My Colorado home became a Tren de Aragua war zone — yours could be next By Cindy Romero

I never thought that I would fear for my life in my own home until it happened this year.

In 2023, I began to notice significant changes in my apartment complex in Aurora, Colo., less than 20 miles from the sanctuary city of Denver.
Local media have since reported that officials began busing illegal Venezuelan migrants into the area in December 2022 — but no one told us.

• Members of Tren de Aragua — a vicious Venezuelan prison gang that has brought sex trafficking and violent crime into communities across our country — began patrolling my apartment building with guns, beating down doors and demanding keys from my neighbors.
• They made life as uncomfortable for us as possible — blasting music at all hours, exerting armed intimidation while loitering outside our doors, banging on the walls, riding motorcycles into the buildings, and revving engines to fill the air with exhaust while we slept.
• Then they took over units in my building floor by floor.
• They started changing the locks on our buildings; in some cases, they even changed the doors.
• They would pull people over at gunpoint in the parking lot.
• I tried to get law enforcement to intervene, but they told me their hands were tied...