Denver Mayor Mike Johnston orders the arrest of ICE agents with greater force

Denver Democratic Mayor Mike Johnston announced an executive order Thursday directing city officials to arrest ICE agents who are believed to have used excessive force against or “assault or shoot or kill” residents of the Mile High City.

The announcement comes just weeks after Philadelphia’s top prosecutor made headlines by likening ICE agents to Adolf Hitler’s Geheime Staatspolizei and warning of similar consequences yet to be applied, as Johnston has now done.

“To protect Denver, our first responders will always provide life-saving assistance to anyone who is injured, regardless of who is injured,” Johnston said on the steps of city government.

“No ICE officer is going to stand in our way to save someone’s life. To protect Denver, if we see any ICE officer using excessive force against a Denver resident, we will step in to arrest that officer and remove them from the situation,” he said, adding that federal agents should be held to the same standard as city police.

“No matter what the federal government does, we will not abdicate our responsibility to prosecute crime in our city.”

Johnston said the order was written by his city attorney, Michiko “Miko” Brown.

He said Brown is a descendant of Japanese Americans who were rounded up and sent to internment camps under an executive order signed by Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt during World War II.

Johnston pointed to the courtroom behind him, noting that it was named after former Colorado Republican Governor Ralph Carr.

In 1942, Carr took a different approach than most Western governors and opposed Roosevelt’s inclusion of Japanese, German, and Italian Americans throughout the region.

Johnston went on to say that he would not go along with the “capture[s]” of the residents, noting that “no one will worry if their father will be kidnapped when he goes to the store.”

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“[I]n Denver has proven time and time again that we are stronger than the obstacles we face because we are a city that supports each other and not alone. Through fires and floods, booms and busts, and tournaments and raids, we have remained true to the principles of the West: All are welcome. All are appreciated. They are all protected.”

Meanwhile, in Philadelphia, Krasner recently took to the podium in Penn Square to denounce ICE as “a small group of wannabe Nazis” and promised that “if we have to hunt you down the way they hunted Nazis for decades, we will find them.”

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Those comments led to a congressional warning, as House Intelligence Committee member Greg Steube, R-Fla., asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Krasner’s comments under a federal law that makes it a felony to make threats against government officials up to 10 years in prison.

Fox News Digital has reached out to DHS for comment.

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