Denver’s top immigration enforcement official said he was reassigned to Virginia effective earlier this week, amid a broader shakeup among the ranks of the federal agency tasked with arresting and deporting millions of immigrants without legal status.

Robert Guadian, the now-former head of the Denver field office for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, confirmed Thursday, while testifying remotely in federal court as part of a lawsuit alleging that ICE has conducted waves of warrantless and illegal arrests in the state, that he has been relieved of his duties in Colorado. He said he had been reassigned to the ICE’s field office in Virginia , which also oversees Washington, and that his reassignment became effective last Sunday.

Guadian, who took over Denver’s federal immigration enf

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