{"id":48679,"date":"2021-02-11T13:38:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T20:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-lawmakers-will-hear-a-bill-about-data-sharing-with-federal-agencies\/"},"modified":"2021-02-11T20:38:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T20:38:13","slug":"colorado-lawmakers-will-hear-a-bill-about-data-sharing-with-federal-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-lawmakers-will-hear-a-bill-about-data-sharing-with-federal-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado lawmakers will hear a bill about data sharing with federal agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Colorado Capitol.<\/span>The Colorado Sun<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The proposed legislation announced Thursday at a press conference with state lawmakers and immigrant rights groups, is a response to emails obtained through an open records request by the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition which revealed \u201cunsanctioned data sharing\u201d between the state\u2019s Division of Motor Vehicles and ICE agents.<\/p>\n

Arash Jahanian, director of policy and civil rights litigation at the Meyer Law Office in Denver, said there were hundreds of families potentially affected by the data sharing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen allowed, ICE mines the personal information entrusted to state agencies to carry out its lawless mission, turning state officials who should be serving and protecting their residents into ICE\u2019s henchmen to the detriment of the community,\u201d Jahanian said.<\/p>\n

Under the bill, personal information cannot be used for immigration enforcement, Jahanian said. Personal information would only be disclosed for criminal law enforcement with a warrant, subpoena or another order signed by a judge.<\/p>\n

Because of the health and economic concerns of the coronavirus pandemic, compounded with the trauma of immigration policy under the Trump administration, Sen. Julie Gonzales, a Democrat from Denver and one of the bill sponsors, said the fear has caused undocumented families and individuals to withdraw and lose trust in local government.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is our responsibility in the state to ensure that all Coloradans have trust in our state agencies. That trust has been broken and its on us to make it right,\u201d Gonzales said.<\/p>\n

The fear of their undocumented status being shared has prevented many from accessing medical services, day care enrollment and food banks, said Maria Alba\u00f1il-Rangel, immigrant advocacy coordinator with Tri-County Health Network.<\/p>\n

The fear has also affected immigrant communities during the pandemic with hesitancy toward contact tracing and receiving a vaccine.<\/p>\n

Colorado announced that the state would not require an ID for vaccine access. But Gonzales said that \u201cfear is an overriding emotion\u201d and still prevents families from wanting to put themselves at risk.<\/p>\n

Alba\u00f1il-Rangel shared her own experience with two undocumented parents. Her father was deported in 2012 and she feared the same for her mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day I lived in a constant fear that by outing my mother, even if it was in scholarship application, I ran the risk of losing her, too. And that is the reality that most of our families are facing,\u201d Alba\u00f1il-Rangel said.<\/p>\n

The bill will be introduced after the Colorado lawmakers return to the Capitol for the 2021 legislative session on Feb. 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Colorado Capitol.The Colorado Sun The proposed legislation announced Thursday at a press conference with state lawmakers and immigrant rights groups, is a response to emails obtained through an open records request by the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition which revealed \u201cunsanctioned data sharing\u201d between the state\u2019s Division of Motor Vehicles and ICE agents. Arash Jahanian, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-48679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48679"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=48679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}