AURORA, Colo. — At the Aurora ICE Processing Center, hundreds of people are being held, waiting to see if the United States of America will open its doors to them, offering them a path to citizenship, or close those doors to keep them out.

Colorado leaders on both sides of the political aisle have gone on record to say the immigration system is broken.

For the people navigating that system alongside their families, they describe the process as a state of waiting.

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Eight months of detention

In March 2025, ICE agents arrested immigrant rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra after a years-long deportation fight.

Vizguerra first came into the U.S. in 1997, fle

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