EXCLUSIVE: GOP Reps Slam ‘Open Border Policies’ That Led To Migrant ‘Takeover’ In Colorado

Republican lawmakers called out “open border policies” of the Biden-Harris administration and local “sanctuary” policies for contributing to the Venezuelan gang reportedly terrorizing several apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado, according to a letter sent Friday.

GOP lawmakers claimed in the letter to local and federal leaders that the “immigration crisis in Colorado” was fueled by Democratic “sanctuary policies” like those in Denver. The letter was cosigned by Republican Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, as well as Colorado Republican Reps. Lauren Boebert, Doug Lamborn and Greg Lopez.

“The Biden-Harris Administration’s open border policies coupled with the state of Colorado’s sanctuary policies and the city of Denver’s sanctuary city status have fueled and exasperated the immigration crisis in Colorado,” the lawmakers said in the letter, obtained exclusively by the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation.

A Denver based law firm known as Perkins Coie investigated and confirmed that TdA had begun taking over the Whispering Pines Apartments in Aurora in late 2023, according to CBS News. Since then, the gang has engaged in numerous violent assaults, threats, instances of extortion and child prostitution.

“Multiple local elected officials and the nonpartisan Perkins Coie law firm that was hired to investigate the takeover have confirmed numerous criminal acts committed by TdA gang members including threats of murder, robbery, extortion, trespassing, assaults and battery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, drug related crimes, stolen vehicles, human trafficking and sexual abuse of minors,” the letter reads.