Last year, then-candidate Donald Trump told a crowd in Aurora he would ramp up deportations if he won the 2024 election. Federal agents arrived in Colorado soon after he took office, driving military vehicles across Aurora and Denver in high-profile raids.

The metro hasn’t seen such a public show of force since February, but data show U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been more active in the metro ever since. Federal officers are arresting about five times as many immigrants in the city of Denver now, compared to averages before Trump took office.

That’s according to new numbers from the Deportation Data Project (DDP), an effort led by academics and attorneys to bring transparency to the nation’s immigration enforcement system. The dataset contains individualized records

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