In this morning’s Colorado Springs Gazette:

A group of local residents petitioned the Colorado Springs City Council on Tuesday to adopt policies that would make the city a safe harbor for undocumented immigrants.

Yes, THAT Colorado Springs. Don’t worry; the world hasn’t shifted on its axis; Donald Trump is still president; Colorado’s 5th Congressional District is one of the safest Republican seats out of all 435, and the Springs and surrounding El Paso County remain as red as a rare steak.

Turns out it was the local Green Party – not exactly a contender in Pikes Peak region politics – that made the pitch this week to the Colorado Springs City Council. As The Gazette’s Rachel Riley reports:

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders tightening immigration policies, the Green Party of the Pikes Peak Region has drafted a proposal to make Colorado Springs a “sanctuary city” – a term that has no set definition, but is often used to describe a city that is friendly to undocumented immigrants and refugees and does not use municipal funding to enforce federal immigration law.

Of course, as Riley notes:

Council members did not respond to the proposal or related comments made at Tuesday’s meeting.

Meaning, they were checking their email.

Alongside all of this, as The Gazette also points out, is the fact that every city is a “sanctuary city” to some degree, regardless of its political stripe – from Colorado Springs to Boulder and back. There are limits as a matter of standard procedure to what any local law enforcement agency is going to do to help the feds police immigration:

A week after Trump was elected, Lt. Howard Black, a spokesman for Colorado Springs Police Department, told The Gazette that the department does not seek out, detain, or investigate individuals on the sole basis of their immigration status. However, if police have information about someone who is suspected of a serious crime being in the country illegally, they will report the person to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

The department had “no plans” to change its protocols under the Trump administration, Black said in November.

At least when it comes to law enforcement, Colorado Springs seems to be as much, or as little, of a sanctuary city as any other.

Meanwhile, it likely will continue to be a sanctuary for Republicans for the foreseeable future.