Blame the Biden admin for Venezuelan gangs, migrants taking over Aurora, Colorado
by Christopher Ruffo
How did members of Venezuelan gangs suddenly find themselves in Colorado’s suburbs?
The troubling conclusion: The Biden administration, in partnership with Denver authorities and publicly subsidized NGOs, provided the funding and logistics to place a large number of Venezuelan migrants in Aurora, creating a magnet for crime and gangs.
And, worse, some of the nonprofits involved appear to be profiting handsomely from the situation.
The story begins in 2021, when the Biden administration signed the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) into law, allocating $3.8 billion in federal funds to Colorado.
The city of Denver, which had declared itself a “welcoming city” to migrants, drew on this reservoir of money to launch its Emergency Migrant Response resettlement program, with the goal of housing and providing services to a massive flow of migrants.
Denver, in turn, signed multimillion-dollar contracts with two local NGOs, ViVe Wellness and Papagayo, to provide housing and services to more than 8,000 predominantly Venezuelan migrants.
These NGOs are run, respectively, by...
https://nypost.com/2024/09/12/opinion/blame-the-biden-admin-for-venezuelan-gangs-migrants-taking-over-aurora-colorado/
