Trump border chief threatens jail for Denver mayor amid deportation dispute
#Tom #Homan, Donald Trump’s hardline incoming #border #czar, has threatened to put the mayor of #Denver in jail
after the latter said he was willing to risk incarceration to resist the president-elect’s migrant mass deportation plan.
The threat was issued against #Mike #Johnston, a Democrat, who said he was not afraid of being jailed and encouraged people to protest against mass round-ups of immigrants in their cities and communities.
Johnston’s remarks came after Trump focused during the presidential election campaign on the Denver suburb of #Aurora, which he said had become “a war zone” where apartment buildings had been taken over by Venezuelan gang members.
Asked to respond by Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Homan said: “Me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing;
he’s willing to go to jail. I’m willing to put him in jail.”
Johnston had originally been asked by a local Denver television station to respond to Homan’s previous vows to arrest local leaders and politicians who stood in the way of deportation efforts.
He said he was not willing to go to jail, though he is “not afraid of that” in a Friday interview with 9 News.
“I think the goal is we want to be able to negotiate with reasonable people how to solve hard problems,” he told the outlet.
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