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Aurora, Colorado Mayor Mike Kaufman made it clear. Denver's historically been a sanctuary city. Aurora has not. His city is not a safe haven for illegal immigrants. Not our problem, federal problem. That's why he's trying to figure out how so many ended up in places like the troubled Edge at Lowry and Whispering Pines Apartments.
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Somebody put them there and somebody funded it. Critics say these buildings have turned into human dumping grounds and magnets for crime, attracting ruthless Venezuelan gang members and quickly becoming a blight on the community. The other night I sat out here, I counted 31 gunshots in 25 minutes. In this joint investigation with Frontline's Turning Point USA and Manhattan
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Inside the Aurora Migrant Complex

Our intrepid documentarian investigates the crisis in Colorado.
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Yesterday, we reported on the flow of funds from the Biden-Harris Administration to the migrant NGOs that subsidized the chaos in Aurora, Colorado. Now, we are proud to publish a video dispatch from journalist Jonathan Choe, who went to the scene of the crisis and investigated the allegations of disorder, violence, and corruption.

Watch the short documentary and share your thoughts in the comments.

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This video was produced in cooperation with Turning Point USA Frontlines.

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Louisa Enright's avatar

Another money laundering scheme using tax payer dollars.

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Timothy G McKenna's avatar

Oh, but the folks in charge will fix this better next time, after the elections, if we only let them keep their jobs.

Note to leaders (both parties): stop peeing on our shoes and telling us it’s raining!!!

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Ari Kirsch's avatar

This is evidence of FJB/Heels Up regime execution of the Cloward Piven strategy and certain justification of voting this cancerous regime out. How much more must our citizens suffer??

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stayin gold's avatar

Only as much as we allow. Fight back and imprison all responsible for this invasion!!!!!!

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Lydia Lozano's avatar

And how much more of this must we finance with our tax dollars?

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Tim Green's avatar

All of it.

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Upstart's avatar

Whenever I hear music used in a documentary of any kind I assume that makers of the documentary are trying to sway me with means extrinsic to the proof they have. This is a common practice which I urge you to give up; make your argument straightforwardly.

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BeadleBlog's avatar

I agree with you. I detest emotional manipulation, even if I agree with the message. Just give me the facts.

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Mimi's avatar

Well the facts are what your eyes are seeing and words spoken. Do you ever watch 20/20, or Dateline or every documentary out there. All have music.

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David Silverberg's avatar

Upstart, an interesting comment. So even if you agree, the use of music to create an ominous tone is what stands out to you? But isn't that truthful? IMHO I do not see anything wrong with giving a video about fed support of community destruction an ominous tone. I think you may be engaging is self-silencing and self-sensorship. Feel free to detest emotional manipulation that support lies but this is a truth and IMHO the soundtrack is truthful. What is going on is quite terrible.

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The Real Mary Rose's avatar

To those who don't like being emotionally manipulated, it's not a good thing, no. It's a signal to think or feel a certain way. I would prefer to think my own way. Hard to do with an ominous or happy sound track.

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Throgmorton's avatar

Well, there are subtitles, so you can mute the sound and supply your own music, whether it is Bach's Toccata and Fugue or Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini. Perhaps the soundtrack to Space Odyssey is more to your taste?

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The Real Mary Rose's avatar

Testy & triggered is no way to go through life.

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Throgmorton's avatar

Someone who complains about being emotionally manipulated by soundtracks ought to know, LOL!

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The Real Mary Rose's avatar

Try reading my comment again for comprehension, since that's not at all what I said. The easily triggered don't know how to listen, you're too busy knee-jerking. "LOL!"

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liney sue's avatar

THINK

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c Anderson's avatar

Upstart is just a bit sensitive right now. All the extrinsic stuff is overwhelming. 🤡

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liney sue's avatar

Grow up!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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c Anderson's avatar

Triggered? Take a chill pill Suzy.

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Bryn Cannon's avatar

As a musician and a composer, I completely agree.

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The Real Mary Rose's avatar

Isn't it interesting how personal some of these people take an opinion about music? My God, you'd think you just accused them of murder.

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c Anderson's avatar

So you want someone to control what you hear? Frankly, that is just dumb when as a composer, I would think you want to sell music.

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Bryn Cannon's avatar

Because I love music, I prefer if people don’t abuse it to manipulate people’s emotions, as Upstart said above. It’s a cheap trick. If you think this point of view is dumb, fine. Some of us just see it differently.

