Mayor Mike Johnston’s pointed comments last week about Denverites resisting a federal mass-deportation effort — including a suggestion that he would mobilize the Denver police department to face off with federal and National Guard troops — have generated blowback in Colorado and across the country.

Tom Homan, who was named Donald Trump's 'border czar,' has already threatened Denver Mayor Mike Johnston with incarceration if he resists the incoming administration's mass deportation plan

"But look, me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing — he's willing to go to jail. I'm willing to put him in jail because there — there's a statute."