Dopey Denver Mayor Mike Johnston Ready To Go to Jail To Protect Illegal Immigrants From Deportation
The Mayor of Denver City, Colorado, Mike Johnston, claims he’s willing to go to jail to prevent the deportation of illegal immigrants.
Denver is among numerous blue cities that have passed sanctuary ordinances to protect the illegal immigrants plaguing their communities from deportation. Trump has promised the largest mass deportation of illegal immigrants in America’s history – and the left is freaking out.
Trump’s “border czar,” former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Tom Homan, has threatened to arrest leaders who attempt to interfere with the planned deportations.
“Trump’s new border czar, Tom Homan, has said that he is willing to arrest leaders like yourself for standing in the way of these policies that they want to enact.
“Would you be willing to go to jail for these things?” 9News’ Marc Sallinger asked Johnston.
“Yeah, I’m not afraid of that, and I’m also not seeking that,” he responded.
The Mayor also insisted on civil disobedience if federal agents attempted to remove illegal immigrants from the city.
“You talk about civil disobedience. You’ve mentioned that a couple of times. Now, would you be willing to participate in those as Mayor of Denver?” Sallinger asked.
“I would if I believe that our residents are having their rights violated. If I think things are happening that are illegal, or immoral, or un-American in our city, I would certainly protest it and I would expect other residents would do the same.”
Johnston has also said that all options were on the table and that Americans, including “terrified” schoolchildren, would not sit and watch their classmates of undocumented immigration status deported.
“I talked to some high school kids this week who were terrified about this. I don’t think those kids are gonna stand there and watch three of their classmates get pulled out of a history class while the other 27 stand by and do nothing.”
Mayor Johnston has also threatened to incite people to protest against Trump’s deportations and deploy Denver Police officers to stop federal agents from executing deportation orders.
“More than us having DPD stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there,” Johnston told Denverite.
“It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun, right? You’d have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. And you do not want to mess with them.”
Johnston has since tried to take back those statements but insists that he would still oppose the deportation of illegal immigrants.
Prior to the election, most Americans expressed their opposition to illegal immigration and followed through by handing President Trump a landslide victory. Yet, the Democratic elite is still in denial and refuses to honor the will of the American voters.
Meanwhile, Denver remains a hotspot for illegal immigration, recording up to 10,000 arrivals per day in 2023. With a population of just about 710,000, the city hosts 40,000 undocumented individuals, becoming the most impacted per capita.
Additionally, the city offers illegal immigrants government assistance, such as food and shelter, including paid hotel stays, to help them illegally settle in the United States.
Subsequently, the migrant crisis cost Denver over $60 million, while the city’s budget deficit reached about $120 million, resulting in cutbacks in various services. Denver Health, part of the city’s “safety net” that also treats illegal immigrants regardless of their ability to pay, has unpaid medical bills amounting to $10 million.
Denver started sending illegal immigrants who exceeded their stay in shelters onto the city streets in February 2024. While some left or found shelter elsewhere, the crisis fueled homelessness, crime, drug abuse, housing shortage, and skyrocketing rent prices.
And in the mind of a liberal leader, stopping someone from cleaning this mess up is worth going to jail over.
The man is openly admitting that he will protect illegals, aka, criminals over his citizens. I wonder how many legal votes he’ll get next time he runs for office.
When you think the Dems can’t get any more stupid, they go and open up their mouth!
Johnston must be sucking up the straw powder on a regular basis.
Then Jail him. He needs to follow laws like everyone else.
Democrats for, say, two decades said that unskilled workers from the 3rd world would be a boon for the US economny. I suppose that goes for both legal and illegals aliens. How come this is not working out in Denver?
You can see he’s a fool
Keep every cent of his pay for their upkeep. See how long it would be to change his mind!
Once the illegals realize they are going to be deported they will flock to these sanctuary cities quickly overwhelming them with with all their needs. Hopefully there will be NO FEDERAL AID forthcoming as this is a problem they created and can be easily remedied by removing them. Me thinks by the next election there will be a new mayor in town.
F around , find out.
Johnston should re-examine the tea leaves. The city of Denver, his state, our country are tired of these illegal freeloaders.
If he continues to resist, Gov. Abbot knows where to bus his catches.
Out vets and citizens should come first.
Now that’s what I call insurrection.
Gee…… I guess “ILLEGAL” has no meaning anymore. These uneducated, unskilled, non-english-speaking vagabonds are beckoned to our country be liberal democrats who promise then free everything, including lodging in top-of-the-line HOTELS with free Room Service, I can see why millions living in S**t-H**e garbage dump countries are forming CONVOYS of thousands who have no qualifications for ANY actual kind of JOB AND they expect to BE HIRED to flip Mickey’D’s burgers and get paid $15.00 an hour for it. The “Major News Networks” never mention anything about all the diseases, like Tuberculosis, POLIO, Whooping Cough, and myriad others, are commonplace “discoveries” when they bet sick and get FREE hospitalization!
Yes we should deport people breaking our laws.
It is hard for me to blame them though since it seems like our current govt rewards them for breaking the law. Quit with the enticements.
You should go to jail. For continuing the destruction of a once beautiful city.