Why Donald Trump is going to Aurora, Colorado, to warn about the scourge of Tren de Aragua migrant gang violence
In just a matter of months, Tren de Aragua gangbangers carved out a foothold in Aurora, Colorado, and then started to take over — turning the Denver suburb into a case study for the unintended consequences of the Biden-Harris administration’s border policies.Former President Donald Trump is headed to Aurora on Friday to highlight the scourge of migrant gang violence in the US.He first pledged to visit two weeks ago during a campaign rally Uniondale, New York, where he said: “You may never see me again, but that’s OK.
Got to do what I got to do.”Colorado, of course, is not exactly a swing state.Polls have Vice President Kamala Harris leading Trump by 10 or more points.However, the border and immigration has been a major issue for Trump in each of his last three campaigns.The Post was the first to report on Tren de Aragua’s infiltration of the city of 390,000 — where several apartment complexes were taken over by the violent Venezuelan prison gang.Local cops later revealed that at least 10 confirmed members of Tren de Aragua have been arrested in Aurora, including one of the gang’s leaders who goes by “Galleta,” or “Cookie.”The city has since shut down at least one of the apartment complexes that was at the center of gang activity — the Fitzimons Place, where the “Cookie Monster” allegedly brutally beat down a resident and later engaged in a shootout that left two people wounded.Then, a video taken inside another complex — The Edge at Lowry apartments — surfaced in late August showing six heavily armed migrant men forcing their way into a unit, which included at least one TdA gang member.
The crew minutes later was involved in a fatal shooting.Days after the video came out, the then-interim chief of the Aurora Police Department, Heather Morris, denied a gang takeover of the complex.“I’m not saying there’s not gang members that don’t live in this community, but what we’re learning out here is that gang members have not take...