HUDSON, Colo. (KDVR) — Plans to convert a former prison in Hudson into a new immigration detention center are sparking controversy.

On Saturday, several dozen community members and immigrant rights advocates gathered outside the former Hudson Correctional Facility, which is slated to reopen later this year as an ICE facility. Demonstrators called on local leaders to block the project.

Jessica Hernandez, a resident of Greeley, said her family’s personal experience with immigration detention still affects them nearly two decades later.

“It’s going to cause panic with our community,” Hernandez said.

Hernandez said her husband was arrested by immigration authorities in 2006 for being in the country unlawfully. He spent two months at a Texas facility and another four months at the Aurora de

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