YOUR AD HERE »

3-year battle ends; ICE office opening this fall

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GREELEY ” A three-year battle to build an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Greeley is ending with an office opening this fall.

The issue was hotly contested shortly after Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck and others proposed the idea and asked Weld County commissioners and the Greeley City Council to support a local office.

A spokesman for Sen. Wayne Allard, who supported the new office, said it would shift enforcing crimes related to undocumented residents from the Weld County Sheriff’s Office to the appropriate federal agency. Weld County Sheriff John Cooke has estimated the county spends about $1.5 million a year on foreign-born inmates.



The office, which will be built on the west side of town, is expected to be completed by November.


Support Local Journalism

Support Local Journalism

As a Summit Daily News reader, you make our work possible.

Summit Daily is embarking on a multiyear project to digitize its archives going back to 1989 and make them available to the public in partnership with the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. The full project is expected to cost about $165,000. All donations made in 2023 will go directly toward this project.

Every contribution, no matter the size, will make a difference.