The town of Aurora, Colorado, has been prominently featured in American news since late-August, especially after former President Donald Trump's references to it during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Back then, he said Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang had taken over residency complexes in the town. But ever since some new details have come out— and it seems like a lack of resources and improper management played a role in igniting the claim.
"They're taking over buildings," Trump said during the debate. "They're going in violently."
Claims of the violent Venezuelan street gang, as well as Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, have taken the country by storm. As the Trump campaign adopts the rhetoric and escalates attacks on immigrants as part of his efforts to capitalize on concerns over the southern border crisis, so has right-wing media.
But is the narrative entirely truthful? Not necessarily, according to The New York Times.
Aurora officials had been trying to force an out-of-state landlord to fix up three blighted apartment complexes in the East Colfax Corridor, which connects the cities of Denver and Aurora, as far back as May 2023.
In July 2024, the landlord, CBZ Management, which claims to be based in Colorado and Brooklyn, offered a new argument for why...
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