Entire apartment buildings in Colorado are being forced to be completely shut down due to a “hostile takeover” by Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua migrant street gang. “Tren de Aragua taking over properties and communities in Aurora means that we are not able to be present on this property, or any of our other properties in similar situations, also being impacted by [migrant] gang presence,” said a statement to Breitbart News by an “investor for multiple affected properties in Aurora.” The statement was provided by a spokesman for the Florida-based landlord, CBZ Management.

In an attempt to cover up for his liberal immigration policies that are changing the dynamics of his city, Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman responded via 9News.com, claiming “that building has been a problem for years, mountains of garbage, rats, sewage, no electricity …. We’ve been working with this building and its owners for a very long time. I mean, I they’re they’re out-of-state slumlords, and they haven’t maintained the building.”

Aurora police Deputy Chief Chris Juul acknowledged that the Venezuelan Tren De Aragua gang is active in the area.  “We’re working diligently on that … We are learning a lot about this community,” according to an August 9 report by Colorado Public Radio.

“This happening in Denver and other big cities, and it’s happening in rural areas,” responded Jay Palmer, a trafficking expert and former advisor to President Donald Trump.

Apartment buildings, he told Breitbart News, are:

being taken over by the migrant gangs, and the illegal workers have to pay upwards. I equate this almost to the 1920s, 1930s Mafia trend [of protection rackets]: You give them a part of your salary, and you’re alright. The police won’t do anything. Nobody will do anything.

This comes straight from a high-ranking law enforcement official who told me: When they put you through the academies, you are not taught … immigration law. You know burglary, robberies, homicide. You don’t know these [immigration] laws and it takes a scholar to keep up with the laws because a lot of them change. Every [migrant] has got a cell phone, everybody’s got a camera, and law enforcement officers are afraid they’ll be prosecuted by the left.

The Florida landlord has been urging more police action for months, according to the PR agency. “I told them time and time again, if you guys only took this seriously eight months ago, nine months ago, you probably could have stomped it out with relative ease,” the landlord told Colorado Public Radio.

The PR company for the landlord told Breitbart News:

The property owners have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into repairing and upgrading the building in the past several years, and on November 2, 2023, we received a full code compliance sign-off on our improvements, with the next inspection scheduled for July 2024. Over the course of due process, and given our inability to have a presence at the building due to the danger, we received no prior notice of the July 2024 inspection ever taking place.  It is irresponsible to categorize this act of organized terror as the result of code violations when it is understood by several local and federal agencies that this gang has overtaken several apartment complexes in the area.

We would like to be able to resume normal operations at our buildings, but we cannot do so under the threat of present and immediate danger against residents, staff, and management. This is an issue our city needs to face head-on with law enforcement and the further support of our state and country’s leaders to protect affected tenants, the surrounding communities, and Americans across the nation.”