ICE raids target 100 Tren de Aragua gangbangers in Aurora, Colorado — months after gov claimed they didn’t exist
By: Jennie Taer
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By Jennie Taer Published Feb. 5, 2025, 3:19 p.m. ET
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers hit multiple apartment complexes across Aurora, Colorado in raids targeting 100 Tren de Aragua gang members on Wednesday — just five months after the Democratic governor dismissed reporting by The Post that the violent migrant gang had taken hold in the Denver suburb.
ICE's Denver branch said officers made arrests alongside federal agents from numerous other agencies including the DEA, FBI, US Marshals and Customs and Border Patrol.
The agency did not not say how many gang members were ultimately nabbed in the raid.
Agents raided four locations in the Denver metro area in a series of pre-dawn raids Wednesday, a federal law enforcement source told The Post.
DEA could be seen deploying flash-bangs outside one Denver apartment complex before sunrise.
The Rocky Mountain DEA division wrote on X that the the raid was part of Homeland Security "operations taking place throughout the metro area this morning."
Feds were seen loading handcuffed suspects onto a bus parked outside at least one complex, according to Denver7.
Some agents were also reportedly seen at the Edge of Lowry and Cedar Run apartment complexes, the outlet reported.
The Edge, which is located in Aurora, had become overrun by Tren de Aragua gangbangers from Venezuela, who took over the building after it fell into disrepair.
One resident of The Edge told Denver7 that on Wednesday morning ICE agents "pounded on our door hard" and "yelled for us to open the door."
A judge recently ordered the shutdown of the infamous apartment complex for posing an "imminent threat" to the community following a spate of TdA terror.
The Edge was the site of a viral video showing gun-toting gangbangers forcing their way into units before taking part in a fatal shooting.
TdA gangbangers also conducted a violent kidnapping at the complex, where they tortured a couple and burglarized their apartment for hours in December.
The raids in the suburb of 400,000 people came after Democratic Gov. Jared Polis dismissed local officials who raised the alarm about Tren de Aragua last fall.
When The Post asked Polis on Aug. 29 about allegations made by council member Danielle Jurinsky that the gang was taking over apartment complex, his spokesperson responded: "According to police intelligence this purported invasion is largely a feature of Danielle Jurinsky's imagination."
Last month, the feds nabbed dozens of TdA gangbangers partying at a "makeshift nightclub" outside Denver.
The bust of what the DEA called an "invite-only party" netted cash, weapons, guns and drugs — including Tusi or "pink cocaine," a trademark narcotic trafficked by the Venezuelan gang.
The operations are part of President Trump's mass deportation efforts and follow his campaign promise of carrying out "Operation Aurora" to round up TdA gangbangers in the area.
Trump also recently announced that the Maduro regime has agreed to take back Venezuelan illegal migrants deported from the US, including TdA gangbangers, who have unleashed violent crime on at least 18 US states, including New York.
"We are in the process of removing record numbers of illegal aliens from all countries, and all countries have agreed to accept these illegal aliens back," the president wrote on Truth Social on Saturday.
"Venezuela has agreed to receive, back into their country, all Venezuela illegal aliens who were encamped in the U.S., including gang members of Tren de Aragua," Trump said.
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Once again, democrats caught lying about something that put the people they are supposed to represent at risk.
The people they represent have continued to vote for them.
Should I worry about the people of Colorado.
If democrats cared as much about violent illegal alien gangs taking over apartment complexes as they do fighting to make sure taxpayer dollars get spent on dei plays in ireland, they might not be at historic levels of unpopularity
It would be amazing the things they could accomplish if they put the citizens over pet projects and the mentally disturbed.
Instead, they are staging an insurrection.
They can't even figure out how to use a push door let alone any kind of take over.
Don't forget, a push door is thicker than AOC's skull.
It takes a bit of strength and knowhow.
UPDATE:
Border czar Tom Homan issued a warning after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid was leaked this week, greatly reducing the number of violent Venezuelan gang members authorities were able to arrest.
Homan said he will be addressing the leak stemming from Wednesday's operation in Aurora, Colorado, "immediately" during "The Faulkner Focus," making it clear anyone who stifles the agency's ability to get dangerous criminals off the streets will be held accountable.
Trump border czar Tom Homan to probe leak that stifled ICE raid in Colorado | Fox News
Let's get whoever it was and PROSECUTE them.
Hold them in the same cells with the illegals they are protecting.