Denver Mayor Michael Hancock said that the liberal-run city can’t handle the influx of illegal immigrants.
QUICK FACTS:
- Michael Hancock, mayor of far-left Denver, Colorado, said he has had to declare a state of emergency due to the “hundreds of migrants” overwhelming the city.
- “I issued the declaration of emergency earlier today because we’ve seen a steady stream, really over the last six days, we’ve seen over 472 people come to our city as we start to track the migrants after I activated our emergency operations center, just beginning to really stress our systems and really stress our financial condition in the city of Denver,” Hancock said on “CNN Tonight” Thursday.
- The mayor claimed the city “had to open up two of our recreation centers — actually, three, take them offline to our taxpaying citizens to help those who are coming to our city as migrants and asylum-seekers.”
- In Nov. 2016, Hancock denied the capital of the state ever “adopted a formal policy to be a sanctuary city,” however claimed that Denver “is a very welcoming and inclusive city.”
DENVER MAYOR MICHAEL HANCOCK ON THE INFLUX OF MIGRANTS “STRESSING” THE CITY’S SYSTEM:
“The reality is that we have over 700 migrants that have — and asylum-seekers that have come to our city over the last several months,” Hancock said. “It’s stressing our system, it’s stressing our shelters in the city of Denver.”
BACKGROUND:
- Earlier this week, Fox News reporter Bill Melugin shared a video showing more than 1,000 illegal immigrants entering the United States from Mexico during the night.
- The caravan crossing into El Paso, Texas, was described by Melugin as “the largest single group” he had ever seen.
- “The city of El Paso reports Border Patrol now has over 5,000 in custody & has released hundreds to city streets,” Melugin said.
- Last week, Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended hundreds of migrants along the border wall near Lukeville, Arizona in three separate groups. When asked why he would not be visiting the border while visiting Arizona, President Joe Biden said there were “more important things going on.”
