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   Colorado’s capital city has been serving not only as innkeeper for an   
   unprecedented, new wave of illegal immigrants — but also as their travel   
   agent. Among the many services the administration of Denver Mayor Mike   
   Johnston extends to them — all on the taxpayers’ tab — are tickets to the   
   immigrants’ next intended destination.   
      
   The complimentary travel fare no doubt is aimed, at least in part, at   
   defusing public pushback at the other support — room, board, medical care   
   at Denver Health and so forth — the administration has been doling out.   
   It’s as if to say, nervously, “Don’t worry; they won’t be staying!” though   
   many probably will.   
      
   But instead of serving as a sop to an overburdened public, the free   
   tickets are really another slap in the face. It’s another perk taxpayers   
   have to cover for “newcomers,” as they are now called, but aren’t eligible   
   to use themselves.   
      
   Policies adopted by Denver City Hall as well as by Colorado’s government   
   have turned our entire state into a sanctuary, and a beacon, for those who   
   are illegally in the U.S. And the public’s ire is inevitable. To date, the   
   city has received 42,323 immigrants at a cost of more than $71 million,   
   some of which has dinged taxpayers through cutbacks in city services.   
      
   The portion of that ad hoc budget that is paying for one-way travel to   
   other points on the map not only represents another publicly funded   
   expense — but also the policy’s rank hypocrisy.   
      
   The city might as well declare, “Give us your tired, your poor, your   
   huddled masses — but only until we can palm them off on someone else.”   
   They are being shipped to places that didn’t ask for them and — unlike   
   Denver and Colorado — weren’t foolish enough to advertise themselves as   
   sanctuaries for illegal immigration in the first place.   
      
   Elected leaders in such destinations are now justifiably upset, as a   
   report in The Gazette reminded us this week. And it is reflecting poorly   
   not only on Denver and its elected leadership but also on all of Colorado.   
      
   Utah’s Republican Gov. Spencer Cox tore into Johnston on social media the   
   other day, saying it is “completely unacceptable” to bus immigrants — who   
   crossed the U.S. border illegally and ended up in Denver — to Colorado’s   
   neighbors.   
      
   “We recently learned that the Democrat mayor of Denver has been sending   
   illegal immigrants to Utah without proper notification or approval,” Cox   
   wrote Friday on X, the former Twitter. “This is completely unacceptable   
   and follows on the failed catch-and-release policy of the Biden   
   administration.”   
      
   Denver officials insist the policy has been ongoing and is hardly a   
   secret, but the Utahans aren’t in the mood for excuses.   
      
   “Denver did not consult with us prior to instigating this practice,” Cox’s   
   office stated in an email to The Gazette’s news staff. Salt Lake City and   
   the state of Utah are unable to provide services to arriving immigrants,   
   Cox’s office added.   
      
   One thing both states’ political leaders seem to agree on is the problem   
   is the fault of our federal government — for failing to secure the   
   nation’s borders — and ultimately will have to be resolved in the nation’s   
   capital.   
      
   But Denver’s mayor as well as the state Legislature have significantly   
   compounded Colorado’s woes. State lawmakers in 2019 enacted a law   
   prohibiting local governments from cooperating with the federal government   
   in immigration enforcement and prohibiting the sharing of judicial   
   information with federal officials.   
      
   Last year, the Legislature passed a law barring local government   
   involvement in immigration detention. Denver, meanwhile, is widely known   
   for offering shelter, food and transportation of immigrants here illegally   
   to their final destination.   
      
   Is it any surprise when Utah balks at Colorado’s attempts to share pain of   
   its own making?   
      
   https://gazette.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-more-blowback-for-   
   colorado-s-sanctuary-status/article_9f126d3a-2ea0-11ef-9ea6-   
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