Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has threatened a “Tiananmen Square moment” using tens of thousands of Mile High City residents to prevent President-elect Donald Trump from his plan to deport illegal immigrants.

“More than us having [federal agents] stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there,” Johnston said to The Denverite on Wednesday.

“It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment, right?” said Johnston, referring to the infamous image of a Chinese student and People’s Liberation Army tank coming face to face in Tiananmen Square in China during the 1989 uprising.

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