Two candidates trying to thwart Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's
gubernatorial bid say he is so soft on illegal immigration that
he is unfit for office.  Both Tom Tancredo, running a third-
party bid to become governor, and GOP candidate Dan Maes have
argued that Denver is a "sanctuary city," offering safe harbor
to illegal immigrants.  Hickenlooper rebuts the allegations. He
points out that Denver referred more than 7,000 arrested
individuals to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for
further investigation from May 2006 through 2009.  The city did
not track such statistics before 2006, the year the state began
requiring such data.  "I don't care how many times people say
it's a 'sanctuary city'; it doesn't make it true," Hickenlooper
said in a debate last week, adding that the city complies "with
every state and federal law that's relevant to this issue."
City rules put in place before Hickenlooper was first elected in
2003 limit police from proactively investigating illegal
immigration.  "The responsib