I feel like it’s a slap in the face,” Cindy Romero said. “How many gangs is okay to have in Aurora? How many properties is okay to take over? How many people, who are

Sen. JD Vance is standing by his running mate, former President Donald Trump, and his false claims that Venezuelan gangs have invaded and conquered Aurora, Colorado.

The mayor and police chief of Aurora, Colorado, are pushing back on claims that the city is "overtaken by Venezuelan gangs."

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump visited Aurora, Colorado, to hold an event his campaign said would focus on “Tren de Aragua, a gang of Venezuelan illegal immigrants,” which they said is terrorizing the city.

The Post was the first to report on Tren de Aragua’s infiltration of the city of 390,000 — where several apartment complexes were taken over by the violent Venezuelan prison gang.

Outside 1218 Dallas St. in Aurora, one of the apartments at the center of alleged gang activity, residents and community organizers pushed back on Trump’s speech that linked violent crime with migrants called for a mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.

Donald Trump campaigned in Aurora, Colorado, focusing on illegal immigration, using dehumanizing rhetoric and false claims about Venezuelan gangs. He pledged to deport criminal immigrants and invoked violent imagery.