Aurora, Colorado, should, by rights, be a pretty quiet place. I should know — I lived there for thirty years. It’s in a decent setting, east of the city of Denver, and stretches from the Cherry Creek valley in the south to the high, dry plains in the northeast — a part of Aurora that locals used to jokingly refer to as “Saudi Aurora.”
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Aurora isn’t a quiet place these days. Colorado has suffered badly from wave after wave of illegal immigration, with a leavening of vicious Venezuelan gang members from the notorious Tren de Aragua group. Early Tuesday morning, local authorities responded to a call of a home invasion that resulted in 14 of these goblins finding themselves behind bars.
Just before 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday, police were called to The Edge at Lowry Apartments in the 1200 block of Dallas Street for a reported armed home invasion in which victims were kidnapped and assaulted, the Aurora Police said.
Aurora Police Department Chief Todd Chamberlain said during a Tuesday news conference that 13 to 15 people, mostly males with some females, entered an apartment where two people were inside. Police say the suspects took the migrant victims to another apartment at the same location, where the victims were “threatened and bound.”
One of the victims, a man, sustained a stab wound but is expected to survive, police said. Both victims are still at the hospital for treatment of their injuries.
So, who were the invaders?
“This is without question a gang incident. I don’t know which gang they are affiliated with yet,” he added. Chamberlain said that “there is a high assumption that they may be affiliated with the TdA [Tren de Aragua] gang,” but he stopped short of declaring which gang in particular was involved because he could not be certain at this time.
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The Edge at Lowry Apartments, it should be noted, is in the vicinity of the apartment buildings that had been seized by Tren de Aragua members some weeks back.
Fox News also did a live report on the incident:
🚨 Police have arrested 14 PEOPLE in the apartment complex where reports of armed Venezuelan gang members taking over the building were WIDELY dismissed by the left.
There were victims who were found having been threatened, bound, stabbed. pic.twitter.com/ieOOnrxZmQ
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 17, 2024
These are the wages of unchecked, illegal immigration.
Previously on RedState: Aurora, CO Property Management Firm Sets Record Straight: Venezuelan Gangs Took Over, Gov’t Did Nothing
As of this writing, it is unclear what these “presumed” gang members will be charged with, but we should bear in mind that this is a small part of a much larger problem. We have a new Border Czar, Tom “The Hammer” Homan, who has been handed the task of finding, detaining, and deporting illegal aliens, known bad actors first. But thanks to years of the Biden administration’s wide-open borders policy, that job has become rather like Heracles taking on the Lernaean Hydra: Cut off a head, and two more take its place, or in this case, arrest and deport one illegal alien criminal and there are (at least) two more out there.
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This may well be the job of not months, not years, but decades. But we have to start somewhere. So far, it sounds like Tom Homan is the right guy to kick things off.
