There’s a quiet revolution happening in Democrat-run city halls across America. It doesn’t involve protests or petitions. It involves something far more calculated – a systematic effort to dismantle federal immigration enforcement from the inside out. Elected officials who once simply refused to cooperate with ICE have graduated to something bolder: actively building local power structures designed to resist it.
The question used to be whether these cities would comply with federal law. Now the question is how far they’ll go to subvert it. The answer just arrived from a small city in Connecticut, and it should alarm every American who believes a police badge still means something.
From Fox News:
A Democrat-dominated city council in Danbury, Connecticut, is facing backlash over new police guidance that the Department of Homeland Security says is “encouraging criminal illegal aliens.”
The City Council voted 18-2 last week to approve non-citizen legal immigrants and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program recipients serving as police officers. One city council member, Democrat Joe Britton, remarked that the vote was “timely” considering recent ICE operations in the area and “sends a message to our immigrant community at large that you are welcome in Danbury.”
So while ICE agents were hauling convicted sex offenders out of Danbury neighborhoods, the city council decided this was the perfect moment to start handing badges to non-citizens. Not someday. Not as part of a measured policy review. Right now – as a political counterpunch against federal law enforcement.
Councilman Britton didn’t even bother hiding the motivation. He admitted the vote wasn’t originally planned for that evening but called it an “opportunity” born from what he characterized as a “federal invasion of immigration officials.” He then lectured colleagues that anyone voting against the measure should question their own “moral compass.” Interesting standard from a man who thinks arresting child molesters constitutes an invasion.
Only two Republicans on the council voted no. Every Democrat fell in line.
The criminals ICE actually removed
Here’s what was actually happening in Danbury while the council rehearsed its outrage. ICE agents conducted operations across Connecticut in August, netting more than 65 arrests. The people removed from these communities weren’t jaywalkers.
Eddy Ruano, a Guatemalan national convicted of molestation of a minor. Ericko Valenuela-Chua, also Guatemalan, carrying convictions for sexual assault and carnal abuse. Elvin Caceres-Martinez from Nicaragua – aggravated assault with a firearm, weapons charges. Frank Guaman, an Ecuadorian national found guilty of sexual assault and false imprisonment.
Those are the operations Britton called “frightening.” Frightening. Not the child predators living in his district – the people removing them.
DHS didn’t mince words, telling Fox News that the council “should be thanking our law enforcement for removing these dangerous criminals from Connecticut – NOT vilifying law enforcement.” The department also flagged a chilling statistic: anti-ICE rhetoric has fueled a 1,300% surge in assaults against federal immigration agents.
We’ve already seen where this leads
Think the concept of non-citizen officers is purely theoretical? It’s not. In July 2025, ICE arrested Jon Luke Evans – a Jamaican national who had been working as a reserve police officer in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Three months later, Radule Bojovic, a Montenegrin national serving on the Hanover Park, Illinois, police force, was swept up in a federal operation.
Connecticut paved the road for this back in 2020, when the state’s Police Officer Standards and Training Council partially waived citizenship requirements for law enforcement candidates. Danbury’s mayor, Roberto Alves – who arrived in the U.S. as an undocumented child before gaining citizenship in 2017 – has now formalized that erosion in his city. He stood alongside Governor Lamont and Senator Murphy at a rally denouncing the very ICE operations that pulled armed felons and predators off his streets.
The real message Danbury is sending
Britton insists this vote “sends a message” to the immigrant community. He’s absolutely right. Just not the one he intended.
It tells criminal aliens that Danbury views federal agents as the threat – not them. It tells ICE officers bleeding for public safety that this city would sooner badge a non-citizen than back them up. And it tells every taxpaying American resident of Danbury that their security ranks somewhere below the council’s ideological posturing.
A DHS spokesperson nailed it: “An oath of office is a commitment to upholding the law, not encouraging criminal illegal aliens to break it.”
When the people pinning on the badge owe no allegiance to the nation whose laws they’ve supposedly sworn to defend, that badge becomes a costume. Danbury didn’t just pass a policy last week. It picked a side. And it wasn’t yours.
Key Takeaways
- Danbury’s Democrat-led council voted 18-2 to allow non-citizens to serve as police officers.
- The vote was timed as a political response to ICE raids that arrested convicted sex offenders and violent felons.
- DHS warns that anti-ICE rhetoric has driven a 1,300% increase in assaults on federal agents.
- ICE previously arrested two illegal immigrants who had infiltrated police departments in 2025.
Sources: Fox News
