New ICE detention center confirmed, Pena Blvd traffic solutions, a teenaged secession push

The GEO Group is under contract to open a new immigrant detention center at the site of a former private prison in Weld County, and residents’ views are mixed. Then, getting to and from the airport increasingly means sitting in traffic on Peña Boulevard. Now the airport wants the public to help it develop a solution. Plus, as the nation turns 250 years old, we meet the Boulder teenager on a stubborn quest to ask voters to leave the union.

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Read more on the stories in today’s show:

• CPR’s Tom Hesse on the helicopter pilot who died fighting the Gold Mountain fire.
• CPR’s Allison Sherry on the ICE facility coming to Hudson, and CPR’s Ava Kian on how locals are reacting.
• Denverite’s Paolo Zialcita on the proposals for a Peña Blvd redesign.
• Westword’s Hannah Metzger on the Boulder teen behind a raft of secessionist ballot measures. 

This episode of Colorado Today is hosted by Arlo Pérez Esquivel. It’s edited and produced by Mateo Schimpf, Madilyn Rose, Arlo Pérez Esquivel and Tyler Bender. The executive producer is Megan Verlee. Theme music by Pedro Lumbraño.