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From Fox News: Denver Mayor Mike Johnston says that he is prepared to go to jail over his opposition to President-elect Trump’s mass deportation plan – even as he walked backed comments predicting a “Tiananmen Square moment.”
Johnston had been asked last week about his opposition to the Trump plan to significantly ramp up deportations of illegal immigrants when he enters office next year. Johnston predicted police deployment and a “Tiananmen Square moment” if federal immigration officials attempted to do their job.
“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.”
In a follow-up interview on Friday with 9News, Johnston walked back his ‘Tiananmen Square’ comments and claimed, “What I was trying to say is this is an outcome I hope we can avoid in this country. I think none of us want that.”
However, he defiantly declared he was even willing to go to jail in order to fight against Trump’s deportation plans, even for criminals.
The only exception Johnston made was for what he called ‘violent criminals.”
“We think if you are a violent criminal that is committing serious crimes like murder or rape in Denver, you should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and you should be deported. We support that, we have always supported that, we’ll continue supporting that. We’ve worked with previous administrations on that; we will do it going forward,” he said.
Denver Mayor Johnson: I am willing to go to jail to block deportations pic.twitter.com/8vMTe1gQQV
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 24, 2024
Conservatives immediately seized on Johnston’s declaration that he is willing to go to jail.
Donald Trump Jr. quipped, “Your terms are acceptable.”
Your terms are acceptable. https://t.co/5zuZwhxyPd
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 24, 2024
Elon Musk also reacted, simply writing, “100%.”
💯
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2024
More responses below:
I’m fine with this
— Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) November 24, 2024
His terms are more than acceptable.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 24, 2024
I’ll serve the warrant
— 👮♂️The Badged Patriot👮♂️ (@Badged_Patriot) November 24, 2024
Off to jail he goes!
— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) November 24, 2024
Every Democrat Mayor blocking Donald Trump mass deportations belongs in prison . We should ban Sanctuary Cities nationwide, their only purpose is to harbor illegal migrants who broke our laws so Democrats can farm them for votes. They’re trying to legalize crime, ban them.
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) November 24, 2024
Willing to go to jail to block deportations but not to fix the mess in his own city. Clown priorities.
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) November 24, 2024
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) also spoke out on Johnston’s vow to fight against federal law on deportations.
“The mayor of Denver, if he’s going to resist federal law, which there’s a longstanding history of the supremacy of federal law, he’s going to resist that it will go all the way to the Supreme Court. And I would suspect that he would be removed from office. And people need to realize that what he is- what he is offering, is a form of insurrection, where the states resist the federal government,” Paul said.
Sen. Rand Paul about Denver Mayor “what he is offering, is a form of insurrection”
Rand Paul: The mayor of Denver, if he’s going to resist federal law, which there’s a longstanding history of the supremacy of federal law, he’s going to resist that it will go all the way to the… pic.twitter.com/cGcJZuQhPg
— Steve Gruber (@stevegrubershow) November 24, 2024
Denver mayor says he’s prepared to go to jail over opposition to Trump deportations of illegal immigrants https://t.co/tfg4qYS1yb
— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 25, 2024
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