President-elect Donald Trump incoming border czar said during an interview this week that he is absolutely willing to have far-Left Denver Mayor Mike Johnston thrown in jail after Johnston said that he would obstruct federal immigration officials from carrying out deportations in the city.
Johnston said in an interview with a local publication that he would deploy the Denver Police Department “at the county line to keep them out.”
He went even further, threatening to turn the situation into a “Tiananmen Square moment.”
Homan said during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that impeding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials from removing illegal aliens was “absolutely breaking the law.”
“But, look, 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,” Homan added.
Homan’s remarks come after Johnston was asked during a separate interview with local media if he was willing to go to jail to stop deportations from happening.
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“Yeah, I’m not afraid of that,” Johnston said. “And I’m also not seeking that.”
Homan noted that it is federal felony under Title 8 U.S.C. § 1324 to knowingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien from immigration authorities.
“President Trump has been clear, we want to concentrate on public safety threats and national security threats,” he added. “I find it hard to believe that any [government official] would say they don’t want public safety threats removed from their neighborhoods.”
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Border Czar Tom Homan on Denver Mayor Johnson’s threats to block deportations:
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who sits on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, told CBS News on Sunday that Johnston would be removed from office if he resisted federal immigration authorities.
“The mayor of Denver, if he’s going to resist federal law, which there’s a longstanding history of the supremacy of federal law, if he’s going to resist that, it will go all the way to the Supreme Court,” he said. “And I would suspect that he would be removed from office.”
“I don’t know whether or not there’d be a criminal prosecution for someone resisting federal law, but he will lose,” he continued. “And people need to realize that what he is offering is a form of insurrection, where the states resist the federal government.”
“The mayor of Denver is on the wrong side of history, and, really, I think, will face legal ramifications if he doesn’t obey the federal law,” he added.