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c Anderson's avatar

Are you trying to manipulate my emotions with your post? Music can be a cheap trick? Maybe we should outlaw music because it might be considered mind control. So you think when they play the country’s anthem when athletes receive medals at the Olympics is manipulation? Music is free speech. So how are we to set up the rules for music so that there is zero chance of manipulation?

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c Anderson's avatar

Muting every bright color would also help. Red circles, and red Xs used to draw attention are insulting. 🤡

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Bryn Cannon's avatar

c, you seem triggered. The point being made here is just that the video footage is enough to get the point across. You don’t need scary music to stoke more fear.

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The Real Mary Rose's avatar

Maybe he did the sound track - hahahaha!

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The Real Mary Rose's avatar

Yes they should leave out the emotional manipulation music.

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Keep America Free's avatar

Who gives a flip whether or not music is played! We have a corrupt system and corrupt Denver leaders (progressive Dems btw, as are most political leaders in blue cities and states) using taxpayer dollars to fund an invasion of illegals. That seems to be a huge problem, soundtrack or not!

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Tex Regan's avatar

Seriously? Music is your complaint? LOOK SQUIRREL!

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Michael Miller's avatar

No explanation beside a deliberate destruction of our country, allowing the blob to “rescue” us and impose their power and control. Last chance to halt the communist revolution may close if not acted upon.

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Richard Fahrner's avatar

well, not so sure I would call the intro and lite background "sound" , real music. The actual content is what I find compelling. The reporter actually got shots of what is going on. Normally that is very dangerous to secure, as the perpetrators do not what their faces shown, or the light of day to arrive. Next, all that money and no one has record of what it is going for. IMO nothing good, simply trying to cover up what this admin has been doing to the American people, at our expense.

I am all for deportations, starting Jan 21, 2025 and we use every method necessary to find illegals, and send them back home. At the same time, the border is closed for business, til further notice.

take care, good reporting Chris and team.

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David Silverberg's avatar

So much to unpack. A great demonstration of how the libs/ beauracratic state (1) have much too much money and (2) how they use funds as they see fit regardless of the earmark of the funds and (3) how the fed funds incompetency and (4) how the immigration crisis is a big money-machine for the corrupt parts of government and (5) why gov and gov money needs to be "closer to the people" when possible because, when it is not, it hurts people.

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JerrkyD's avatar

Interesting the documentary says that, Since 2022 more than 43,000 migrants have landed in the mile high city and cost Denver more than $70 million. I live in Massachusetts and we have had an influx of far far fewer migrants in the last year and and it has cost the State of Massachusetts more than one billion dollars to date (yes, one billion $$). What we haven't seen is crime and rampant homelessness because the state has thrown absolutely massive resources (tax payer dollars) towards these migrants (resources that impoverished Massachusetts residents don't get!). It goes to show there are two ways to manage this crises. Either throw massive amounts of resources towards these migrants or don't throw resources at them and watch how your community will be ruined. Both ways of dealing with the crises are utterly unsustainable. Close the border and send most of them back!

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Polly Styrene's avatar

Honestly, it’s the low end segments of society we are receiving who just aren’t able to land on their feet and contribute. There are other ways to improve demographics. If it’s young people we want more of in our country — HUNGARY has a very good model. But in Canada, our politicians are far too greedy, wanting gold plated paychecks, and pensions and this is the easy way to get it.

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The Real Mary Rose's avatar

The communists need to destroy the traditional American way of life before implementing their Smart Cities and digital feudal system. This is part of it. Look for more of this, everywhere. To destroy a country, you first destroy the culture. Illegals are treated better than US citizens across the board and WE are forced to pay for it. This is what you get with Biden/Harris.

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Cathy Gardino's avatar

America is being killed by bloated NGO's and Non-profits... Shut it down

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Polly Styrene's avatar

And they’re getting paid so richly to participate in the destruction of America

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Ts Blue's avatar

Truly criminal.

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HG's avatar

good job chris

i have forwarded this to many aquaintences that think these are exaggerated stories.

it is short and compelling

keep them coming !

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Polly Styrene's avatar

These are the migrants that showed up on the border and are finding their way across the US. Why did the US take them in? This is the Democrats problem, wef, humanity, all that. That landlord got what he deserved those low end humans thought everything would be free in the land of milk and Honey. Rent? What? I ain’t paying no rent.

