Judge Denies Denver Public Schools Request to Ban ICE Raids on K-12 Campuses, DHS, DPS, Homeland Security, immigration enforcement

Judge Daniel Domenico said he was reluctant to issue a nationwide injunction against Homeland Security, saying DPS had not met the burden needed for the order.

U.S. District Judge Daniel Domenico, a Trump appointee, determined that the district failed to prove that the recent decline in student attendance was caused by the administration reversing a 2021 Biden-era policy that protected schools—and other sensitive locations like churches—from ICE raids.

A federal judge says he won't order immigration authorities to revert to a Biden-era policy limiting arrests at schools after officials in Denver challenged new policies from the Trump administration.

The judge ruled in favor of the Trump administration, which said it's not doing mass roundups inside schools and needs the ability to arrest people outside schools.

The federal judge overseeing Denver Public Schools' challenge to the Trump administration's new policy for immigration operations announced on Monday that he will hold a hearing on the district's request for a restraining order — a seeming about-face from his position one week ago.

When President Trump began his second term, the Department of Homeland Security lifted restrictions on immigration arrests at schools, hospitals and places of worship. Late Friday, a federal judge denied a request by Denver Public Schools to pause the new policy.