By Sean Duffy | Commentary, The Gazette
Mayor Mike Johnston is confused.
Denver’s mayor wants to stand athwart the city’s boundaries to stop people from leaving. His problem is he’s focused on the wrong people.
Apparently seeking to bolster his progressive bona-fides, Mayor Mike recently staged a public hissy fit about the incoming Trump administration’s plan to deport illegal immigrants. In a bizarre rant he had to walk back, he said he would deploy the already understaffed Denver Police Department to stop federal immigration agents.
If his goal was to get national attention as a pro-illegal immigrant warrior, it worked.
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