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.

Mike Johnston believes citizens will participate in "civil disobedience," and he is willing to go to jail to stop deportation efforts he believes are illegal.

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