The deep red town at war with its liberal neighbor that can't wait for Trump to take office

A heavy reddish municipality that's a stone's propulsion from migrant haven Denver is anxiously awaiting Donald Trump's inauguration - and the sweeping deportations that he's promised.

The residents of sleepy Castle Rock and different adjacent parts of Colorado have had capable of the crime question rattling Denver, that galore blasted connected gun-toting Venezuelan gangsters taking power of full flat blocks.

Now, they're taking action, by pledging to enactment president-elect Trump's hard-line  migration crackdown. 

'Denver does not talk for each of Colorado, and Denver surely does not talk for Douglas County,' Max Brooks, a Castle Rock councilman and authorities representative, precocious told Fox News.

The municipality assembly past period unanimously passed Brooks' measurement expressing 'strong support' for Trump's program to 'solve this nation's ever-growing migration situation by undertaking wide deportations of unauthorized migrants.'

It added that Castle Rock would 'cooperate with national migration officials' — successful stark opposition to the alleged 'sanctuary cities' that garbage to manus implicit detained amerciable aliens.

With immoderate 73,000 residents, Castle Rock is the astir populous municipality successful Douglas County, a blimpish portion wherever immoderate residents accidental they're wounded by the pro-immigrant policies of authorities leaders.

Brooks says his measurement was a nonstop effect to Denver, wherever Mayor Mike Johnston successful November suggested metropolis constabulary could beryllium deployed to defy national migration officials successful a 'Tiananmen Square moment' against wide deportations

The Democrat aboriginal walked backmost that statement.

Denver welcomed immoderate 43,000 migrants betwixt December 2022 and past summer, metropolis information show.

It spent a whopping $356 cardinal of taxpayers' wealth connected migrants, according to a survey by the Common Sense Institute successful November.

The travel of arrivals slowed aft President Joe Biden took enforcement enactment to tighten the confederate borderline successful June 2024.

Denver shuttered its past migrant structure successful October, citing deficiency of demand.

Brooks says Johnston's medication was foolhardy to judge each the newcomers would 'remain wrong Denver's walls.'

'They are going to dispersed retired crossed the Front Range, which makes this a Colorado Problem,' helium said.

He highlighted Douglas County Jail, wherever 15 percent of its 369 inmates are listed arsenic non-US citizens.

A viral video of alleged equipped Venezuelan gangsters marauding an flat analyzable successful Aurora, a Denver suburb, past August enactment Colorado successful the crosshairs of a nationalist migration debate.

It showed men with rifles and handguns purportedly from the situation pack Tren de Aragua threatening flat residents earlier a 25-year-old antheral was changeable and killed.

Trump visited the metropolis connected the run way past fall, drafting a cheer by vowing to 'expedite the removals of these savage gangs.'

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, rejects claims that Colorado is simply a sanctuary state, and this period said national agents were invited to assistance circular up and deport transgression irregular migrants.

But helium added that they shouldn't spell 'after law-abiding Coloradans who might've lived present for 20, 30 years.'

Still, Brooks says Castle Rock and different towns are 'significantly hamstrung' by authorities laws dictating that constabulary cannot enactment with migration agents.

A 2019 Colorado instrumentality bars constabulary from arresting oregon detaining idiosyncratic solely based connected a petition from national migration officials, portion probation officers cannot stock accusation astir their clients to them.

It allows constabulary to assistance national migration agents successful executing a national warrant oregon transferring a captive to and from national custody.

'The words don't substance truthful overmuch arsenic action,' Brooks said.

'We privation cops to beryllium cops. We privation cops to beryllium capable to bash their jobs.'

Douglas County antecedently sued the authorities implicit its sanctuary policies, but a territory tribunal dismissed the suit past month.

Brooks said officials are weighing caller ineligible action, but are waiting to spot what happens erstwhile Trump is backmost successful the Oval Office.

'We cognize that we're going to unafraid the confederate border,' Brooks said.

'We cognize that Denver is not going to, arsenic overmuch arsenic they possibly mightiness like, proceed to bring successful amerciable migrants here.'

Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris handily defeated Trump successful Colorado, adjacent arsenic she mislaid an predetermination successful which migration was a apical issue.

Coloradans are divided implicit whether to assistance radical fleeing from poverty, unit and different problems successful Latin America and different parts of the processing world, oregon to enforce US laws and lone invited ineligible migrants.

One Castle Rock resident, who said helium legally emigrated from Brazil, said it was hard to justice however galore radical had entered the US illegally successful caller years.

'It's hard 'cause they're moving distant from poverty, violence, criminality oregon immoderate they're moving from,' said the resident, who did not privation to beryllium named.

'For them to instrumentality that measurement successful their beingness and beryllium specified a susceptible spot that they are, it indispensable beryllium truly atrocious retired there.'

But Catherine, who said she legally immigrated from Colombia to Colorado 2 years agone aft a nine-year process, said it's 'necessary to beryllium strict' astatine the border.

'If you don't power the rules, astir apt successful [the] future, your state volition beryllium the aforesaid [as our countries],' she said.