Colorado rejects conservative effort to require police to cooperate with immigration officers

Amendment 81 would have required law enforcement to notify federal agents if people accused of violent crimes were not lawfully present in US

Colorado voters have spurned a conservative group's effort to force police and prosecutors to aid the Trump administration's mass deportation agenda.

Amendment 81, which failed to receive 55% of the vote on Tuesday, would have required Colorado's law enforcement agents to notify federal immigration authorities if individuals accused of violent crime were not lawfully present in the US or if their legal status was undetermined.