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Spud Ruckus's avatar

They are literally using these migrants as a bioweapon.

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Bryan Leed's avatar

Unfortunately, it is a classic truth. Government housing always becomes a giant slum and cesspool for crime. Military is the exception because they enforce discipline.

Our problem today is the Democrat party is hell-bent upon turning all American citizens into destitute people at the level of migrant workers. They're doing this by overloading neighborhoods of poor Americans with these illegal immigrants. Not a mistake, it is intended and then camouflaged as a mistake. Oops, my bad, if they are caught.

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me's avatar

The IRS extracts the money from each of your paychecks and it ends up destroying our towns and cities. And of course, somebody puts a bunch of it in their pockets.

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Nick Brown's avatar

All paid for by money taken from us, the taxpayer. "It's not the government paying for it, they're non-profits!" they'll scream, then turn around and swallow up massive government grants. "Migrants looking for the American Dream!" Sorry, no. Their version of "The American Dream" is to be completely taken care of by welfare so they can run around in gangs all day and night. "They're working and taking care of their families!" OH?!? HOW??? Working in the USA is illegal for people who are not here legally. Every job taken by one of these people is a job stolen from an American who then has to get a lesser job, which displaces someone else, and so on, eventually leaving the last American in the line of dominoes out of a job and ON WELFARE. This system is SICK and BROKEN... intentionally, I might add.

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Geoffrey Lee's avatar

Thank you for further educating me on how these migrant housing situations work. It's too bad that American citizens wind up suffering. But they need to think about how they are voting. They have a chance to vote again pretty soon. And if they vote again for the same people that did this to them, well then shame on them. They're gonna get more of what they voted for.

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Poolside at the Decline's avatar

"they need to think about how they are voting"

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“Mom, I am beginning to think he was right about everything”

“Yes Honey, he was right, but he gave people mean nicknames on Twitter and said some boorish things about women, so your father and I choose to vote for complete economic collapse and irreversible destruction of our culture.”

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Polly Styrene's avatar

But is it only dem cities getting these migrants?

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Geoffrey Lee's avatar

No, we're all unfortunately getting them, as you say. But it's their voting that's causing it.

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Tina B's avatar

My heart goes out the citizens. It is obvious you need to follow the money. Why were Covid funds being used to house illegal immigrants when you have small businesses that had to close. The needs of American citizens and communities should have been the priority.

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Polly Styrene's avatar

Slumlord looking to make some money with no regard to the damage to society he was doing - looks good on him.

But is it true the Haitians are eating pets? I mean ducks I can forgive since you’d find them in a grocery store - there are photos of people walking on the street with obviously just caught ducks. But everywhere immigrants arrive there are cultural clashes. I don’t understand why one of these fucking NGOs can’t do a “cultural sensitivity for new arrivals” course.

Here in Ontario, we have low end Indians crapping on our beaches because that’s what some do back in India (I realize the lower end of society is responsible for this, but these are the people we are receiving on our borders not the quality, self-sufficient people.). The problem is, we don’t have tides to wash it away on a freshwater lake. Are they so stupid not to know this? Bury diapers too. Or just leave them under a rock. I sat down on a hike to have my lunch and smelled human excrement. Sure enough. Plus garbage management. Some tip stuff onto the escarpment after a picnic absolutely hard to police.

Through a lifetime of travel, I was always aware and culturally sensitive so that I didn’t step on any toes. There is little to no reciprocity. But we are receiving the low end of the societies that are immigrating because people doing well tend to stay where they are.

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Nick Brown's avatar

"I don't understand why one of these NGOs can't do a 'cultural sensitivity for new arrivals' course."

I agree, of course (although they shouldn't be here at all, but I digress). But the people doing this don't like our culture, don't care about teaching anyone about it and appreciation for it. They despise it. If anything, they'll teach us to be sensitive to what the invaders like/want. We are the ones who need to change, in their minds.

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Polly Styrene's avatar

And that seems to be the expectation - working in recreation part time, we get alot of the new ones (they seem to have enough money to recreate at a fairly expensive resort, and do my tour which costs a bit ). If I challenge, or pushback a behaviour or incident, it usually results in “you’re a racist”. And by push back what I mean is if I ask someone who is talking over my safety talk to please listen.

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Frau Katze's avatar

Can’t wait to vote against Trudeau.

