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How do we know they're Venezuelan?
How do we know they're a gang? Or specifically the Tren de Aragua gang?
How do we know they're taking over the building and not just fairly peacefully entering a single apartment with the occupant's permission?
Again, this was armed men entering an apartment. They knocked on the door and entered. The video clip doesn't prove anything else. - ptheland---------------
Agree, the info in the Post article is insufficient for the conclusion drawn.
Now, as to the underlying migrant crime problem....
Too bad you don't watch Fox news where you be exposed to more fake video of the of the criminals taking a hammer to what was a very substantial door and lock, the video went on for 30 sec or so as chunks of door were being ripped out, but the door held firm. In your style of critical thinking must we assume they were the apartments tenants who forgot their key?
Fox showed another video taken inside a mock-up of a tenants apartment where the woman was showing the six or seven locks she had from top to bottom of her door. She explained it was really difficult to unlock and then re-lock all these locks whenever she went for mail or take out the trash. She said she was forced to add all these locks, the only way she could feel safe, when so many apartments were having their doors kicked in. She added it all began when the Venezuelans moved in.
Fox showed a video of an older couple, aged 65 or so, walking down the sidewalk, away from the building, each carrying boxes. The local news reporter asked them why they were moving. They responded it is just too dangerous to stay there, besides the current incident, they said two days ago there was a shootout and their car had bullet holes in it. They said this was a nice place to live until the Venezuelans moved in and that was soon after a migrant shelter was opened up in Denver (a sanctuary city) only a few miles away.
Below is a link to a Fox article that makes up a more comprehensive fairy tale maligning the benevolent Venezuelans. Irony warning, Fox video headline
CO Task Force Targeting Venezuelan Gang Activity. The state is going after the same Gang Activity that the mayor of Denver claims is imaginary.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/sanctuary-citys-...Although Denver's suburbs don't share its sanctuary city policies, the influx of migrants into the Mile High City has spilled outward. Now, its neighbors are facing an unprecedented wave of activity from a notorious Venezuelan prison gang.
Officials from Aurora, about nine miles east of Denver, told Fox News Digital the Tren de Aragua gang has gained a strong foothold in their city, commandeering apartment complexes and drumming up violent crime and sex trafficking.
"We currently have entire complexes under gang control — complexes where staff have been beaten up, they've been threatened, their families have been threatened [and] complexes where there are no staff left on the property," Aurora City Council Member Danielle Jurinsky said. "These complexes are being run by this Tren de Aragua gang.
"They start brokering apartments themselves when someone leaves out of fear or whatever. They go in and take pictures of the apartment themselves. Then, I've been told, within hours, a Venezuelan family moves in.
