Denver Mayor Mike Johnston said the city is willing to work with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement when it comes to violent criminals.

Johnston told FOX31 Denver, the city will also notify ICE of a pending release if the federal agency requests that notification.

“The whole state is bound by our state law in this, which is … we don’t honor ICE detainers,” Johnston said. “If ICE calls and says, ‘Will you hold someone for three more days?’ That doesn’t happen in Douglas County or Yuma or in Denver. We’re not having our local police doing federal law enforcement, that’s not our job, we’re not going to do ICE’s job for them. But if they call for information on folks we have in custody, we’ll let them know when we’re releasing them.”

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