Remind me, who has been the "border czar" for the last three-and-a-half years? Oh, that's right. Kamala Harris.
We've been reporting on the mess at some apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado, which have been taken over by a Venezuelan gang, "Tren de Aragua." The gang members seized control of these apartments, largely inhabited by other Venezuelan immigrants, and have extorted rent from the tenants at gunpoint.
On Thursday we learned that the Aurora city government has known about this problem for at least a year, maybe longer. One Aurora City councilperson, Danielle Jurinsky, now says she's had enough. What's more, she has started dumping some documentation on it through her own X account.
An Aurora City Council member says she has documents verifying that local police knew about the "Tren De Aragua" gang's takeover of local apartment buildings more than a year ago.
Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky published photos of the documents to her personal X profile on Wednesday and Thursday. The documents contain emails from within the Aurora Police Department discussing extensive gang activities in the area.
"I am done. I am tired of the city lying. I am done with the governor who called the cops on me. I am done with the local media. This is an issue of human suffering. Gang members are extorting and torturing other migrants who came here for a better life and to get away from gangs like this." Jurinsky told Fox News Digital in an interview.
"This is one of the biggest cover-ups I’ve ever seen and Aurora police officers on the front lines are sick of it as well. They are putting their lives on the line and they are fed up," she added.
Emails that went out to the entire @AuroraPD confirming that officers were advised to respond in numbers and with an armored vehicle to Whispering Pines. A report was made that "these guys" have over 200 people working for them. Still not a gang takeover over the complex? It's… pic.twitter.com/VyOHiKsVZh
— Danielle Jurinsky (@DaniJurinsky) October 23, 2024
Take a look at the documents Danielle Jurinsky has released. One advises police officers to not "...respond to these locations without an armored vehicle." Another advises officers to "...take 2-3 friends with you when responding to any calls there."
Some of the documents presented go back to October of 2023.
— Ward Clark (@TheGreatLander) October 24, 2024
In other words, the situation is bad enough that cops are being advised to respond to calls in certain areas in force - with a tank. This, in a suburb of Denver, one of the nation's major cities.
Previously on RedState: UPDATE: The Mayor of Aurora, CO Speaks on Apartment Building Takeovers by Armed Gangs
All this is baffling to me personally for one primary reason: I lived in Aurora for 30 years. I know Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman. He was our state representative when I was a precinct captain in south Aurora. He was our congressman for 10 years. I doubt he'd remember me, at this distance in time, but I've spoken with him. Like me, he's a Desert Storm veteran. I've always thought of him as a pretty staunch law and order guy.
But it sure looks like the Aurora PD under his watch has stepped on a certain appendage in dealing with this.
More to the point, though, is that a large portion of this can - must - be laid at the feet of the Harris/Biden administration and their utter failure to close, or even minimally control, our southern border. We have important hundreds of thousands of young, military-age men, largely unknown, and unscreened, and now our cities are paying the price.
Remember this when you go to vote.
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