Joining a wave of similar rulings elsewhere in the country, a federal judge in Denver ordered the release of a man held for five months in Aurora’s detention center and ruled that federal immigration authorities’ new policy of denying bail to longtime, undocumented residents of the United States “likely violates federal law.”

The ruling, released Friday night, also temporarily prohibits federal immigration authorities from deporting or transferring that man, Nestor Gutierrez, and similar immigrants without legal status currently being detained in Colorado. U.S. District Court Judge Regina M. Rodriguez’s order appears to apply to detained immigrants who’ve lived in the U.S. for years and who, for more than two decades, would’ve been able to seek temporary release while their immigration ca

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