Judge Daniel Domenico said he was reluctant to issue a nationwide injunction against Homeland Security, saying DPS had not met the burden needed for the order.

U.S. District Judge Daniel Domenico, a Trump appointee, determined that the district failed to prove that the recent decline in student attendance was caused by the administration reversing a 2021 Biden-era policy that protected schools—and other sensitive locations like churches—from ICE raids.

DPS is believed to be the first school district in the nation to sue the Trump administration over the end of a policy that largely prevented federal agents from making immigration arrests at

A federal judge on Friday denied Denver Public Schools’ attempt to reinstate a policy that treated schools as “sensitive locations” for the purposes of immigration enforcement.

The judge ruled in favor of the Trump administration, which said it's not doing mass roundups inside schools and needs the ability to arrest people outside schools.

The federal judge overseeing Denver Public Schools' challenge to the Trump administration's new policy for immigration operations announced on Monday that he will hold a hearing on the district's request for a restraining order — a seeming about-face from his position one week ago.

The U.S. Constitution guarantees a free public education to every child, regardless of immigration status, but a new Trump administration policy gives ICE agents more leeway to target schools, bus stops and other educational facilities.

Immigration authorities don't need to revert to a Biden-era policy limiting arrests at schools after officials in Denver challenged new policies from the Trump administration, a federal judge ruled Friday.