Immigrants in Boulder and around Colorado are living in constant fear.
They’re afraid to go to their immigration hearings, but they’re also afraid to go out in public in general, said Hunter Parnell, a University of Colorado Law School student. They’re afraid of “everything you can imagine.”
“There’s no guarantee that even people who have done things the right way and are protected will be protected,” Parnell said.
Parnell is a law student on the Boulder campus who worked in the university’s Immigration Clinic and represented clients in court last year. The clinic has offered free immigration legal services to clients at CU Boulder, in Boulder County and across the state since 2012.
Since President Donald Trump took office, Trump has pursued an agenda focused on mass deportations, ICE