Trump, Vance pointed to apartment complex as example of Biden-Harris ‘open border’
Months after President-elect Donald Trump drew attention to an illegal immigrant gang that has taken over apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado, the city is working to immediately shutter one of those complexes as gang crime reaches its “breaking point.”
City officials in Aurora have filed a petition for injunctive relief and emergency closure of The Edge at Lowry Apartments as gang violence persists at the complex, 9News reported. While the city and the property owner, CBZ Management, already reached an agreement last month to shut the complex down, the filing may fast-track the closure.
Trump last year pointed to Aurora apartment complexes that he said had been taken over by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. Trump’s campaign described the city as a “war zone” plagued by “chaos and fear” because of the Biden-Harris administration’s lax border policies. Many mainstream media sources sharply pushed back against Trump’s assertions, with ABC News host Martha Raddatz telling Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance, that gang activity only affected a “handful” of complexes.
“Martha, do you hear yourself?” Vance shot back. “Only a ‘handful’ of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris’s open border?”
Under the Biden administration, around 8 million migrants have illegally crossed the southern border, with more than 13,000 illegal immigrants convicted of murder now at large in the United States, according to data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The filing comes just weeks after more than a dozen Venezuelan illegal immigrants—all suspected to be members or associates of Tren de Aragua—kidnapped and tortured a man and a woman at the complex. Last summer, members of the gang took over the complex and terrorized tenants, even forcing their way into an occupied apartment and fatally shooting a man nearby.
The Aurora complex has become “an epicenter for unmitigated violent crimes and property crimes perpetuated by a criminal element that has exerted control and fear over others residing at this apartment complex,” Aurora police chief Todd Chamberlain wrote in the petition, saying the situation has reached a “breaking point.”
“I’m receiving so many calls every single day from the families living in these buildings,” said V Reeves, an organizer with Housekeys Action Network Denver. “They are so desperate to be out. They are so desperate to be somewhere safe.”
The city and CBZ Management will be in court Monday afternoon.
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