Officials in Aurora, Colorado, are grappling with a surge in crime linked to Tren de Aragua, a violent Venezuelan prison gang. This follows an influx of migrants into nearby Denver, whose sanctuary policies are having a spillover effect on neighboring suburbs like Aurora.
“We currently have entire [apartment] complexes under gang control—complexes where staff have been beaten up, they’ve been threatened, their families have been threatened [and] complexes where there are no staff left on the property,” warns Aurora City Council Member Danielle Jurinsky.
“These complexes are being run by this Tren de Aragua gang,” she says, describing how the migrant gangsters “start brokering apartments themselves when someone leaves out of fear or whatever,” with Venezuelan families moving in to replace them “within hours.”
“Parts of the city are absolutely under this gang’s control,” she said.
The rise in migrant gang crime is overwhelming Aurora’s police department. Tren de Aragua, in particular, has links to high-profile crimes across America, including the murder of nursing student Laken Riley in Georgia and the shooting of two New York Police Department (NYPD) officers.
Tren de Aragua has established itself in the U.S. under the Biden-Harris government’s lax border regime, which has resulted in record-breaking illegal immigration. Kamala Harris, in particular, was tasked with tackling the “root causes” of illegal immigration by Joe Biden in 2021 as part of a “border czar” role she now denies.
Despite previously vowing to block funding for Donald Trump’s border wall and comparing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the Ku Klux Klan as a Senator, Harris now claims she will finish the wall.
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