What does “resistance” look like?
When Denver isn’t busing illegal aliens to New York and Chicago, its mayor is trying to act like enforcing American immigration law and deporting illegal aliens is Tiananmen Square all over again.
The mayor also takes heart that the people of Denver — not just the administration — would likely resist a mass deportation effort from federal forces.
“More than us having DPD stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there,” Johnston said. “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.”
Mayor Mike Johnston appears to be playing with the idea of deploying the Denver cops to block any kind of deportation force.
That sounds a whole lot like insurrection to me.
Of course, Johnson doesn’t actually commit to it. He wants leftists to launch some sort of mass blockade.
And meanwhile, Denver keeps busing those illegal aliens whom Johnson claims to love so much to Chicago.
If you love people, would you really bus them to Chicago in November?
But Johnson, like a lot of sanctuary state and city leaders, keeps flirting with defying the law.
If a person breaks the law in a small way — like having a busted taillight, police won’t ask them for immigration status. The city won’t turn undocumented people who commit low-level crimes into Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
But people who commit felonies could still face immigration enforcement, Johnston said.
If Trump does block people’s right to work, Johnston plans to explore the possibilities for creating both city and state work authorizations beyond the federal program. Whether that’s possible is legally uncertain.
The vast majority of law enforcement is local. Johnston is doubtful that federal forces would raid Colorado to round up immigrants, even if Trump tried to mount a national crackdown.
“I do not believe that our governor is going to let them use our [Colorado] National Guard at the state level,” he said. “Unless they were planning on bringing national guards mobilized from Texas or Alabama to come invade Colorado, I don’t know where they would find the forces to begin to do that.”
Has Johnson heard of the Civil War?