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Colorado Voters Reject Amendment 81 Requiring Police to Notify Federal Agents

Colorado voters rejected Amendment 81, which would have required law enforcement to notify federal agents about people accused of violent crimes who were not lawfully present in the United States, The Guardian reported.

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Colorado voters have rejected Amendment 81, a measure that would have required law enforcement to notify federal agents when people accused of violent crimes were not lawfully present in the United States, according to a report by The Guardian. The amendment failed to receive 55% of the vote on Tuesday, the outlet reported.

The Guardian described the measure as an effort by a conservative group to force police and prosecutors to aid the Trump administration's "mass deportation agenda." The outlet's report, written by Uwa Ede-Osifo, does not name the group in the text available for this story.

The Guardian's summary begins to describe what the measure would have required under Colorado's law, but the text ends mid-sentence, so the remaining provisions are not described here.

In the summary available for this story, The Guardian presents the result as voters having turned away the conservative group's effort.

The excerpt gives no vote totals, no official certification, and no statements from the group, election officials or law enforcement agencies. No other outlet's coverage was provided for this story, so this account rests on a single source.

Sources: The Guardian: Colorado rejects conservative effort to require police to cooperate with immigration officers.

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