Immigration officials in Aurora are blocking detained immigrants from seeking bail hearings under a new Trump administration policy that violates federal law, according to a lawsuit filed this week in federal court.

The suit, filed Tuesday , seeks to end the policy implemented by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this summer, which abruptly reversed a longstanding interpretation of federal law generally allowing undocumented immigrants residing in the interior of the country to be released from detention. If ICE declined to set bail, they could seek what is referred to by immigration authorities as a bond hearing.

The case was filed in U.S. District Court in Denver on behalf of Nestor Mendoza Gutierrez, a small business owner who’s been in Colorado since 1999. He was a

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