The Biden-Harris administration “subsidized” the Venezuelan gang members who took over apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado, a neighborhood of Denver.
Christopher Rufo, a reporter, says that the story begins in 2021, when the American Rescue Plan Act was signed into law. The bill gave Colorado $3.8 billion, and Denver used some of that money to start a program to house and transfer illegal aliens.
Two leftist NGOs, ViVe Wellness and Papagayo, got more than $5 million of that $3.8 billion, supposedly to help find homes for Venezuelan criminal aliens. Two people who moved to the United States from Venezuela, Yoli Casas and Marielena Suarez, run the NGOs.
Casas runs ViVe Wellness. In the video clip below, you can see and hear him talking about getting a lot of money from taxpayers and then using it to take care of illegal immigrants.
Papagayo and ViVe Wellness paid owners to rent to criminal aliens. There were a lot of contracts made with CBZ Management, which Rufo says “managed the three apartment buildings in Aurora that were at the center of the Ecuadorian takeover scandal.”
“Within six months, according to [a former CBZ employee], about 80% of the people living in these houses were immigrants from Venezuela,” Rufo said.
They brought with them a lot of illegal activities, such as “trespassing, attack, extortion, drug use, illegal gun ownership, human trafficking, and sexual abuse.”
Rufo talked to volunteers who said they were excited to help the criminal aliens at first but lost interest over time.
As one volunteer put it, “I really want to help migrants, and I’m shocked at how the city is giving money to a group that clearly isn’t ready to handle it.”
Denver allegedly just decided to give even more money to these kinds of programs to move criminal aliens.
Rufo says that adding the extra strain to schools and the health care system could bring the total cost to Denver to as much as $340 million.
In Aurora, a nearby city, Venezuelan criminal aliens linked to the Tren de Aragua (TDA) prison gang have taken over several apartment buildings, and Rufo’s story comes at the same time as a lot of other stories about what’s going on there.
