Aurora immigration court sees spike in removals

As immigrant arrests and detentions have increased, more and more detainees in Aurora’s detention center are being ordered to leave the country — either at their own request or under a removal order issued by a judge.

Immigration removals
2017-August 2025*

*The clearinghouse provided no voluntary departure data for a handful of months in prior years. For the purposes of this graphic, The Denver Post assumed there were no voluntary departures granted in those months, as they occurred in time periods where voluntary departures were otherwise very low.
Chart: Kevin Hamm / The Denver PostSource: Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse/Syracuse UniversityGet the dataCreated with Datawrapper