Major publication takes aim at left-wing governor for manipulating state over gang terror * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

A major New York publication has criticized Colorado’s left-wing governor for “manipulating” the public about a threat to lives and safety posed by the takeover of apartment buildings by a gang of Venezuelan criminals who entered the United States under his Democratic Party’s open southern border policy.

Governor Jared Polis claimed that such problems, officially documented by officials in the neighboring city of Aurora, in police files and on video, were merely someone’s “imagination.”

The New York Post pointed out in a holiday message from its editorial board that Polis is also an extremist at the border who “has contributed to the state being overrun by migrants.”

“In 2019, he signed an asylum law that bans parole officers from ‘providing an individual’s personal information to federal immigration authorities,’ and in June he signed measures making it easier for immigrants to get driver’s licenses and government assistance,” the publication said.

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So “the gang’s power grab in Aurora doesn’t suit Polis,” and it has resulted in his “don’t believe your lying eyes” approach, the report said.

Polis later took to social media and appeared to backtrack on his initial assumptions, claiming that “taking over buildings has no place in Colorado.”

The Post charged: “Migrant gangs are turning apartment complexes in Aurora, Colo., into hellholes, and the Democratic governor is looking the other way. It’s an unfortunate consequence of being a suburb of the refuge city of Denver: Venezuelan migrants have spread out from the Mile High City, with gang members reportedly claiming apartment buildings as their turf and terrorizing residents.”

The editorial cited video evidence showing “suspected Tren de Aragua members sneaking through the compound with weapons. Another, from the same compound, shows two men breaking into a unit with a tire iron.”

Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman has confirmed that at least two apartment buildings have fallen into the hands of an “organized criminal enterprise” stemming from “failed policies at the southern border.”

Aurora Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky has been advocating for a solution for some time and provides evidence to support it.

However, Polis has widened the divide between the cities by bluntly denying that this is happening.

A statement from his office said the invasion was “an example of Danielle Jurinsky’s imagination” and, the Post reported, he “snarled that Polis ‘really hopes the city council members in charge will stop destroying their own city while they’re supposed to be keeping it safe.’”

“This is gaslighting of the worst kind,” the Post said.

Official reports now confirm that several of those gang members have been arrested on suspicion of criminal activity, and the Post noted: “Was it Jurinsky’s ‘imagination’ when local leader Jhonardy Jose Pacheco-Chirino and some of his thugs allegedly beat up a man in one of these complexes? Or when he was involved in a shootout that injured two men in the same complex?”

She accused the Biden-Harris monopoly of causing “suffering” to residents and criticized officials in neighboring Denver for encouraging criminal activity by creating free housing and other taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal immigrants.

According to reports, members of Tren de Aragua, a notorious Venezuelan gang, have taken over buildings and Jurinsky has personally helped some residents relocate.

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Bob Onruh

Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades at the Associated Press and various newspapers in the Upper Midwest, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and murderous survivalists. He is also a photographer whose landscape work has been used commercially. Read more articles by Bob Unruh here.