Criminal illegal alien? You’ve got a home in Denver
The mayor of Denver isn’t the only one asserting a city or state’s “sanctuary” status, but he’s threatening armed resistance:
The Democrat Mayor of Denver, Colorado Mike Johnston has challenged Trump to try to deport any illegal migrants from his city, saying he would deploy the Denver City Police and volunteers from the local community to use force against federal forces trying to deport illegals.
“More than us having DPD stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there. It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun… You’d have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. You don’t want to mess with them.”
High drama is being evoked, tanks mowing down mothers who are protecting innocent families. But Trump has made it clear – and I assume this will hold up – that the primary goal at this point is twofold: deport criminal aliens who are here illegally and are under already-existent deportation orders, and stop the vast influx of new illegal arrivals. Do those Highland moms of Denver really want to protect those who would traffic and/or rape their children, or at least commit fraud of various kinds?
Here’s a description of the “Highland moms,” in case you’re interested:
The “Highland moms” the mayor referred to are the group of citizens who organized donation drives for immigrants when waves of them started showing up in Denver toward the end of last year.
I wonder what the Highland moms have to say about this sort of thing (Aurora is a Denver suburb):
Chamberlain said police believe there are between 10 and 20 suspected members of the Tren de Aragua gang active in Aurora, out of roughly 1,100 members of various gangs identified in the city. At least nine Tren de Aragua members have been arrested, and a multi-agency task force is investigating the gang’s presence.
The whole question of Trump pledging to use the military is a complex one, and I may write a separate post about it sometime. But in the meantime here’s an article that goes into how it might be done. Note that Trump already declared a state of emergency in his first term regarding illegal border crossings. Here are some relevant excerpts:
“For basically the past 40 years, the military’s involvement at the border has been steadily growing,” said Joseph Nunn, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s School of Law, “And it has gone from sort of ad hoc to routine to deeply entrenched into how we approach border security and immigration.”
Members of the military stationed at the border have historically performed an array of support tasks, experts tell CBS News – from operating surveillance aircrafts and transporting U.S. Border Patrol personnel in helicopters to laying concertina wire and maintaining Customs and Border Protection vehicles.
Homan’s suggestions of using the military for some of the operational work that doesn’t involve engaging with migrants would fall under this category and would be an expansion of the duties National Guard and a small number of active-duty troops have performed at the southern border under previous administrations. As recently as last year, troops were deployed to the border to help Border Patrol with administrative tasks, like warehouse management and clerical work.
Military involvement now “is just essentially to get access to more bodies and more aircrafts,” Nunn explained, calling military mobilization a force multiplier. “Suppose you want to set up a checkpoint on a highway in Texas or Arizona. Under normal circumstances, you need five CBP agents to run a checkpoint. If you have access to military personnel, you can run a checkpoint with one CBP agent assisted by four soldiers. Then suddenly five CBP agents assisted by soldiers can run five checkpoints instead of one.”
It seems to me that a great deal of any military presence would be at the border. It also occurs to me that some of what Trump is saying is designed to discourage potential illegal entrants who are thinking of getting in while Biden is still nominally president.
“The mayor of Denver isn’t the only one asserting a city or state’s ‘sanctuary’ status, but he’s threatening armed resistance.”
So-o-o, would such “armed resistance” constitute [-gasp-] *insurrection*?
(Perish the very thought?)
Send in the Army? I’m amazed that these idiot politicians giving sanctuary to these violent criminal gangs think these people are going to be expelled peacefully and without a fight. No, they’ve just landed in the promised land and they’re going to fight to stay here, and by “fight”, I mean with guns.
I expect this misguided attempt to give sanctuary to these criminals will further move the Democratic Party towards its well deserved demise. This will be a PR disaster of the first order, just wait and see.
Johnson is so full of crap it is oozing out of his ears. First, I call bullshit that 50k city people are ready to defend their city. With what? Unless they armed up prior to 2013…
Really??? He would deploy the DPD to use force against the feds. Doesn’t this violate all sorts of laws up to treason?
As for the citizen’s resistance, well they do what they want and face the consequences of civil disobedience.
Denver sure has changed from when I grew up there.
Time will tell whether the Denver mayor and others of his ilk are that divorced from the new reality or virtue signaling with no intent to make good on their threats. If I were Tom Homan, proclaimed sanctuaries would be first on my list of targets.
As a native of Colorado, the Californication of the state has been
disgusting to see.
I have many relatives in the state. Most are Democrats, unfortunately.
They seem to believe that allowing undocumented aliens into the country isn’t a big problem. The crime, drugs, sexual trafficking, and stress on schools and hospitals don’t register with them. 🙁
Here’s an article that delineates the way blue states and cities are going to fight back against the deportation plans.
“Bonta said his team has prepared briefs on several immigration issues that Trump mentioned on the campaign trail. including mass deportations, birthright citizenship, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and sanctuary cities.
