Federal officials said Aurora police declined to help in the search, but police department officials said the escape was not reported for almost five hours.

Two people who were detained at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Aurora have escaped and officials are hoping people can help find them.

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston decried Vizguerra’s detention as an abuse of power and “Putin-style persecution of political dissidents.”

A federal judge in Colorado issued an order blocking immigration officials from deporting “abolish ICE" activist and illegal immigrant Jeanette Vizguerra before a hearing.

A federal judge in Colorado on Friday issued an order calling on Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to deport prominent local immigrant rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra. State of play: The order calls on ICE and other Trump administration officials not to deport or move Vizguerra out of Colorado until her legal detention challenge is litigated,