. Mama/wife. I do this to hold people accountable.
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HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.
November 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.
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Boulder firebombing suspect pleads not guilty to state charges www.cpr.org/2025/11/05/b... via @allisonsherry.bsky.social
Boulder firebombing suspect pleads not guilty to state charges
Mohamed Sabry Soliman faces more than 180 state charges for first-degree murder, attempted murder and using explosive devices. He also faces federal hate crimes charges.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Boulder firebombing suspect pleads not guilty to state charges www.cpr.org/2025/11/05/b... via @allisonsherry.bsky.social
Hi🖐️ -- we're still here in the cavernous, windowless courtroom in the federal building hearing arguments about whether Colorado ICE officers are illegally taking immigrants into custody and detention without assessing their flight risk.
My latest: First day of arguments in a case challenging ICE officers in Colorado and their lack of warrants in detaining non-criminal immigrants. We'll pick up at 9 am tomorrow.
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Federal judge hears arguments that Colorado ICE agents are illegally detaining people
Plaintiffs' lawyers argued that Colorado-based immigration agents do not first assess the likelihood of fleeing, which is required by federal law.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Hi🖐️ -- we're still here in the cavernous, windowless courtroom in the federal building hearing arguments about whether Colorado ICE officers are illegally taking immigrants into custody and detention without assessing their flight risk.
My latest: First day of arguments in a case challenging ICE officers in Colorado and their lack of warrants in detaining non-criminal immigrants. We'll pick up at 9 am tomorrow.
www.cpr.org/2025/10/30/c...
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Federal judge hears arguments that Colorado ICE agents are illegally detaining people
Plaintiffs' lawyers argued that Colorado-based immigration agents do not first assess the likelihood of fleeing, which is required by federal law.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:39 AM
My latest: First day of arguments in a case challenging ICE officers in Colorado and their lack of warrants in detaining non-criminal immigrants. We'll pick up at 9 am tomorrow.
www.cpr.org/2025/10/30/c...
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Here are my latest two stories on this growing escalation between local government officials and ICE.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Here are my latest two stories on this growing escalation between local government officials and ICE.
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"We’re going to send a message to every Denver police officer that your employer is hanging them out to dry. We’re going to come after their personal assets, their cars, their marital estates, we’ll garnish their wages."
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Where does $20 million come from? Massive jury award will test George Floyd-era police reform law in higher courts
The law attempts to hold cities and officers accountable for egregious mistakes on the job — and lawyers are trying to outsmart it.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"We’re going to send a message to every Denver police officer that your employer is hanging them out to dry. We’re going to come after their personal assets, their cars, their marital estates, we’ll garnish their wages."
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ICYM: @cprmarkus.bsky.social and I finished this piece last week and it landed Friday amid a busy news day. We could find no evidence that ICE's claims that assaults on their agents have gone up 1,000 percent nationally. Or in Colorado.
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Claims of huge rise in assaults against ICE drive responses, but aren’t seen in available data
Despite repeated requests from CPR News for data to support the assault claims — ICE and Homeland Security have produced nothing but a handful of anecdotes.
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October 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
ICYM: @cprmarkus.bsky.social and I finished this piece last week and it landed Friday amid a busy news day. We could find no evidence that ICE's claims that assaults on their agents have gone up 1,000 percent nationally. Or in Colorado.
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Claims of huge rise in assaults against ICE drive responses, but aren’t seen in available data www.cpr.org/2025/10/02/i... via @cprmarkus.bsky.social & @allisonsherry.bsky.social
Claims of huge rise in assaults against ICE drive responses, but aren’t seen in available data
Despite repeated requests from CPR News for data to support the assault claims — ICE and Homeland Security have produced nothing but a handful of anecdotes.
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October 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Claims of huge rise in assaults against ICE drive responses, but aren’t seen in available data www.cpr.org/2025/10/02/i... via @cprmarkus.bsky.social & @allisonsherry.bsky.social
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Not licensed to practice in Colorado, according to search of state database.
September 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Not licensed to practice in Colorado, according to search of state database.
My latest: Colorado being asked to hand over Medicaid data by House Republicans www.cpr.org/2025/09/04/r...
House Republicans demand health care and Medicaid data from Colorado
Specifically, they’re demanding lists and information about costs associated with operations and medical procedures done on people unauthorized to be in the country.
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September 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
My latest: Colorado being asked to hand over Medicaid data by House Republicans www.cpr.org/2025/09/04/r...
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Gov. Polis, AG Weiser, Denver Mayor all clap back against Trump’s immigration lawsuit www.cpr.org/2025/08/26/c... via @allisonsherry.bsky.social #copolitics
Gov. Polis, AG Weiser, Denver Mayor all clap back against Trump’s immigration lawsuit
Colorado is among a handful of states the administration has sued for its so-called sanctuary policies.
