Demonstrators protest against potential new immigrant detention centers in Colorado outside the Hudson Correctional Facility on Sept. 13. Dormant prisons in Hudson and Walsenburg have been eyed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for expansion this year. (Photo by Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline)
Two months after it became public that Walsenburg could soon host a detention center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, there has been more speculation and debate over the issue than actual answers from the federal agency.
“I suspect we will be one of the last to hear anything. Most likely, the media will be presented with an announcement from (private prison company) CoreCivic as to the opening long before we will be,” Karl Sporleder, a Huerfano County Commissioner whose district includes the site, wrote in an email…