Denver is a sanctuary city. Last month Mayor Mike Johnson announced he was cutting $45M from city agency budgets to pay for the influx of over 40,000 illegal aliens into the city.
Of the budget cuts, $8.4M is being taken from the Denver Police Department.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been targeting Denver by sending illegal aliens to the sanctuary city. Why not? Sanctuary cities said they would welcome anyone, regardless of legal status. Abbott is giving them what they asked for with the added bonus of spotlighting the burden on Texas and other border states created by Biden’s border crisis.
In addition to the budget crisis, Denver city leaders approve a policy on May 1 that bars officers from pulling over drivers for low-level traffic infractions. Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas called those stops “time-consuming and not effective for crime reduction.”
So, less funding for…
