AURORA | Local leaders and experts say President Donald Trump’s false claims about Aurora made during his national speech on Tuesday could have real economic repercussions.
“Entire towns like Aurora, Colorado and Springfield, Ohio, buckled under the weight of the migrant occupation and corruption like nobody’s ever seen before,” President Trump said during his address to Congress on Tuesday. “Beautiful towns destroyed.”
During his speech to members of Congress, Trump made false claims he’s repeated before about Aurora being overrun and destroyed by recent migrants, and especially migrants linked to gangs.
Local elected officials have also repeatedly denied his allegations and narrative, including statements by Trump and his supporters insisting that members of criminal gangs, such as the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua, have not taken over the city or parts of it.
“Aurora is not now, nor has it ever been, destroyed or buckled under the strain of TdA gang members,” Councilmember Curtis Gardner told the Sentinel this week.
The president’s comment was a frequently made anti-immigrant blanket, implying that the entire immigrant population was problematic for the city when there were only a few documented incidents of violent crime being committed by suspected Venezuelan gang members, according to Aurora police and city officials.
Mayor Mike Coffman said he was “very disappointed” that Trump named Aurora in his speech
without mentioning the work of the city and Aurora...
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