A protester who allegedly was blocking employees’ vehicles at a parking area for workers at an immigration detention center in Aurora, Colorado, has been shot, but is expected to survive the injury.
And an employee of the privately run contract facility has been arrested.
It’s just the latest shooting that has happened because of confrontations created by those protesting America’s immigration laws and their enforcement in recent months.
The issue came to prominence in January when both Alex Pretti and Renee Good were shot and killed while apparently blocking or interfering with the duties of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The latest shooting, according to Denver’s Channel 7, happened when an employee of GEO Group, a private prison company that runs detention facilities across the U.S., allegedly fired a single shot at two women “who had blocked his vehicle from getting into the facility so he and others could begin their evening work shifts.”
Brandon Booth, 42, was detained by police.
“Investigators said that prior to the shooting, the women had shouted at Booth and his colleagues and had taken pictures of their vehicles before walking away. At that point, police said, Booth retrieved a personally owned pistol and shot at the two women, striking one ‘on her lower body,’” the report explained.
The victim’s name wasn’t released, but sustained injuries that were not thought to be life-threatening, according to Aurora police.
NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive.
42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.
— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) July 17, 2026
ICE detention center employee shoots peaceful protester—woman likely to survive.
He was mad that protest was delaying his trip home from work—started “verbal confrontation” with 2 woman.
Then got gun out of his car and shot at them—while they were walking away.
Brandon Booth… pic.twitter.com/DvnLuFiqIK
— LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻 (@LongTimeHistory) July 17, 2026
Todd Chamberlain, Aurora’s police chief, said, “This is a tragedy on all fronts, and the Aurora Police Department will investigate this incident with the same commitment to transparency and integrity as we do all shootings. Constitutional rights are a pivotal part of a just society – violence is not.”
Protesters battling President Donald’s border security plans have targeted the Aurora facility multiple times, and recently it came under renewed attack in a dispute over investigation into a tuberculosis case in a detainee there.
The attacks include those coming from far-left Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, who has spent a load of tax money chasing after dozens of lawsuits against the Trump administration but has concealed details of that spending from the public.
He said he wants to bring “GEO into compliance with the law.”
It has been under Weiser’s agenda that the state of Colorado repeatedly has tried to violate the U.S. Constitution by attacking the state’s Christians for their faith. Colorado has repeatedly demanded, in court and under penalty of criminal prosecution, that Christian business operators and counselors violate their faith and instead adopt the state-approved LGBT beliefs.
The state repeatedly has lost at the Supreme Court in its war against Christians.
While there have been several shootings involving ICE agents and suspects in border crackdown enforcements, the shootings involved protesters happened in January in Minneapolis.
Pretti, reports confirm, was described by authorities as a domestic terrorist who “wanted to do maximum damage.” He was filming ICE agents, apparently armed, when he was taken to the ground and shot during a confrontation with federal officers.
Good was shot by ICE officers while allegedly attempting “to run over” an ICE agent with her car.
