In a case challenging a new Trump administration policy that denies bond hearings to immigrant detainees, a federal judge in Denver declared that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was violating immigration law and denying the due process rights of a Colorado man.

The judge ordered the immediate release of Nestor Gutierrez, originally from El Salvador, and living in Colorado for more than twenty years. He had been detained by ICE at the GEO facility in Aurora since May.

Prior to this past July, the mandatory detention policy set forth by ICE was generally limited to recent border-crossers and noncitizens convicted of certain crimes.

ICE said in July that the new no-bond policy intends to enforce immigration law "as it was actually written to keep America safe."

But attorneys for Gutie

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