ICE arrest of student after traffic stop spotlights Colorado’s non-cooperation policy

On June 5, a University of Utah student was pulled over by a Mesa County police officer for following a semitrailer too closely.

Caroline Dias Goncalves was asked where she was born and was released with a warning.

But after exiting Interstate 70 at Loma, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stopped, arrested and took her to a detention center in Aurora. Dias Goncalves, who was born in Brazil and came to the U.S. under a tourist visa when she was 7, has been living in Utah for 12 years. She overstayed her visa about a decade ago and has a pending asylum case…

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