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Allison Sherry

@allisonsherry.bsky.social

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Justice/Immigration reporter at Colorado Public Radio and sometimes National Public Radio. Mama/wife. I do this to hold people accountable.

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Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · 2d

How much rain did we get overall? Wondering if I can leave the sprinklers off for awhile!

Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · 3d

Particularly newsworthy at this moment because assaults on ICE officers are one of the reasons the federal government is using to send federal troops in to cities.

Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · 3d

ICYM: @cprmarkus.bsky.social and I finished this piece last week and it landed Friday amid a busy news day. We could find no evidence that ICE's claims that assaults on their agents have gone up 1,000 percent nationally. Or in Colorado.

www.cpr.org/2025/10/02/i...

Claims of huge rise in assaults against ICE drive responses, but aren’t seen in available data

Despite repeated requests from CPR News for data to support the assault claims — ICE and Homeland Security have produced nothing but a handful of anecdotes.

Reposted by Allison Sherry

Caitlyn Kim @caitlynkim.bsky.social · 7d

Claims of huge rise in assaults against ICE drive responses, but aren’t seen in available data www.cpr.org/2025/10/02/i... via @cprmarkus.bsky.social & @allisonsherry.bsky.social

Claims of huge rise in assaults against ICE drive responses, but aren’t seen in available data

Despite repeated requests from CPR News for data to support the assault claims — ICE and Homeland Security have produced nothing but a handful of anecdotes.

Reposted by Allison Sherry

Marianne Goodland @mgoodland.bsky.social · 14d

Not licensed to practice in Colorado, according to search of state database.

Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · Sep 4

My latest: Colorado being asked to hand over Medicaid data by House Republicans www.cpr.org/2025/09/04/r...

House Republicans demand health care and Medicaid data from Colorado

Specifically, they’re demanding lists and information about costs associated with operations and medical procedures done on people unauthorized to be in the country.

Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · Sep 2

My latest: professional musician and his family fight immigration case.

www.cpr.org/2025/09/02/i...

Professional Korean musician and family fight his immigration case in Aurora

Utah musician John Shin received a call from immigration authorities who said on the phone that they were from Fort Carson. When he arrived to meet with them, ICE agents took him into custody.

Reposted by Allison Sherry

Caitlyn Kim @caitlynkim.bsky.social · Aug 26

Gov. Polis, AG Weiser, Denver Mayor all clap back against Trump’s immigration lawsuit www.cpr.org/2025/08/26/c... via @allisonsherry.bsky.social #copolitics

Gov. Polis, AG Weiser, Denver Mayor all clap back against Trump’s immigration lawsuit

Colorado is among a handful of states the administration has sued for its so-called sanctuary policies.

Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · Aug 19

Two of those people are in Colombia and are being brought back for it.

Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · Aug 19

They wouldn't answer how many of the 30 people indicted were Venezuelans or how many TdA members are in Colorado. They did say 8 of the 30 were either leaders or in the gang.

Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · Aug 19

And why am I not there?

Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · Aug 19

So the feds had a press conference today announcing they cracked down on the Venezuelan gang TdA. But then none of the actual charges are tied to gangs, RICO or gang affiliations.

www.cpr.org/2025/08/18/d...

Feds announce drug and gun charges, then make gang claims they won’t have to prove

Monday’s press conference was a repackaging of months of arrest warrants, indictments and superseding indictments as the number of defendants grew.

Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · Aug 14

www.cpr.org/2025/08/13/c...

Another Colorado judge is ordering federal agents to stop making immigration arrests at courthouses

A judge for six south central Colorado counties warned ICE and others that ignoring her order could mean legal trouble.

Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · Aug 14

Another Colorado judge is ordering federal agents to stop making immigration arrests at courthouses

Reposted by Allison Sherry

Caitlyn Kim @caitlynkim.bsky.social · Aug 5

Colorado, Denver named again as ‘sanctuary’ spots for unauthorized new arrivals, fight continues in court www.cpr.org/2025/08/05/j... via @allisonsherry.bsky.social #copolitics

Colorado, Denver named again as ‘sanctuary’ spots for unauthorized new arrivals, fight continues in court

The federal government also thinks the state is wrong to seek sanctions against a Mesa County Sheriff deputy cooperating with ICE.

Reposted by Allison Sherry

Caitlyn Kim @caitlynkim.bsky.social · Aug 4

Could tracking denied gun sales help prevent tragedies? Experts think so www.cpr.org/2025/08/04/r... via @allisonsherry.bsky.social #copolitics

Could tracking denied gun sales help prevent tragedies? Experts think so

Gun purchase denials — which are immediately reported to local law enforcement, federal immigration officials and some prosecutors — could be useful intelligence. But is anyone making use of the data?

Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · Aug 4

Just a little more than 5k Coloradans last year failed background checks to buy weapons. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation, which just received an additional $1.4 million for this very purpose, investigated about 90 of these people. That yielded about 30 arrests.

Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · Aug 4

The tl;dr version of all of this is that very, VERY seldom does anyone do anything with this tidy list of people who try to buy guns when they're not supposed to.

Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · Aug 4

This story was a true reporting rabbit hole that started when I looked into how officials treated the failed background check reports created when Mohamad Soliman, the man accused of firebombing people on the Pearl Street Mall, tried to buy weapons for his attack.

Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · Aug 4

My latest: State officials lag, or outright ignore, people who fail background checks when trying to buy a gun

www.cpr.org/2025/08/04/r...

Could tracking denied gun sales help prevent tragedies? Experts think so

Gun purchase denials — which are immediately reported to local law enforcement, federal immigration officials and some prosecutors — could be useful intelligence. But is anyone making use of the data?

Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · Jul 22

State AG Phil Weiser both sues an individual sheriff's deputy for sharing information about a woman he stopped with ICE and launches a patterns and practices investigation on 4 law enforcement agencies on whether they're purposefully breaking state law on information sharing with ICE.

Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · Jul 22

latest:

www.cpr.org/2025/07/22/c...

Colorado's Attorney General wants to know if Western Slope law enforcement agencies are working with ICE

Phil Weiser said he would file a lawsuit against a Mesa County Sheriff’s deputy who pulled over a Utah college student and shared her personal information with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security...

Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · Jul 22

latest:

www.cpr.org/2025/07/22/c...

Colorado's Attorney General wants to know if Western Slope law enforcement agencies are working with ICE

Phil Weiser said he would file a lawsuit against a Mesa County Sheriff’s deputy who pulled over a Utah college student and shared her personal information with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security...

Reposted by Allison Sherry

Stephanie Wolf @stephrwolf.bsky.social · Jun 30

Karen Diamond, who had been hospitalized since June 1, has died from “severe injuries that she suffered in the attack," according to a statement from Boulder District Attorney Michael Dougherty.

Reporting from @allisonsherry.bsky.social

www.cpr.org/2025/06/30/b...

Victim in Boulder firebomb attack dies weeks after being in hospital, suspect now faces first-degree murder charges

Karen Diamond was 82 years old and suffered severe injuries in the June 1 attack.

Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · Jun 28

www.cpr.org/2025/06/27/i...

W/ @cprmarkus.bsky.social

ICE says it will stop letting detainees go to criminal court in some Colorado counties

In an email sent this week, ICE said it would still honor court appearances, but only if those appearances can be made over video links from the detention center.

Allison Sherry @allisonsherry.bsky.social · Jun 26

Colorado mandated reporting on police violence after George Floyd's murder. Five years later, the data is mostly useless. Reporting w/ @cprmarkus.bsky.social

www.cpr.org/2025/06/26/c...

Colorado mandated reporting on police violence, five years later, the data is mostly useless

Some of Colorado's largest departments say computer problems have prevented their full data from being presented by the state. Other departments just haven’t provided any information and the state has...