Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is the latest Democrat to declare his intention to resist former President Donald Trump's proposed mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, suggesting that the city's local government and residents would not comply with federal immigration enforcement aimed at dismantling the city's sanctuary protections.
In an interview with local news outlet Denverite, Johnston suggested that the city's residents would be the first ones to resist the policy and offered an analogy to a historic episode of resistance:
