By Chase Woodruff | senior reporter
“I’m not asking Hudson to take a side in a national debate. I’m asking Hudson to follow its own rules, the same rules it would make anybody else follow.”
— Emily Shanks, Hudson resident
The dormant Hudson Correctional Facility is pictured on Sept. 4, 2025. (Photo by Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline)
By Chase Woodruff
The town of Hudson has refused for months to take any steps to review and enforce its zoning code as it applies to a planned immigration detention center there, say the plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to block the facility — and three Hudson residents are now joining them. The GEO Group, a private prison company, has announced a five-year contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to reopen a dormant Hudson prison as a 1,200-bed immigration detention center.
President Donald Trump shakes hands with newly sworn in Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin during a ceremony in the Oval Office at the White House on March 24, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
By Ariana Figueroa
Temporary protected status for 170,000 Salvadorans was set to expire at midnight Wednesday, but the Department of Homeland Security said protections will remain in place until the Trump administration makes a decision to extend or terminate El Salvador’s designation, in place since 2001. “An announcement on El Salvador’s TPS will be made at the appropriate time,” a DHS spokesperson said in an email to States Newsroom.
Students work in a classroom. The nation’s two largest school districts banned AI use for most students this school year. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)
By Robbie Sequeira
The country’s two largest school districts — New York City and Los Angeles — banned most student use of artificial intelligence in classrooms for this school year as anxiety over AI’s effect on learning intensifies. The Los Angeles Unified School District announced last week that it is barring student use of generative AI on school-issued devices for the current school year. New York City Public Schools last week announced a similar but less broad approach.
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