Posted on 10/28/2024 7:13:24 AM PDT by george76
The Venezuelan prison gang known as Tren de Aragua (TdA) eyed Denver as its headquarters in the U.S., according to internal communications within the Aurora Police Department.
The internal communications were citing federal intelligence reports.
“Intelligence from ICE is that TdA has decided to make Denver their headquarters in the U.S. and will be violent toward anyone who encroaches on their territory,” one police bulletin from October 2023 said.
The reason?
Denver’s status as a sanctuary city.
In response to questions from The Denver Gazette, the Denver Police Department said it was aware of a tip regarding the “possibility” of TdA members operating in the metro Denver area and the gang establishing its headquarters in the metropolis.
DPD said it has “uncovered no evidence that Denver is headquarters to TdA.”
The Denver police believe there are individuals who “may be” affiliated with Tren de Aragua in the city.
“DPD has and continues to work with local, state and federal partners to ensure that if criminal activity arises in Denver, it is swiftly handled and arrests are made,” the Denver police said, adding that the law enforcement department “does not ask witnesses or victims of crime about immigration status, removing a potential barrier to reporting” and that interpretation services are available for people who report crimes.
The Denver police said it did not assist Aurora in dealing with suspected TdA members.
It is uncertain how many TdA gang members are now living in the United States.
But last year — according to an internal Oct. 5, 2023 Aurora police bulletin — the “FBI reported that there are 400 members of TdA in various cities in New York and are suspected to be involved in drug trafficking, homicide, kidnaping, and prostitution.”
According to officials at the U.S. border with Mexico in El Paso Texas, the majority of immigrants intended to travel to Denver, Chicago and New York City as their final destination.
Generally speaking, “sanctuary city” refers to policies that discourage local law enforcement from reporting an individual’s immigration status to federal authorities.
Since December 2022, roughly 43,000 immigrants have arrived in Colorado’s most populous city after illegally crossing the southern border. The bulk of the immigrants are from South and Central America. The majority are from Venezuela.
Initially, local officials believed the draw was because of the Mile High City’s proximity to El Paso, Texas, which is roughly 600 miles south of Denver.
Texas officials, however, pointed to Denver’s promise of free shelter and onward travel to newly arriving immigrants.
“There’s a pull factor created by this, and the policies in Denver for paying for onward destinations,” Irene Gutiérrez, executive director of El Paso County Community Services in west Texas, has said.
Over the past two years, Denver has experienced an influx of immigrants, mostly from South and Central America. Since 90 immigrants were left to wander in the cold downtown in December 2022, Denver has welcomed nearly 43,000 at a taxpayer cost of more than $75 million.
U.S. Census data — as well as plane, train and bus tickets to send immigrants to their final destination — suggest about half have stayed.
The internal emails — confirmed by city officials — showed that Aurora officials knew, or strongly suspected, for much longer than previously disclosed that the Venezuelan gang operating in their city was much larger than a handful of members at a single apartment complex.
The cache represents more than two dozen internal Aurora Police Department emails dating back to Sept. 11, 2023.
This is nearly a year before it was publicly known that the Venezuelan prison gang known as Tren de Aragua (TdA) was operating in the Denver metro area and before city officials shuttered an apartment complex.
The emails paint a dire picture showing internal conflicts and worries about the political fallout — and a frightened police force.
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I am so glad I didn’t move to Colorado when I had the chance to back in the early 2010’s.
Me too, I had a chance back in 2001 and didn’t.
BTTT
I heard they really love Colorado’s “four seasons” and “Rocky Mountain High”.
And it’s all thanks to incompetent rat party voters.
Better if you avoid democrat areas
The Helen Keller brigade saw something?
‘Do You Hear Yourself?’: Vance Hammers ABC’s Martha Raddatz’s criticism of President Donald Trump’s attacks on Biden-Harris immigration policy and Venezuelan gangs . ..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4270747/posts
That’s the killer. I’m sure many places in Colorado are great places, but the politics kill it. They’re all at the mercy of Denver leftist politics.
But wouldn’t that be a real insurrection 🤔 or is that an invasion 🤔……. And what about those who let these people in? Treason? 🤔
Denver mayor, Governor Polis and his husband, Dominion machines connected to the internet, mail in voting, and .. are part of the problem.
guvernor fudgepacker sez there’s no such thing as Tren de Aragua ...
CRAM THIS INFO DOWN POLIS’ THROAT.
Then he got 9news and other outlets to lie.
He is running for the next democrat presidential nomination
Sounds like Denver PD is scared s-less of the gang.
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