Castle Rock approved a resolution this week supporting President-elect Trump’s deportation plans for Biden’s open border migrants who are here illegally.
The resolution passed unanimously on the same day that a Denver district judge rejected Douglas County’s lawsuit challenging Colorado’s sanctuary state laws.
The town council’s resolution said illegal migrants have “overwhelmed many communities by consuming already limited affordable housing, crowding classrooms, and increasing the strain on food banks, transit, and social services.”
The financial burden across affected Denver agencies is estimated at more than $350 million, the resolution said.
The state laws being challenged by Douglas County were passed on Gov. Polis’s watch by a Democrat-controlled legislature. The laws restrict local governments from working with federal immigration officers to detain illegal migrants.
Which is interesting, because PeakNation™ will recall that Aurora police detained 15 Venezuelan gang members suspected of a brutal home invasion this week, while making it clear no arrests had been made.
Next thing we know, the suspects are in the hands of immigration officials.
Fox 31 reports this statement from Aurora police:
“APD investigators contacted Homeland Security Investigations and ICE – ERO to assist with our criminal investigation of the violent incident that occurred Monday night into early Tuesday morning. The primary role of our federal partners was to assist with the identification of the suspects involved in the crime and their associates,” an APD spokesperson said.
The explanation came on the heels of complaints by left-wing advocates griping that local police used federal help to identify the suspects.
The advocate told Fox 31:
“We believe that this is a testing ground right now in Aurora. For them to try out to see how far they can go when it comes to detaining migrants without proper cause, and forcing them into deportation status in a lot quicker fashion,” Housekeys Action Network Denver Organizer V Reeves said.
Quick reminder, the suspects weren’t rounded up on suspicion of jaywalking.
They are being detained as part of an investigation into a home invasion in which the occupants were tortured and beaten and held captive for hours while their home was burglarized.
The report concluded:
A spokesperson for ICE told FOX31 the 16 people under arrest will go through removal hearings. The question now is whether they will be charged in the kidnapping torture case and be transferred to state custody.
And while that decision is being made, the dangerous suspects are off the streets and cannot harm anyone else, which might not have been possible without federal assistance.