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Terry M.'s avatar

Harris is now proposing dumping more taxpayer dollars into the housing market that will be siphoned off by crooks and landlords in ways similar to this. It is not enough to say what government will do. They have to tell us how it will work and who is accountable before we authorize expenditure. But the history of Democrats is one of spend, spend, spend by Executive Orders.

But, hey, Trump mentioned Haitians and pets. Harris did a great job!

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Uncle Juan's avatar

Local citizens need to rise up

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Frau Katze's avatar

Need to vote the Dems out. Just like we Canadians need to dump Trudeau and his massive immigration push.

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Eugine Nier's avatar

Colorado has vote-by-fraud. Won't happen.

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Rich Miller's avatar

Good investigative reporting once again coming from Christopher Rufo and Turning Point/Charlie Kirk. I can remember when, not too long ago (maybe 10 years), we used to get this kind of investigative journalism and real news from the corporate media. Now, they’ve all become mainstream propagandists, focused on helping Democrats, deep state operatives, corrupt NPOs, and sanctuary cities and states, cover up stories like this, especially around election time. As we saw with ABC’s debate moderation the other night, they’ll squelch stories like this by reporting that “there is no evidence to support” these claims. It’s frustrating, like living in an alternative universe, or at least a socialist dictatorship with state-run media.

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Poolside at the Decline's avatar

From a law and order point of view its really quite simple > You get more of what you tolerate. Leftists excel at making the problem complicated.

So, want this situation (and things like this) to go away? Simple> if you are not a citizen and you commit a crime (determined administratively) you are on the next plane outa here.

OK. Maybe not a total solution, but this single policy will address a large portion of the lawlessness problem.

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Cathy Gardino's avatar

Thank you for honest informative reporting

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Robert Shannon's avatar

Reminds me of my years in Detroit's inner city managing apartments and flats over stores back in the early 1960's. The flats usually 1 or 2 Bdr. units were the biggest problem when Gypsies, who would pose as just regular people, would rent a unit. Rent collection visits invariably exposed many more people living in the units that were allowed to be there. Evicting them was a costly, time consuming job even back then, and caused many problems. Fortunately I eventually got to the point of being able to spot them before renting a unit.

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Tex Regan's avatar

MSM said this is not happening. So do not believe your lying eyes. Bidenomics is AWESOME! It is Trump who caused all this inflation. Kamala is HOPE & JOY!

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Alexander Scipio's avatar

Just shoot them. They’re invaders. Wasting yet more money arresting, trying, imprisoning is just stupid.

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Tina B's avatar

Alexander Scorpio, understand the temptation behind your comment. This would only allow leftist judicial systems to incarcerate innocent law abiding Americans which they are to eager to do.

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Alexander Scipio's avatar

“… if you can keep it…”

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carily myers's avatar

In SC we follow the SSS system. (shoot/shovel/silence) It works.

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Tina B's avatar

🤣

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Mark Brown's avatar

Well done! Thank you!

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Indio's avatar

Dear Christopher,

Thank you for showing us the truth about the situation.

This is what is important, as the main stream/legacy media

continues to lie without end. Please continue.

Love, Indio

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Woke PIG Killer's avatar

Don’t deport these motherfuckers. Take them down to the border and toss them all back over. They can walk back to Venezuela

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elyse moses's avatar

The fine citizens of r/denver claim all of this is made up every time someone dares to post about it. The Denver metro is getting what it deserves.

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Eugine Nier's avatar

That's because reddit will ban anyone who tells the truth.

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Insufficiently Sensitive's avatar

Dang, our local Seattle Times informs us from an AP article that <i> "Police in the Denver suburb of Aurora say a Venezuela street gang with a small presence in the city has not taken over a rundown apartment complex."</i>

The joy of being an Influencer of the benighted public, and gettting paid for it.

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ASensibleMan's avatar

It's hilarious that freaking Colorado now has toxic Orthodox Jew landlords! These pests own thousands of apartments in NYC and are regularly all over the worst landlords lists. These people will happily rent to gang members or even horned demons from hell if it means they can grift on some government funds.

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Paul Mohr's avatar

Wait, didn’t the ABC moderator claim this wasn’t happening when President Trump pointed it out?

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Mimisan3Atl's avatar

NGOs are the source of a lot of this country’s problems right now. Lots of $ going lots of places with zero accountability.

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