Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has filed a lawsuit against a Colorado sheriff’s deputy, holding him liable for allegedly cooperating with federal immigration officials. Weiser made the announcement on Tuesday.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is suing a sheriff's deputy who Weiser says told ICE officials in an encrypted Signal chat to a woman who was allegedly in the U.S. on an expired visa, in violation of state law.

According to the state investigation, Zwinck provided his location to the federal immigration officers in the chat and then stalled Dias Goncalves for at least five minutes, asking her about her national origin,