[Balding_Eagle]

"Denver's sanctuary policy prevents local law enforcement from cooperating with federal officials on immigration matters, despite federal law which explicitly prohibits such a policy," Tancredo charged in a news release.

Denver Mayor, and employer of this illegal alien, John Hickenlooper, said he knows of no such Denver Law.

I don't think there is such a law in Denver, but rather it is accepted practice by Denver police.

Hickenlooper is one of the good guys, but the pro-invader crowd is going to beat him like a rented mule over this. I sure hope I'm wrong.

[mondoman]

Perhaps you are technically correct, this may be a policy rather than a law, but local station KHOW posted the February 2005 Denver Police Department directive (based on former Mayor Wellington Webb's sanctuary initiative ) which I posted here. Nevertheless, 1) Mayor Hickenlooper did not acknowledge this Sanctuary policy; 2) Mayor Hickenlooper is owner of the restaurant where this illegal alien worked; 3) the suspect was stopped by the Denver Police on 3 prior occasions, but not sent to the INS because of the Webb Sanctuary policy/'law'.

In Michelle Malkin's book, INVASION, Regnery Publishing, Inc. (September 25, 2002), Malkin make a detailed case for the need to put teeth in our immigration laws. I do hope that as the news develops in this matter, that Rush, Malkin, O'Reilly and Tancredo really pick-up and stress the real-world impact that our lax policies and sanctuary 'laws' are having on our culture.

If it were not for the Sanctuary movement in cities such as Denver, Boulder, San Francisco, more American Citizens would be safer from these undocumented workers.