{"id":35166,"date":"2025-03-05T21:01:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T21:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/sanctuary-city-mayor-confronted-after-gang-member-allegedly-assaults-federal-officers\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T21:01:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T21:01:38","slug":"sanctuary-city-mayor-confronted-after-gang-member-allegedly-assaults-federal-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/sanctuary-city-mayor-confronted-after-gang-member-allegedly-assaults-federal-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sanctuary\u2019 city mayor confronted after gang member allegedly assaults federal officers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio confronted Denver Mayor Mike Johnston for upholding “sanctuary” city policies<\/a> that allowed an illegal immigrant and suspected Tren de Aragua gang member to walk free and allegedly assault federal officers.<\/p>\n

During a House Oversight Committee hearing on sanctuary cities Wednesday, Jordan slammed Johnston for ignoring an ICE detainer request and only giving federal agents one-hour notice before the Denver Sheriff’s Department released Abraham Gonzalez, a 23-year-old Venezuelan illegal immigrant charged with assault, menace and theft of a vehicle.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

After being released by the Denver Sheriff\u2019s Department Feb. 28, Gonzalez assaulted ICE agents<\/a> attempting to apprehend him, according to a statement by ICE.<\/p>\n

ICE has said that sanctuary city policies preventing law enforcement from honoring detainers and cooperating with federal authorities pose a significant risk to both agents and to the public.<\/p>\n

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Despite this, Johnston has doubled down<\/a> on the city\u2019s sanctuary policies and has vowed to direct law enforcement to resist Trump\u2019s crackdown on illegal immigration.<\/p>\n

During the hearing, Jordan showed a picture of the notice slip given by the Denver Sheriff\u2019s Department to ICE in which the location of release listed was simply the “streets.”<\/p>\n

Addressing Johnston, Jordan said, “Three hundred and forty-five days you had him in custody, and ICE said, \u2018Hey can you give us 48 hours heads up?’ You gave them one-hour notice.”<\/p>\n

Johnston asserted that the Denver sanctuary policy does not shield people from law enforcement but rather “provides services.” He said there were six ICE agents present when Gonzalez was released but admitted that the illegal immigrant was allowed to walk freely out into a parking lot.<\/p>\n

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“Guess what happened in that parking lot \u2026 one of the ICE officers got assaulted, didn\u2019t he? They had to tase the guy, didn\u2019t they?” Jordan asked.<\/p>\n

“An officer got assaulted because your policy, which says, \u2018We\u2019re going to release him to \u2014 in your words, not mine \u2014 to the streets.\u2019 They have to arrest him in the parking lot. They bring six officers when they could have just had one or two just come in your facility, into your jail, and take the guy there. But you won\u2019t do it that way.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Addressing Johnston\u2019s testimony earlier in the hearing, Jordan said, “You used the word safe, safer or safety 13 times. Talking about \u2018my job is the safety of the people in Denver, we\u2019re prioritizing making sure everyone is safer.\u2019 That\u2019s a lie.<\/p>\n

“It was not safer for the ICE agents who are part of your community. No way was it safer,” Jordan added. “The safest thing to do is to say, \u2018ICE we got him in custody. Come here. We\u2019ll release him.\u2019 [Instead, it’s], \u2018We held him 345 days. We can\u2019t hold him a second longer. We can\u2019t wait for you to come inside the building. We got to let him go so you have to arrest him in the parking lot.\u2019 That is how stupid sanctuary policies are and what they mean to the community that you put at risk and to the ICE officer who was assaulted.”<\/p>\n

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Johnston said he was open to making “adjustments” to how releases are conducted but insisted this was the first instance of an ICE agent being assaulted during an arrest in his city.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a simple question,” Jordan shot back. “You can release him in the parking lot, give ICE one hour notice and they got to send six officers to arrest this guy, or you can say, \u2018Here\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do. We\u2019re going to hold him. You come in and bring two officers in and turn him in.\u2019 Why not do it that way? You know why you don\u2019t do that way? Because you\u2019re a sanctuary city. This is the whole point.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio confronted Denver Mayor Mike Johnston for upholding “sanctuary” city policies that allowed an illegal immigrant and suspected Tren de Aragua gang member to walk free and allegedly assault federal officers. During a House Oversight Committee hearing on sanctuary cities Wednesday, Jordan slammed Johnston for ignoring an ICE detainer request … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}