Written by Jennie Taer & Chris Nesi of New York Post
Denver’s decision to welcome migrants with open arms is bringing bloodshed to the suburbs next door. A notorious Venezuelan prison gang has set up shop in Aurora, Colorado — even though the town wanted no part of the influx of asylum seekers in the first place.
Aurora — a quiet bedroom community with a population of 390,000 directly east of the Mile-High City — has become a base of operations for the brutal Tren de Aragua gang, which has seized multiple apartment complexes and set off a wave of violent crime.
Denver leads the nation in new migrant arrivals per capita, with more than 40,000 arriving from the southern border since December 2022.
The city has bent over backwards to provide aid, even slashing emergency services to help foot the cost — so far estimated at over $68 million and counting.
But Aurora has made it clear it doesn’t share Denver’s desire to be the country’s leading sanctuary city.
In February, the Aurora City Council passed a resolution 7-3 emphatically stating that it will not provide resources and support to migrants or others brought into the community from neighboring cities.
“It’s been pretty tense here, we’re feeling it,” city council member Danielle Jurinsky, a sponsor of the resolution, told Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.”
“We will not be aiding into this migrant crisis.”
Tren de Aragua shot caller Jhonardy Jose Pacheco-Chirino’s mugshot.
But Denver’s largesse has become Aurora’s problem anyway — forcing the community to grapple with increasing gang violence as Tren de Aragua has moved into town, taking whatever it can get its hands on, according to police, officials and law enforcement sources.
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