“I think we are gonna continue to be a welcoming, open, big-hearted city that’s gonna stand by our values,” said Denver Mayor Mike Johnston — whose city has been plagued by violen…
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Denver’s mayor has vowed to shield migrants in his sanctuary city from mass deportation by using local cops and 50,000 residents “stationed at the county line” — calling it a “Tiananmen Square moment.”
“More than us having [federal agents] stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there,” Democratic Mayor Mike Johnston recently told the outlet Denverite — after President-elect Donald Trump vowed to undertake mass deportations of illegal migrants across the US.
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Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has vowed to face off against President-elect Donald Trump over the planned mass deportation of illegal migrants. Denver Post via Getty Images
“It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment … right?” said Johnston, referring to the famous caught-on-video showdown between a Chinese student and government tank in Tiananmen Square in China during the 1989 rebellion there.
“You’d have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. And you do not want to mess with them,” the mayor said of Denver residents apparently prepared to go to the mat against the federal government.
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40,000 migrants have flocked to the Mile High City since December 2022 — the largest number of new arrivals per capita across the nation.
