A video filmed in the Aurora neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, has gone viral on right-wing media and social media as a result of the immigration policies of the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris government, which is subordinate to the far left.
Security camera footage from a building shows several armed men, including those carrying long and high-caliber weapons, entering the building to rob it.
The criminals have been identified as members of the Venezuelan gang El Tren de Aragua, whose new modality is to attack residential buildings, take possession of them and loot them.
Despite videos, police reports and the city’s mayor confirming what is happening, Colorado Governor Jared Polis dismissed residents’ anger as imagination.
This is the legacy that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are leaving for the United States and its citizens: insecurity, increased crime, the rise of gangs and social destabilization.
For more than three years, states, counties and cities governed by Democrats have accepted the entry of tens of thousands of criminals who enter through the country’s southern border, a situation that Republicans have vehemently denounced since Biden and Harris arrived at the White House, even calling on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to resign on several occasions.
Polis’ press office offered the sarcastic statement in response to Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky, who told the New York Post that the gang’s assaults are linked to his policies.
The Aragua Train in the US, thanks to the Biden-Harris administration
On Wednesday night, Fox Denver aired surveillance video, which showed an armed gang of men, later confirmed by police to be members of the Tren de Aragua, strolling through an apartment complex in Aurora that residents say is overrun by the gang.
Three of the men could be seen carrying handguns, while others held a rifle as they entered the troubled apartment complex, breaking into a unit shortly before a shooting broke out at the complex that left one person critically injured.
Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman told Fox News on Thursday that “there are several buildings” that have “fallen into the hands of these Venezuelan gangs” in his city.
Coffman said he believes the buildings were used as taxpayer-funded immigrant housing, which is what gave the gangs a foothold.
Denver, a sanctuary city west of Aurora, has received more migrants per capita than any other city in the country, most of them from Venezuela. More than 40,000 migrants have arrived since December 2022.
The Post exposed the gang’s takeover of apartments in Aurora and identified the “boss” of the area, Jhonardy José Pacheco-Chirino, known as “Galleta.”
Pacheco-Chirino, along with his gang members, brutally beat a man at an apartment complex in Aurora.
He was later arrested and then released on bail.
Sanctuary cities, the nightmare of American families
During the robbery, a witness said Pacheco-Chirino and his accomplices were “part of a gang that robs Walmart” and claimed “they ran” the apartment, according to an affidavit obtained by The Post.
The apartment investor told The Post that they “lost control” of several properties because the gang took over the units.
“First they would hang around the property and create a bad element that is there constantly. And then they started taking possession. For months now, they started taking possession of empty units.”
In July, Pacheco-Chirino was arrested for a shooting at the same complex, where two men were injured.
Meanwhile, Polis has adopted sanctuary policies for Colorado.
In recent months, the governor signed legislation to support their new lives in the state by making it easier for them to obtain driver’s licenses, attend school and access taxpayer-funded resources.
When the influx of migrants became overwhelming, Polis made the decision to begin busing them to New York City in 2023, through a program that has since ended.
Still, many stayed and some moved to nearby Aurora, population 390,000, where apartments are now under siege by the gang.
For years, the gang, which hails from Venezuela’s Aragua region, has sent its criminal and murderous members across the U.S.-Mexico border over the past nearly four years. It has also expanded recruitment within the United States among migrant communities, primarily in New York, Denver and Chicago.
