Denver Mayor Threatens to Deploy Cops, 50K Residents in ‘Tiananmen Square Moment’ to Stop Trump’s Mass Deportations
Jennie Taer, New York Post, November 22, 2024
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.
“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.
Roughly 40,000 migrants have flocked to the Mile High City since December 2022 — the largest number of new arrivals per capita across the nation.
With that influx came a surge in migrant crime tied to the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua.
The criminals have been terrorizing Denver and its nearby suburb of Aurora, where the gang has taken over apartment complexes and engaged in vicious incidents.
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Elon Musk, who Trump recently tapped to head the new Department of Government Efficiency, took to his platform X to say that Johnston’s threat shows “the mayor of Denver hates his constituents.”
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