Blue state sanctuary laws enabled illegal 'abolish ICE' activist to evade capture, says local DA

He said the policies have stunted local and state law enforcement's ability to keep dangerous illegal criminals off the streets.

"Local law enforcement all say the 'right' thing publicly, and that is, 'Hey, we're not arms of the federal government. We don't work for ICE. That's not why we were hired.' But they also say behind the scenes, 'Dang, we have lost the ability to rid this community of the criminal element when we create these kinds of barriers with ICE.'"

He noted that he is sympathetic to Vizguerra having to leave after establishing a life and family in Colorado, but said, "We are either going to be a nation and a state that is governed by laws that we hold each other accountable for, or we're going to be guided by emotion and whatever the politics of the day are."

"That doesn't seem to me to be the America that was ever intended and not the one I grew up in," he went on. "We have to admit that the first step for any person who claims to want to be an American cannot be to violate America's laws. And she fits that bill."

He said the decision of "one single district court judge in a handpicked venue by the people that think they're going to get the outcome that they want, to issue a nationwide ban that freezes the federal government from border to border, coast to coast, seems to me to be abuse of judicial discretion."

"What judges should do at the federal level is, if they think that something should be enjoined, they should limit that enjoinder to their own jurisdiction and let the rest of this play out across the country," he said.

"That's where Colorado's going," he said. "They're not making us safer. They're not making us better. They're not making us more just. And they're making a mockery of the rule of law."