Hilton Beckham - Immigration Enforcement

WHAT IF TRUMP ASKS DENVER POLICE TO PARTICIPATE IN IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT?

“Absolutely not,” Johnston said. “We won’t do it.”  The vast majority of law enforcement is local. Johnston is doubtful that federal forces would raid Colorado to round up immigrants, even if Trump tried to mount a national crackdown.  “I do not believe that our governor is going to let them use our [Colorado] National Guard at the state level,” he said. “Unless they were planning on bringing national guards mobilized from Texas or Alabama to come invade Colorado, I don’t know where they would find the forces to begin to do that.  “And that seems to me like a very, very bad idea from start to finish that no reasonable American would support,” he said.  The mayor also takes heart that the people of Denver — not just the administration — would likely resist a mass deportation effort from federal forces.  “More than us having DPD stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there,” Johnston said. “It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun, right?” You’d have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. And you do not want to mess with them.” This while ICE Arrests 3 illegal immigrants in Mass.: 2 charged with child rape, 1 convicted of same crime in Brazil.  Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey recently said her state would not cooperate with President-elect Trump's mass deportation plans.  U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Boston announced on Wednesday the arrests of two illegal immigrants who have been charged with forcibly raping children in Massachusetts, as well as a third individual who was convicted of raping a child in Brazil, and was hiding in the U.S. after being caught and released at the U.S. border in 2022.  The arrests come after Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said her state would not cooperate with President-elect Trump’s federal immigration enforcement efforts once he returns to the Oval Office in January.  ICE said one of the suspects, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, was arrested for forcible rape of a child, but was released in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, by authorities, who ignored a detainer request made by the federal agency to hold or transfer him to federal custody. Hilton is the Director of Communications for AFPI