AURORA | Aurora, a city infamous for its movie theater massacre and record of police misconduct, has a new cause for national notoriety: election-season fear mongering about its undocumented immigrants.
Assertions that a Venezuelan gang has taken over apartment complexes, scared away police officers and overrun parts of the city have gone so viral among some conservatives this election season that Donald Trump cited them in the Sept. 10 presidential debate and continues to embellish them on the campaign trail.
“In Aurora, Colorado, entire apartment complexes are being taken over by armed Venezuelan gangs with weapons the likes of which even the military doesn’t see,” Trump said at a rally in Wisconsin earlier this month. “They’re terrorizing residents and they’re just menacing the whole state. …And they’re vicious, violent people.”…