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August 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Gov. Polis, AG Weiser, Denver Mayor all clap back against Trump’s immigration lawsuit www.cpr.org/2025/08/26/c... via @allisonsherry.bsky.social #copolitics
So the feds had a press conference today announcing they cracked down on the Venezuelan gang TdA. But then none of the actual charges are tied to gangs, RICO or gang affiliations.
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Feds announce drug and gun charges, then make gang claims they won’t have to prove
Monday’s press conference was a repackaging of months of arrest warrants, indictments and superseding indictments as the number of defendants grew.
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August 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
So the feds had a press conference today announcing they cracked down on the Venezuelan gang TdA. But then none of the actual charges are tied to gangs, RICO or gang affiliations.
www.cpr.org/2025/08/18/d...
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Another Colorado judge is ordering federal agents to stop making immigration arrests at courthouses
August 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Another Colorado judge is ordering federal agents to stop making immigration arrests at courthouses
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Colorado, Denver named again as ‘sanctuary’ spots for unauthorized new arrivals, fight continues in court www.cpr.org/2025/08/05/j... via @allisonsherry.bsky.social #copolitics
Colorado, Denver named again as ‘sanctuary’ spots for unauthorized new arrivals, fight continues in court
The federal government also thinks the state is wrong to seek sanctions against a Mesa County Sheriff deputy cooperating with ICE.
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August 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Colorado, Denver named again as ‘sanctuary’ spots for unauthorized new arrivals, fight continues in court www.cpr.org/2025/08/05/j... via @allisonsherry.bsky.social #copolitics
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Could tracking denied gun sales help prevent tragedies? Experts think so www.cpr.org/2025/08/04/r... via @allisonsherry.bsky.social #copolitics
Could tracking denied gun sales help prevent tragedies? Experts think so
Gun purchase denials — which are immediately reported to local law enforcement, federal immigration officials and some prosecutors — could be useful intelligence. But is anyone making use of the data?
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August 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Could tracking denied gun sales help prevent tragedies? Experts think so www.cpr.org/2025/08/04/r... via @allisonsherry.bsky.social #copolitics
My latest: State officials lag, or outright ignore, people who fail background checks when trying to buy a gun
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Could tracking denied gun sales help prevent tragedies? Experts think so
Gun purchase denials — which are immediately reported to local law enforcement, federal immigration officials and some prosecutors — could be useful intelligence. But is anyone making use of the data?
www.cpr.org
August 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
My latest: State officials lag, or outright ignore, people who fail background checks when trying to buy a gun
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State AG Phil Weiser both sues an individual sheriff's deputy for sharing information about a woman he stopped with ICE and launches a patterns and practices investigation on 4 law enforcement agencies on whether they're purposefully breaking state law on information sharing with ICE.
July 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
State AG Phil Weiser both sues an individual sheriff's deputy for sharing information about a woman he stopped with ICE and launches a patterns and practices investigation on 4 law enforcement agencies on whether they're purposefully breaking state law on information sharing with ICE.
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Karen Diamond, who had been hospitalized since June 1, has died from “severe injuries that she suffered in the attack," according to a statement from Boulder District Attorney Michael Dougherty.
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Victim in Boulder firebomb attack dies weeks after being in hospital, suspect now faces first-degree murder charges
Karen Diamond was 82 years old and suffered severe injuries in the June 1 attack.
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June 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Karen Diamond, who had been hospitalized since June 1, has died from “severe injuries that she suffered in the attack," according to a statement from Boulder District Attorney Michael Dougherty.
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Colorado mandated reporting on police violence after George Floyd's murder. Five years later, the data is mostly useless. Reporting w/ @cprmarkus.bsky.social
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Colorado mandated reporting on police violence, five years later, the data is mostly useless
Some of Colorado's largest departments say computer problems have prevented their full data from being presented by the state. Other departments just haven’t provided any information and the state has...
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June 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Colorado mandated reporting on police violence after George Floyd's murder. Five years later, the data is mostly useless. Reporting w/ @cprmarkus.bsky.social
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Some new details in the case of accused Boulder bomb thrower -- including his defense's argument that he didn't target the demonstrators because of "national origin" which was one of the legal thresholds argued today for the hate crime charge. More here.
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Motive debated as federal hate crime charges against accused Boulder firebomb thrower proceed
In an almost three-hour hearing in federal court on Wednesday, no one tried to argue that Mohamed Soliman wasn’t the man throwing Molotov cocktails at peaceful marchers in Boulder on June 1.
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June 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Some new details in the case of accused Boulder bomb thrower -- including his defense's argument that he didn't target the demonstrators because of "national origin" which was one of the legal thresholds argued today for the hate crime charge. More here.
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This is a first for me. CO Rep. Lauren Boebert's financial disclosure for 2024 discloses nothing. No book royalties, no bank accounts, no home mortgage. (And she filed this late and had to pay a fine.) #copolitics
June 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This is a first for me. CO Rep. Lauren Boebert's financial disclosure for 2024 discloses nothing. No book royalties, no bank accounts, no home mortgage. (And she filed this late and had to pay a fine.) #copolitics