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.

"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."

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