Colorado cops finally crack down on migrant apartment gangs and ICE confirms they’re illegal aliens, admitted under Biden-Harris

American Thinker ^ | 09/06/2024 | Olivia Murray

[SeekAndFind]

There’s a new chapter in the saga of the Colorado apartment complexes that have been overrun, and de facto seized, by gang members who are suspected to be illegal aliens; they are in fact illegal aliens, part of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua cartel, and admitted to the United States by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, confirmed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after four of the criminals were recently arrested.

For some of the earlier developments, see an essay I wrote on the viral video of heavily armed gang members caught on a doorbell camera, and a follow-up item I penned about Colorado governor Jared Polis’s insistence that the narrative was all just a figment of wild, conspiracy theorist, Republican “imaginations.”

If these shady, gun-toting villains were all just in our heads, then who in the world was arrested?

Here’s the latest, from a report out at Fox News yesterday:

ICE confirms Aurora, Colorado gang members are in the United States illegally, released by Biden admin

Four Venezuelan national members of the Tren de Aragua gang arrested in Colorado have been confirmed as illegal aliens, per a statement from an ICE spokesperson to Fox News.

The Venezuelan nationals, ranging in ages from 19 through 24, all crossed the southern border through Texas illegally in 2022 and 2023, under the Biden administration. All four are now in ICE custody.

The four were arrested after a shooting which occurred near Nome Street Apartments, one of the apartment buildings in Aurora which had been overtaken by armed members of Tren de Aragua.

I thought we had gun laws on the books to make society safer? How in the world did criminals obtain firearms? Did they *gasp* ignore those laws and sow violence anyway?

[SeekAndFind]

As the article also notes, the four men in question were arrested after a shooting—were they quietly taken into custody, or did they get the same pre-dawn no-knock raid to which American citizens are all too often treated, like those who breathed near the Capitol building on January 6th, or prayed outside an abortion mill?

Something tells me it’s the former, as I never saw any law enforcement raids despite all the video evidence, an admission from the Aurora mayor that gang members had in fact seized properties and were menacing the complexes, and firsthand accounts from residents.

What took them so long? Was it the rumors that Hells Angels were on their way to sort things out?

They nabbed four? How many millions to go?

[Deo volente]

“So I would like to ask the Vice-president one question. Why did you allow these violent criminals from Venezuela to waltz into our country and terrorize innocent citizens in Colorado when you were Border Czar? Can you explain to the American people why you permitted this?”

Hope he asks this question on Tuesday.

[waterhill]

Had me at Walz...

[Brian Griffin]

Countries whose residents can get TPS status:

Afghanistan 41 million
Burma (Myanmar) 55 million
Cameroon 31 million
El Salvador 6 million
Ethiopia 110 million
Haiti 11 million
Honduras 9 million
Nepal 30 million
Nicaragua 6 million
Somalia 18 million
South Sudan 12 million
Sudan 50 million
Syria 24 million
Ukraine 35 million
Venezuela 28 million
Yemen 34 million

compiled based on Internet queries and:
https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status

That adds up to about 500 million people.

The U.S. government may grant advance travel authorization to up to 30,000 noncitizens each month to seek parole on a case-by-case basis under the processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans.

https://www.uscis.gov/CHNV

[Brian Griffin]

Harris was not a Border Czar. Harris was merely asked to ask Mexico and Central America to not send so many so quickly.

The only Border Czar Biden appointed left before 100 days.

The border was pretty much left unsupervised. Biden didn’t put anyone clearly in charge afterward.

[Enterprise]

Harris promptly refers any questions about waltzing to Walz.

[Brian Griffin]

“Why did you...”

Quotes from the Refugee Convention:

Article 31. - Refugees unlawfully in the country of refuge

1. The Contracting States shall not impose penalties, on account of their illegal entry or presence, on refugees who, coming directly from a territory where their life or freedom was threatened in the sense of article 1, enter or are present in their territory without authorization, provided they present themselves without delay to the authorities and show good cause for their illegal entry or presence.
2. The Contracting States shall not apply to the movements of such refugees restrictions other than those which are necessary and such restrictions shall only be applied until their status in the country is regularized or they obtain admission into another country. The Contracting States shall allow such refugees a reasonable period and all the necessary facilities to obtain admission into another country.

Article 32. - Expulsion

1. The Contracting States shall not expel a refugee lawfully in their territory save on grounds of national security or public order.
2. The expulsion of such a refugee shall be only in pursuance of a decision reached in accordance with due process of law. Except where compelling reasons of national security otherwise require, the refugee shall be allowed to submit evidence to clear himself, and to appeal to and be represented for the purpose before competent authority or a person or persons specially designated by the competent authority.
3. The Contracting States shall allow such a refugee a reasonable period within which to seek legal admission into another country. The Contracting States reserve the right to apply during that period such internal measures as they may deem necessary.

Article 23 - Public relief

The Contracting States shall accord to refugees lawfully staying in their territory the same treatment with respect to public relief and assistance as is accorded to their nationals.

