Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman is throwing down with Denver Mayor Mike Johnston now that the consequence of secretly dumping migrants on neighboring cities is getting real.
Real violent, that is.
Coffman called out Johnston the weekend before Christmas during a press conference on the home invasion of suspected Venezuelan gang members who kidnapped, tortured and robbed two illegal migrants at the now infamous apartment complexes there.
Coffman said Johnston unloaded some of Biden’s border busters onto Aurora without notice, leaving vulnerable migrants to fend for themselves and ultimately become victims of violent gang members.
Coffman called it “human dumping.”
“I’ve confronted the mayor about it. He won’t tell me how many people he sent over here. He won’t tell me what benefits he gave them, what promises he made. And so we’re going through open records requests to get that information right now, and it’s amazing that one mayor can’t get an answer from another mayor, that he has to use a legal mechanism to get the truth.”
Here’s the full press conference.
Coffman said he approached Denver Mayor Mike Johnston early in the border crisis when that city was first overwhelmed and offered to accompany Johnston to meet with President Biden to do something about the open border and Texas Gov. Abbott to stem the flow of border busters being directed to Sanctuary Cities.
But Johnston wasn’t interested in returning the border to an orderly immigration process.
He just wanted the federal government “to take control of dispersing the people from the border across the country, so it wouldn’t be impacting Denver so much. And so I didn’t take him up on it,” Coffman said.
Instead, Johnston decided to start dropping migrants into Aurora without informing the mayor or city services.
“He had the legal right to do it, but it was gutless politically not to let us know. Not only did it hurt us, it hurt the very people that were moved here,” Coffman said
Denver 7 News reached out to Johnston to get the party started, and he delivered this response to Coffman’s comments.
“We’re proud that Denver responded to the newcomer crisis with compassion. After more than tens of thousands of newcomers were bused to Denver by Texas Governor Greg Abbott without advanced notice, we were the only city in the metro area who stood up any type of long-term plan to manage the crisis efficiently and effectively. It was appropriate for Aurora to respond with swift action to address these heinous crimes and we agree that any person who commits a crime should be punished to the full extent of the law. But once again, Denver did not place or “dump” people in Aurora or any city for that matter. In fact, Denver has repeatedly coordinated with Aurora, and instead of placing blame we continue to stand ready to work with them to ensure we protect public safety and quickly address any criminal activity.”
Interestingly, Coffman also called out Johnston for equivocating when denying the human dumping because Denver wasn’t driving the delivery wagon — it was the advocacy groups that were being paid by Denver doing the actual dumping in the now troubled Aurora apartment complexes.
PeakNation will recall Aurora is in legal action with Denver to obtain documents that could show the trail of Denver’s dumping.
As for Johnston’s insistence that none of the migrants who arrived in Denver were dumped on other cities, we direct readers to this report from the establishment Associated Press:
Denver alone has spent at least $4.3 million in city funds to send migrants to other U.S. cities, freeing up shelter beds for new arrivals while adding to the numbers in other Democratic-led cities such as Chicago and New York that are struggling to house asylum-seekers, mostly from Venezuela.
Johnston might want to step down from his moral high ground on this issue until we know for sure whether the advocacy groups he funded arranged with the troubled management group to house illegal migrants from Venezuela at the now infamously troubled Aurora apartments.