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Thursday, September 12, 2024

Aurora, Colorado, is normally a quiet, nondescript suburb 30 minutes outside Denver. In recent months, however, the city has been at the center of a national scandal. Beginning last year, a large influx of Venezuelan migrants, some of them members of the notorious Tren de Aragua street gang, reportedly had "taken over" a series of apartment buildings in Aurora"and unleashed terror. Last month, Venezuelan migrants were allegedly implicated in an attempted homicide, an arrest of purported gang members, and shocking security footage that showed heavily armed men forcibly entering one of the apartments. In response to the chaos, police mobilized en masse and vacated one of the complexes after the city, alleging code violations, deemed it uninhabitable


Tuesday, September 10, 2024

KAMALA HARRIS'S MOMENTUM HAS STALLED, and she heads into the final eight weeks of the campaign with a challenging map in the Electoral College. Voters in a new national New York Times/Siena poll see Donald Trump as the candidate representing change and say they don't know enough about what Harris stands for or plans to do as president. It's high time for her to stop by local television morning shows, call into radio programs, chat with reporters in the back of the plane, and appear on podcasts of all kinds. Harris needs to start having conversations with the press. Loads of them. In a race this tight, one debate, even a home run, isn't likely to win Harris the election. She can talk to Hillary Clinton about her successful debates that preceded losing to Trump in 2016. One debate should not be the last time voters see Harris in an unscripted back and forth on critical issues, and a bad debate can be mitigated by a relentless media offensive.


This summer saw a slew of court cases over the issue of ballot access. Now the litigation is threatening to undermine voters' confidence in this fall's election. The ability to reflect on and elect our own leaders is the core of our democracy. Democrats should have been thrilled to see third-party candidates like Jill Stein and Cornel West stepping up to provide voters with an alternative choice to the two-party monopoly. They were not. The Democratic Party has filed multiple lawsuits in key swing states to restrict third parties' ballot access. This lawfare will undermine voter confidence in the 2024 election by limiting voters' ability to exercise choice.


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" But, according to Cindy Romero, who used to live at the Edge apartments, that's exactly what's happened.

"They want to say there's no takeover. I don't know what your definition of takeover' is, but there were no managers, no owners, the housekeepers were being harassed, and these guys changed the locks to the outside of buildings."

"I saw them breaking down doors and taking pictures, then showing the apartments to different families like they were real-estate agents."

"They had their own electricians, locksmiths, and plumbers, and they cooked in my building for like 50 people like six days a week. They partied all night until breakfast then went to bed. They carried guns and terrorized every lease holder until they moved. I was the last [lease holder] in my building."

"That's a takeover."

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" Crimes and citations have more than doubled at two of the CBZ apartment complexes " Whispering Pines and Aspen Grove " since 2022, while nearly doubling at the third complex, Edge at Lowry, according to the Common Sense Institute, a non-partisan think tank.

The owner of the apartments hired a Colorado law firm to investigate the alleged gang takeover of the Whispering Pines Apartments, CBS News reported. The report concluded Tren de Aragua members committed a long list of crimes including: trespassing, unlawful firearm possession, assaults, threats of murder, extortion, strong-arm tactics, and child prostitution.

TdA now uses the formally vacant units to host "parties" where they "serve drugs and child prostitution," according to the report. The property manager told the law-firm investigators that "minors are a good source of money."

The report further revealed a consultant for the property manager was so severely beaten and stomped by gang members that he had to go to the hospital. And a housekeeper was threatened to give up her keys. The suspects said if she didn't comply, they would kill her or her family.

The officer concluded his report with, "I would highly recommend you guys take two to three friends with you when responding to any calls there."

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