A conference committee has asked the mayor of Denver Mike Johnston to testify in Washington next month, to defend the city’s policy that limits the local police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
In One letter To Johnston on Monday, the US House’s Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Denver identified the Denver Denver as one of the four cities that ‘stand out in their abject failure to comply with the federal law’, together with Chicago, New York City and Boston. The panel Sent similar letters To the mayors of those cities.
The committee is investigating cities such as the newly inaugurated President Donald Trump is planning to combat illegal immigration and carry out massive deportations. He has also threatened to withhold federal dollars From cities that do not work with American immigration and customs enforcement or ice.
“Denver is a jurisdiction of the sanctuary that refuses to fully cooperate in the enforcement of federal immigration,” according to the letter, signed by committee chairman James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky.
Denver has never assumed a policy that calls itself a ‘sanctuary’, but in 2016 the city council adopted a proclamation in which the city was declared ‘welcoming and including all people’. The following year, city officials have adopted a regulation that offers protection to immigrants, and it follows a policy not to honor non -requests from ICEs for prisoners in prison, except as required by law.
The Studies Act of Colorado also limits local cooperation with ice, where many sheriffs only inform ice cream of the release of targeted prisoners, but no longer hold on to them.
The letter from the committee also refers to comments that Johnston made in November, including he was willing to go to prison to stop deportations of illegal immigrants. And it asked for “documents and information regarding the sanctuary policy of Denver.”
“The most useful thing Congress Republicans could do now is to repair our broken immigration system,” Johnston said on Monday evening through a spokesperson. “Although they are working on this, we will focus on running the cities that manage the consequences of their failure to act.”
The mayor will consider the request in the coming days to testify in the coming days, Jordan Fuja said his spokesperson.
The letter says that the Commission is partially ‘legal jurisdictions in the United States and their impact on public safety’.
“In addition to the efforts of the Trump government to ensure that the enforcement of federal immigration can be unobstructed,” says the letter, “the congress must determine whether further legislation is needed to improve border security and public safety. The is necessary that the federal immigration legislation is maintained and that criminal aliens are quickly removed from our communities.
The committee invited Johnston to testify during a hearing set before 11 February. The requested for city documents and communication for certain criteria that went back until 1 January 2024, with regard to the ‘sanctuary status’ of the city, with those files by the Commission by the Commission by the Commission by the Commission by the Commission by the Commission Commission by the Commission Day prior to the hearing.
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