A new lawsuit accuses the Trump administration of using a secret subpoena to force Colorado officials to ignore state laws and hand over private financial information of residents sponsoring unaccompanied immigrant children. The state’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis is allegedly demanding that those state officials comply under threat of termination, according to court documents reviewed by The Lever.
The previously undisclosed Trump administration subpoena was detailed in an explosive new whistleblower lawsuit filed in state court on Thursday. The alleged subpoena targeting information protected by state privacy laws represents a significant escalation of the Trump administration’s nationwide immigration crackdown — and the lawsuit’s allegations also prompt new questions about Democrats’ cooperation.
The suit, spearheaded by one of Polis’s top labor officials, accuses the Democratic governor of actively aiding the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and pressuring his employees to violate privacy statutes Polis himself signed into law in 2021 and in May 2025.
“The Polis directive to collaborate with [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] is illegal,” states the complaint written by attorneys for Scott Moss, who serves as the Polis administration’s Director of the Division of Labor Standards and Statistics. “It also harms an unknown but potentially large number of state employees, by directing them to commit illegal acts, risking a wide range of professional and...
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