This week, Townhall covered how a violent Venezuelan prison gang known as Tren de Aragua has spilled into Aurora, Colorado and has full-blown taken over apartment complexes.
Horrifying footage shows the illegal aliens patrolling an apartment complex with a rifle. Video captured on a doorbell camera shows the men attempting to get into an apartment.
🚨#BREAKING: An armed gang of illegal immigrants from Venezuela has reportedly taken full control of an apartment complex and parts of the town of Aurora⁰
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) August 28, 2024
📌#Aurora | #Colorado
New footage by @vicentearenastv reveals an armed gang at a complex in Aurora, Colorado. Aurora… pic.twitter.com/3xGWP5Yhof
As Townhall reported, Aurora is not a sanctuary city. Denver, however, is a longtime sanctuary city. Aurora was one of the neighboring cities that wanted no part in Denver’s “sanctuary” approach to President Joe Biden’s border crisis.
In response, Democrat Gov. Jared Polis called the anger and fear that’s arisen from this footage “imagination.”
Polis’ press office offered the “snarky” statement on Wednesday in response to the New York Post’s reporting on the issue.
“The Governor has already let the Mayor know that the State is ready to support the local police department with assistance from state troopers and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation if needed,” Shelby Wieman, a spokesperson for the Democratic governor, told The Post.
“But, according to police intelligence this purported invasion is largely a feature of Danielle Jurinsky’s imagination.”
Wieman added that “it’s illegal to take over buildings in Colorado” and if Jurinsky has “knowledge” of such activity, the governor’s office is “ready to assist” cops “in taking them back.”
“Violent crime dropped in Aurora between 2022 and 2023,” said Wieman.
Sources who spoke to the Post confirmed that the gang members, who entered the U.S. illegally, began terrorizing apartment staff who were forced to flee the properties.
“They were first hanging out around the property and creating a bad element that’s constantly there. And then they started taking over, quite a few months ago, they started taking over vacant units,” one source explained.
Last month, Townhall covered how two Denver councilmembers acknowledged that the influx of illegal immigration into the city over the past 18 months has contributed to the uptick in crime in certain areas.
