The sanctuary mayor of Denver, Colorado, Mike Johnston, would rather protect violent gang criminals than tax-paying citizens. He vowed such drastic action to shield Tren de Aragua members from lawful deportation that he had to walk back one of his promises. He won’t be ordering the local police to refuse cooperation with federal law enforcement. The fury generated by that particular declaration slapped him back a little closer to reality. But not far enough.
Denver mayor defiant
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston “has vowed to shield migrants in his sanctuary city from mass deportation.” The plans he announced in an interview of “using local cops” have already been shot full of holes.
He’s clinging to hopes of 50,000 residents he envisions “stationed at the county line.” That’ he insists would be his sanctuary city’s “Tiananmen Square moment.”
It’s not clear why Mayor Johnston is fixated on the “county line.” Nobody has any plans of setting up “checkpoints” but Johnston appears to have hallucinated some. “More than us having [federal agents] stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there.”
The Democrat is confidant he can raise that size army of Denver activists. He’ll do anything at all to stop President Trump from deporting Tren de Aragua members.
Johnston is apparently a legend in his own mind. Referring to the “famous caught-on-video showdown between a Chinese student and government tank in Tiananmen Square in China during the 1989 rebellion there,” the mayor of Denver wants to make a stand.
“It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment, right?” He pondered. “You’d have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. And you do not want to mess with them.” ICE agents can cope.
To the mat
Denver residents, the Democrat mayor believes, are “prepared to go to the mat against the federal government.” The need for cheap domestic labor and landscapers outweighs the violence and rising crime. Since December of 2022, “roughly 40,000 migrants have flocked to the Mile High City.”
That means they’ve been pulling in a lot more than New York City, even though Eric Adams gets all the headlines. With that influx “came a surge in migrant crime tied to the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua.” Mayor Johnston calls that “progress.”
Denver managed to shift most of the violent crime committed by the Venezuelan street gang into the neighboring suburb of Aurora. There, the gangsters have efficiently “taken over apartment complexes and engaged in vicious incidents.”
According to City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky, Johnston must be high on meth from hanging out at the library. The mayor’s ill conceived plan, she predicts, “will just further show how unproductive he is.” She meant to say “totally loony” but toned it down.
“If Mayor Johnston wants to stand at the Denver border with, I believe he said, Highland moms, or something to that effect,” he’s dreaming. She may not agree with the mass deportation order but won’t stand in it’s way.
“Aurora does not plan to provide the Trump administration any assistance, as far as I know, but we will certainly not stand in the way of what the American people voted for.” Elon Musk heard about his plan and made a post. Johnston’s threat, Musk tapped, shows “the mayor of Denver hates his constituents.“
