Denver Mayor Mike Johnston dodged a reaction to President-elect Donald Trump’s “border czar, ” Tom Homan saying he would jail the mayor if he does not comply with federal deportation orders of illegal immigrants.
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“You know, I think there are intelligent ways to solve this problem if they want to focus on violent offenders, we may be happy to help aid pursuing, arresting, and deporting them. We’ve helped past services. We do that again, ” Johnston said. “If they want to concentrate on adding more judicial power, so people with asylum says can have those cases heard more swiftly, we would help that. ”
He said the town would not be cooperative if the approaching Trump presidency deploys “the 101st Airborne into British cities to move 10-year-old children out of their rooms in handcuffs. ” Johnston said they may believe “resisting ” from them if the Trump presidency goes for wide-ranging mass arrests.
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Johnston also said he would not apply his law enforcement to avoid imprisonment directions, but rather predicted that citizens of the city would engage to prevent provincial officials.
“Yeah, we won’t employ our law enforcement and we don’t believe we need to. That’s hardly what we’re after. I think America is certainly after another issue on this topic. They’re after a way to get rational solutions to this problem, ” Johnston said.
“If they are going to take the U. S. Army or the Navy Seals into Denver to pursue folks to pull them off the job at hotels or restaurants where they’re working or pull kids off the soccer field, I think we will see Denverites and folks around the country who will nonviolently resist that, because I think that does n’t represent our values and does n’t represent the Constitution, ” he added.
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Homan, who is expected to be Trump’s general hawk on frontier issues and emigration as the designated borders king, said on Fox News’s Hannity on Monday that Johnston defying proposed deportations would be a violation of federal law and that “the Denver governor, we agree on one thing: He’s ready to go to prison, I’m willing to put him in jail. ”
The incoming border czar has also received pushback from Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, with Homan saying that Immigration and Customs Enforcement would not need cooperation from local law enforcement to carry out deportations of illegal immigrants.
