Last week's headline reporting that a Venezuelan gang had taken over and terrorized an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado, stunned observers and pierced through the "Boiling frog" syndrome that often prevents U.S. media from accurately conveying the severity of the border crisis.
The gang, Tren de Aragua, forcibly seized Aurora's Aspen Grove Apartments from its landlords and began patrolling the migrant-packed complex with high-powered weaponry, including AR-15s and AK-47s. The brazen nature of the takeover, common in Latin America but unprecedented in the United States, alarmed local citizens.
Aurora's interim police chief, Heather Morris, recently denied there is a gang problem in the town, contradicting video evidence and coordinated city statements by declaring, "Gang members have not taken over." While Morris assured the community that the police are taking the threat seriously, she seemed more focused on deflecting blame for her department's failure to prevent the incident.
Frustrated citizens, who have voiced their criticisms of Morris and the Aurora Police Department in the national media, might explain the seemingly delusional response to the gang's apartment takeover.
The Aurora resident Cindy Romero, speaking with CBS, expressed frustration with the a pattern of police inaction: "The police would call me and say they weren't coming unless it was a severe crime."
There's very little these agencies can reasonably do to stop coordinated cartel operations given the increasing scale and robust civil liberty protections afforded to narco-terrorists in the U.S. Aurora's experience with a rogue Venezuelan gang is not the only evidence of increasing cartel confidence in the United States.
American leadership still has time to close Pandora's box, but the clock is ticking as communities across the nation brace for a future akin to Aurora's.
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