Denver Mayor Mike Johnston rebukes Congressional Republicans after committee request to testify on "sanctuary city" policies

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : He also spelled out his stance on cooperation with federal immigration enforcement last week.
54% : The letter to Johnston from Committee Chair James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, says Denver's and Colorado's laws prevent federal officials from enforcing immigration laws.
46% : These so-called "sanctuary city" laws refer to state or local laws and ordinances that limit or prevent local and state governments and agencies from cooperating with federal immigration officials in at least some cases.
46% : "Denver is a sanctuary jurisdiction that refuses to fully cooperate with federal immigration enforcement," the letter reads, in part.
44% : "They are not going to call the police if they think the police are going to report them to ICE."
37% : He said Denver, where more than 40,000 migrants have arrived since early 2023, would work with ICE to arrest violent criminals.
32% : And we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail or kick them out of our country," Trump said at the time at a rally at the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center near Denver International Airport.
32% : In November, Tom Homan -- selected by Trump to be the "border czar" and architect of the first Trump White House's "zero tolerance" policy toward immigration -- appeared on Fox News, saying he's "going to enforce the law period, and they're not going to stop us," referring to Johnston and other mayors who have said they will not enforce deportation orders.

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