Article 17 - Wage-earning employment
....
2. In any case, restrictive measures imposed on aliens or the employment of aliens for the protection of the national labour market shall not be applied to a refugee...who fulfils one of the following conditions:
(a) He has completed three years’ residence in the country;
....
(c) He has one or more children possessing the nationality of the country of residence.

Article 34 - Naturalization [and getting the right to vote (and buy AR-15s)]

The Contracting States shall as far as possible facilitate the assimilation and naturalization of refugees. They shall in particular make every effort to expedite naturalization proceedings and to reduce as far as possible the charges and costs of such proceedings.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-relating-status-refugees

Article 44 - Denunciation [getting out from under the Refugee Convention]
1. Any Contracting State may denounce this Convention at any time by a notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
2. Such denunciation shall take effect for the Contracting State concerned one year from the date upon which it is received by the Secretary-General of the United Nations....

Building a fence won’t stop the flood. They can climb over (or cut through) the fence if no border patrol agent is around, or they can yell to ask for asylum if an agent is around.

The Refugee Convention by permitting illegal entry (and entry upon any request) makes it impossible to secure the border. We need to get out from under the Refugee Convention.

The Refugee Convention must be removed from the Democratic Party toolbox by invoking Article 44.

[Brian Griffin]

“How in the world did criminals obtain firearms?”

In the Denver area (and several other areas), criminals under age 18 stole cars, rammed them into gun shops, and took all the guns not in safes.

There’s also the old fashioned ways of buying them off long established criminals or sending in a citizen lady friend to buy one or more.

[Brian Griffin]

“August 6, 2024”

“The owner told the Sentinel that he’s pushed Aurora Police since last September to help remove what he claims are members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua squatting in his buildings and threatening his tenants and employees.

“He said tenants described to him gang members breaking into vacant apartments, patrolling with assault rifles, and threatening them to pay rent to the gang members, not the owner.”

https://sentinelcolorado.com/metro/aurora-apartment-owner-says-cops-let-immigrant-gang-overrun-a-complex-but-officials-say-neglect-turned-it-into-a-slum/

[rlmorel]

Interesting, I read the source article, and saw this AI generated image on that American Thinker article:

I showed it to my wife and said "What does this remind you of?"

She laughed, and had the exact and instantaneous reaction I had: It was exactly like what we saw at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe.

We went there because we went to The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture and the folk art museum was included in the admission. Beautiful grounds, high up, simply beautiful.

Neither my wife and I are into folk art, but we went in, and it was fun and memorable, the inside is probably the size of a couple of high school gymnasiums, packed to the gills with this stuff. But there is so much of it, and we were told, the guy who bequeathed all the art had collected three times that amount they just didn't have the room to show.

I got the same numb feeling looking at all of it that I got when I went to Egypt in the Navy, and we went to a museum and so much Egyptian artifact material that I thought I would pass out if I saw one more single carved scarab beetle or carved hieroglyphic!

[OrioleFan]

Maybe Kamalaladingdong can splain what the root causes were of her and Joe’s border policies that allow criminals into this country. Is that too much to ask???

[Brian Griffin]

Quotes:

Aurora police confirmed that they’ve heard resident complaints about rent theft.

A law firm working for a lender for the complex says members of Tren de Aragua had “threatened to kill … members of Whispering Pines management,” and had demanded half of the building’s rent revenue, according to CBS.

https://denverite.com/2024/09/05/venezuelan-gang-aurora-colorado-quick-explainer/

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-law-firm-report-claims-venezuelan-gang-stranglehold-apartments-takeover-began-2023/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot

[Brian Griffin]

“Aragua was part of the Province of Caracas from 1555.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragua

The western part of Caracas is the lower income portion.

Estado Aragua I believe is to the west and south of Caracas.

[ponygirl]

I always limit Museum visits to one hour. I get totally overwhelmed with any more than that. I learned that lesson after visiting the DC Holocaust museum and spending four hours. I was in bed with exhaustion for two days afterwards.

[flamberge]

They nabbed four?

There are an estimated 200+ gang members or affiliates in Aurora right now. The PD has a long way to go before they break this gang.

My guess is that all of them are illegal immigrants.

Put them in a prison camp down by four corners and leave them there until they can be deported. That ought to keep them confined for the rest of their lives, since they will never be deported. Their home countries do not want them back.

The El Salvador solution is effective. It can work here too.

[sergeantdave]

“I wrote on the viral video of heavily armed gang members caught on a doorbell camera...”

Poor Olivia would have a heart attack if she viewed the heavily armed residents at our local range.

[dljordan]

“Put them in a prison camp down by four corners and leave them there until they can be deported. “

We’ve got some room at Rocky Flats.

[flamberge]

We’ve got some room at Rocky Flats.

Too close to the Denver metro area.

And we really do not want to disturb what is buried at Rocky Flats. At least not for the next 500,000 years or so. We only need to hold the gangsters for about 40 years.

Somewhere in the middle of a desert climate is about right.

[rlmorel]

I know what you mean...your eyes get glazed...:)

[CPT Clay]

ya don’t say