Denver suburbs look to sue city over influx of 42K migrants — and Tren de Aragua gang
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By Jared DowningPublished Sep. 15, 2024, 1:02 p.m. ET
Fed-up Denver suburbs are looking to sue their big sanctuary city neighbor and the state government after suffering strained budgets and crime after 42,000 migrants flocked to Colorado — bringing the violent gang Tren de Aragua with them.
Most recently, the council for the city of Castle Rock - just south of Denver - unanimously voted to research legal options against its largest neighbor, CBS News Colorado reported.
The vote came amid a wave of other suburbs that have voted to sue, or to look into suing over the migrant crisis in Colorado.
The goal: reverse policies and laws that made Denver a haven for the tens of thousands of illegal migrant — most of them from Venezuela.
Law enforcement officials in the suburb of Aurora and others areas outside of Denver are also warning that Tren de Aragua, the brutal Venezuelan prison gang, followed the migrants into Colorado.
The gang members have since spread out across the state — taking over apartment complexes, dealing drugs and robbing jewelry stores.
"This isn't just a decision that Denver gets to make because," Castle Rock Town Councilmember Max Brooks told CBS Colorado. "The idea is to join with other municipalities and say it's time to stop."
Another Denver suburb, Parker, is also exploring legal action, CBS reported, as well as the city of Aurora — which has gained national attention for its problems with the gang.
Meanwhile, Douglas County, where Castle Rock is located, has joined a group of six Colorado counties suing the state and Democratic Gov. Jared Polis over laws they claim limit their ability to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Last month, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office reported the arrest of 11 alleged car thieves, including three Venezuelan nationals and one Columbian national.
"It is happening; we are having issues here in Douglas County. You know, we are having migrants come in here; there have been instances of crime," Brooks told CBS.
The lawsuit against the state challenges two laws: one that stops law enforcement from detaining a person based on their immigration status, and another that prevents counties from allowing ICE to use their jails.
No Maga or fascist nonsense.
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Crimes?? But I thought they were all "asylum seekers".
Our latest leftist mayor calls them "newcomers" and was openly welcoming them until the money started to run out. Now he's trying to shove them off onto neighboring suburbs. I live here and can testify that the situation continues to get worse.[✘]
Isn't that what all the idiots are doing?
That's crazy. These real world examples of Illegal immigrants costing more money than they generate in revenue must be hoaxes, as they completely contradict the claims of left wing immigration activists whose expert opinions are not to be questioned. All these democratic officials detailing how much illegal immigration costs cities must be secret MAGA.
They'll still claim something idiotic as justification not to do anything.
Because the Post sucks, I had to look it up. The migrants have come in over the course of a year, and apparently, a great number of them came in on buses from Texas . So if these suburbs should be suing anyone, it’s probably the governor of Texas, who had people he knew were here illegally, and instead of calling ICE, shipped them to Denver. So it wasn’t knowledge of Colorado law that drew migrants to Denver. It was Governor Abbot.
ICE can't and won't do anything on orders from the Biden administration.
Texas didn't ask for or want them, so shipping them to welcoming sanctuary cities was the logical thing to do.
Did Colorado ask for them? Like did they call up Texas and say, “please send those people here?” Or did Abbot just do it without talking to anyone?
Or, they could be shipped back to where they came from. There are probably a few things that could have at least been tried - like calling ICE to see if what you say is true.
The point is that if people really want to blame those responsible, Abbot is part of that group. Suing him would be difficult under the 11th Amendment, but I can’t help but wonder if party politics is the real reason they aren’t at least complaining to/about Abbot.
They are run be unamerican pieces of shit?
I asked questions first. Guess no one is interested in answering them. Just playing games.
That's what happens when you declare your city or state a Sanctuary Shithole. Places like Texas help you out and give you the illegals you said you would welcome. The problem is the "leaders" of these cities and states didn't expect to have to put in the work or pay for everything they "stood for". And its coming back to bite them in the ass in the form of crime and insufficient funds for projects.
Isn't that always the case.