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SJLF is working with local community activists and organizations to seek information and documentation via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request regarding the 2022 death of Mr. Melvin Calero-Mendoza at Aurora Detention Center, an immigration detention facility in Denver, CO. This is part of a larger effort by immigrants’ rights advocates, lawyers, and organizers to seek greater transparency and accountability for private contractors and ICE in the operation of immigration detention, as well as to support the Denver community in pushing for the closure of Aurora.
SJLF represents immigrant rights activists American Friends Service Committee and Jeanette Vizguerra seeking information and documentation via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request regarding the recent (and sudden) death of Mr. Melvin Calero-Mendoza at Aurora Detention Center, an immigration detention facility in Denver, CO. Aurora Detention Center is run by GEO Group, the largest private immigration detention operator in the country. This is part of a larger effort by immigrants’ rights advocates, lawyers, and organizers to seek greater transparency and accountability for private contractors and ICE in the operation of immigration detention, as well as to support the Denver community in pushing for the closure of Aurora. Colorado Congressman Jason Crow and U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper have recently requested an independent investigation of the death of Mr. Calero-Mendoza, the third death at Aurora Detention Facility since 2017.
