Denver mayor refuses to allow police to help deport Trump

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to use local authorities and possibly the military to carry out mass deportations of illegal immigrants across the country.

“The short answer is we won’t change it because it’s one of our core values,” Johnston said in an interview, referring to the city’s welcoming of immigrants. “And we are not going to sell these values ​​to anyone. We will not be forced to change them.

“I think we will continue to be a welcoming, open, generous city that adheres to our values,” Johnston said.

Trump has tried to use cases like Laken Riley’s murder to justify securing the border and deporting illegal immigrants.

“We love you, Laken, and our hearts will always be with you,” Trump wrote Wednesday on Truth Social after her killer was convicted of murder. “It’s time to secure our border and remove these criminals and thugs from our country so nothing like this happens again!”

In turn, Democratic-led cities such as Denver and Los Angeles have vowed not to use their police forces to assist federal immigration authorities, reinstating themselves as “sanctuary cities.” Trump has previously threatened to cut federal funding for such cities.

Johnston said he would mobilize the city’s police department and other resistance if Trump used other states’ National Guard to help with mass deportations of illegal immigrants. “And this seems to me to be a very, very bad idea from start to finish that no reasonable American would support,” he said.

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He says it will be like a “Tiananmen Square moment.”

“More than if DPD were stationed at the county line to keep them out, there would be 50,000 Denverites there,” Johnston said. “It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun, right? There would be all those Highland mums campaigning for migrants. And you don’t want to mess with them.”