Rand Paul blasts Denver mayor for announcing plans to deploy police to fight federal deportations

"I would say that the mayor of Denver, if he’s going to resist federal law — which, there’s a long-standing history of the supremacy of federal law — he’s going to resist that, it will go all the way to the Supreme Court,” Paul said Sunday on CBS News’ Face the Nation. “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.”

"And people need to realize that what he is, what he is offering, is a form of insurrection, where the states resist the federal government. Most people objected to that, rejected that long ago. So I think 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,” Rand continued,

Denver’s mayor mused last week about using local police and up to 50,000 citizen volunteers to blanket illegals from deportations that President-elect Donald Trump and his nominated border czar, Tom Homan, have promised to deliver after Inauguration Day. Homans has told those states or cities reluctant to help that he will “flood” US sanctuary cities with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to get the job done.

"More than us having [Denver Police Department] stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there,” Johnston said last week. “It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment … 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,” Johnston said of locals who are apparently willing to defy the federal government.

Johnston has since dialed back those comments. “Would I have taken it back if I could? Yes, I probably wouldn't have used that image,” Johnston said on Friday.

The comments from the Denver mayor come after the Colorado suburb of Aurora was plagued by criminal gangs like Tren de Aragua, who have even taken over apartment complexes and terrorized the residents.