“There will be pain and harm inflicted by him. It is not all avoidable, but to get to our immigrant communities in ways that are in violation of the law, they’re going to have to go through me, and we will stop them in courts using our legal tools given to us,” Bonta said.” Bona is the California AG.
Read it all:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/immigration-litigation-prepared-advocacy-groups-democratic-leaders/story?id=115915848
I am sitting right now in the city of Glendale, surrounded by Denver. Denver almost went broke last yr because of the illegals. Johnston bused some to other CO cities. There might be a lot more that would welcome the Feds. A lot of local Hispanic citizens can’t be happy with illegals getting all the bennies, while help for them is nonexistent. Denver also has a very large Black population, that aren’t happy either.
“Mayor of Denver Seems to Walk Back Threat to Use Police to Prevent Deportations”
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/11/23/mayor-of-denver-seems-to-walk-back-threat-to-use-police-to-prevent-deportations-n2404172
J.J.:
It’s really frustrating that the west coast transplants seem to have taken over the state. Sadly, the state will become even more blue when Trump moves Space Command to Alabama.
https://nypost.com/2024/11/21/us-news/venezuelan-migrant-charged-with-raping-bosss-teen-daughter/
So, the dreaded Highland Moms, “a group of citizens who organized donation drives for immigrants,” will arm themselves and confront Federal authorities??
What is their Venn diagram overlap with Antifa?
Obstruction anyone? Time for AG Bondi to pull out the federal obstruction statutes and find the one that applies to state and local officials who interfere with federal law enforcement?
@ Bauxite > “pull out the federal obstruction statutes”
IIRC, the last time the Democrat feds cried “obstruction,” it was to stop states which were trying to ENFORCE the actual immigration laws.
I don’t know about the Highland Moms, but I would suspect very few of them are armed and dangerous. They would be deployed by the Democrats to stand in the way of Trump’s forces and dare them to shoot.
Setting up a Kent State, more than a Tiananmen Square, situation.
Judging by the current armed security in some of my stores in a different suburb city near Denver, I don’t think our municipality is going to be on-board with Mayor Johnson’s agenda.
(I commented on that recently, but don’t remember which post.)
Along with Neo’s bunch of questions, I have never gotten a really satisfactory answer to why Democrats are not willing to at least obstruct the entry of and/or deport actual, adjudicated (or clearly guilty) rapists, murderers, and gang/cartel members (big overlap in the Venn diagram).
It seems to me that meeting conservatives (including other Democrats) “halfway” on that issue would have diffused the anger of a lot of their members who ended up voting for Trump because of the Biden Inc Immigration Invasion’s impact on their own lives.
Like a good leftest, the mayor’s heart bleeds for the currently useful downtrodden masses, while not giving a damn about the mayhem unleashed on individual citizens as civilized society is destroyed. The deportations are going to happen because it’s the will of the people. The mayor will regret standing in the doorway.
AesopFan – The issue with Obama and AZ was more about the discretion of the President to see enforcement priorities, not obstruction. Well, the presidency is on the other foot now.
I lived in Colorado from the late 60s through the 80s and experienced firsthand, and relatively often, Chicano racism toward whites, supremicist thinking, and violent (and rampant) criminality. I cohabited with my wife-to-be in a house located in a majority Chicano neighborhood and had frequent dangerous encounters with our racist belligerent Chicano neighbors. I was loath to take shit from them, and that attitude nearly got me killed on more than one occasion. I finally convinced her to sell her house and she did, and we moved to the much safer (and anglo) Washington Park neighborhood.
Sorry, but I don’t like . . . “those people.” Experience is a hard teacher.
Now more than ever I want the southern border sealed and illegal aliens deported.
Trump should gather up 50,000 illegals from elsewhere and drop them off the mayor’s residence.
When did it become the duty of American politicians to put illegal aliens ahead of American citizens?
An aspect of this is indubitably what Mr. Sailer refers to as ‘leapfrogging loyalties’. The professional guilds from which the Democratic Party draws its candidates are simply TWANLOC. (Recall Peter Sztrok’s commmentary on Walmart shoppers). That aside, illegal aliens are clientele for some of those same occupational guilds and fodder for the Democratic Party vote farm.
The Denver situation (and similar cities) will be a key test for the incoming Trump administration. Similarly, we’ll see what they do when the first federal judge rules that deportations are unconstitutional. As I recall, at the outset of Trump 1.0, some judge ruled thusly after some rather mild border enforcement was put into place. And that was the end of that. Hope this time is different.
The idiot is grand standing.
Tuco: When you have to shoot, shoot; don’t talk.
@ Art Deco > “The professional guilds from which the Democratic Party draws its candidates are simply TWANLOC”
Frank Hood is a regular commenter at Sarah Hoyt’s blog.
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Mike Mike Mike, what’s feeble, weak, and goes squish under the treads of an APC?