Chuck Darwin<p>Trump border chief threatens jail for Denver mayor amid deportation dispute </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Homan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Homan</span></a>, Donald Trump’s hardline incoming <a href="https://c.im/tags/border" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>border</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/czar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>czar</span></a>, has threatened to put the mayor of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Denver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Denver</span></a> in jail <br>after the latter said he was willing to risk incarceration to resist the president-elect’s migrant mass deportation plan.</p><p>The threat was issued against <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mike</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Johnston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Johnston</span></a>, 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.</p><p>Johnston’s remarks came after Trump focused during the presidential election campaign on the Denver suburb of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Aurora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aurora</span></a>, which he said had become “a war zone” where apartment buildings had been taken over by Venezuelan gang members.</p><p>Asked to respond by Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Homan said: “Me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing; <br>he’s willing to go to jail. I’m willing to put him in jail.”</p><p>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.<br>He said he was not willing to go to jail, though he is “not afraid of that” in a Friday interview with 9 News.</p><p>“I think the goal is we want to be able to negotiate with reasonable people how to solve hard problems,” he told the outlet.<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/26/trump-tom-homan-border-denver?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n</span><span class="invisible">ov/26/trump-tom-homan-border-denver?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>