Turns out when you actually enforce immigration law, the streets get a little safer. The Denver Post covered ICE’s recent operation that snagged 46 criminal aliens across the Denver metro—including two who were supposedly in state custody. You read that right: somehow, inmates under the watchful eye of the Colorado Department of Corrections slipped through and ended up back on ICE’s Most Wanted Bingo Card.
The Bullet Point Brief
- ICE nabbed 46 criminal aliens around metro Denver. That’s not a sweep—that’s a damn rescue mission.
- At least two arrestees were allegedly already in DOC custody. Colorado corrections must be using invisible ink for their inmate rosters.
- Offenses ran the full garbage gamut: from drug trafficking to domestic violence. But please, do tell me more about how secure and compassionate our sanctuary policies are.
- CDOC offered no comment… because either they’re stunned or someone lost the speaking stick again.
My Bottom Line
Let me get this straight: we had violent criminals hanging out in our backyard—and ICE had to come in like babysitters on steroids to clean it up? This is what happens when your state values slogans over systems. Somebody needs to check under Governor Polis’ desk—he may have dropped something called leadership.
Look, I’m the guy who believes we ought to modernize immigration and seal the damn border yesterday—but holy hell, we’ve now entered Looney Tunes territory when inmates are disappearing from custody like bad plot twists in Netflix documentaries. Either the Colorado Department of Corrections has a teleportation device they’re not disclosing—or their record-keeping system involves crayons and hope.
Here’s where liberal “compassion” leads you: criminals walking free because it’s more fashionable to demonize ICE than to admit we need functional enforcement. At some point, someone in charge has to stop virtue-signaling long enough to actually do their damn job. Spoiler alert: criminals don’t care if your press conference was lit—they only care that nobody’s watching them walk right out the door.
