Tag: Illegal Immigrant Deportation
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Denver mayor hints of strategy as he prepares for March’s ‘sanctuary’ city hearing
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, whose administration just hired a law firm to help him prepare for an upcoming congressional inquiry into “sanctuary” cities, hinted he will insist that Denver’s approach to illegal immigration “works” when he testifies in the nation’s capital next month. “We think the data is quite clear that (our) approach works,” he…
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Denver mayor says city preparing for federal cuts over immigration row
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston said he’s preparing the city for “all eventualities,” including losing federal funds, over his objections to President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to conduct the largest-ever mass deportation in American history. Johnston made national headlines last year when he told a local news outfit that the city’s police and “50,000 Denverites” would not…
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Some call Johnston’s pushback on deportation ‘sensationalism’
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston made national headlines when he told a local news outfit that the city’s police and “50,000 Denverites” would not comply with President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to deport thousands of immigrants residing illegally in the Mile High City — even suggesting he’d go to jail if necessary. Since then, the mayor has…