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Anna Betts

US military allows Colorado base to hold detainees in immigrant roundup

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The Buckley air force base in Aurora, Colorado, in 2012. It became Buckley space force base in 2021. Photograph: Jeremy Papasso/Reuters

The US military is allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) to process and detain arrested undocumented immigrants at Buckley space force base in Colorado, according to multiple reports and a statement by the US Northern Command on Tuesday.

A spokesperson for the US Northern Command said in a statement shared by CBS News on Tuesday that, at the request of the Department of Homeland Security, facilities at Buckley space force base in Aurora, Colorado, had been made available to Ice officials for immigration operations starting on Monday 27 January.

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