My home is a Tren de Aragua war zone – yours could be next

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

In 2023, I noticed significant changes in my apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado, 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 to communities across our country—began patrolling my apartment building with weapons, breaking down doors and demanding keys from my neighbors.

They made our lives as unpleasant as possible – playing music around the clock, carrying out armed intimidation while we loitered outside our doors, banging on walls, driving motorcycles into buildings, and revving engines for air To fill with exhaust fumes 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 even the doors were replaced.

They would hold people up at gunpoint in the parking lot.

I tried to get law enforcement to intervene, but they told me their hands were tied.

Soon I was the last tenant of my building.

I installed six cameras inside and outside my home in the hopes that if danger came to my doorstep, I would have evidence and that the police would finally respond to my many cries for help.

On August 18th all hell broke loose.

Six masked gang members, armed with semi-automatic rifles and handguns, attempted to break into my neighbor’s house while I sat in fear just a few feet from the door.

I landed on the ground and wasn’t hurt.

But minutes later there was a shooting along my block.

More than 25 shots were fired and injured my friend, who later succumbed to his injuries.

The bullets left holes in the surrounding windows and in my and my husband’s cars.

Everything was caught on video — and while local police and Democratic Party leaders like Gov. Jared Polis and Rep. Jason Crow had long tried to deny the reality of what happened in Aurora, we finally had proof.

It didn’t matter. Police leadership was too focused on optics in pursuing the criminals who were breaking down doors and threatening my life, and they refused to do anything or even admit there was a problem.

Ten days later, I moved off my property and my video went viral, finally exposing what was happening not just in Aurora, but in communities large and small across America.

Democrats keep talking about valorizing lived experiences, but what about that? My Experiences and those of my neighbors?

I have been a Democrat all my life.

But my party doesn’t want anyone to expose the truth: Kamala Harris’ policies have unleashed a wave of terror, violence and death in small communities across the country.

The Democrats have turned their backs on me.

In October alone, illegal immigrants were accused of stabbing a man in Wisconsin, trafficking meth near schools in Georgia and raping a child in Massachusetts.

Harris has never spoken to the families of Rachel Morin or Jocelyn Nungaray – two women who were brutally murdered by illegal immigrants.

Since Harris took office, at least 1.5 million unvetted illegal immigrants have evaded Border Patrol and fled into the United States, in addition to 8.3 million known border crossers, and Harris and Biden’s mass amnesty protects half a million illegal immigrants , who are already in our country deportation.

In 2023 alone, more than 900,000 unvetted illegal immigrants were released into our communities to await court dates.

How many of them committed crimes in their home countries that we will never know about?

How many of them will terrorize, rape or murder our citizens here?

In Kamala Harris’s America, every state is a border state and every community is threatened.

Watching the media reduce my experience to a “handful” of apartments is unacceptable.

How many guns at your door is OK?

How many gang members are supposed to live in the hallway?

The answer is zerobecause no American should endure threats and fear from an illegal immigrant; No family should fall victim to a foreign gang on American soil.

Our elected officials must prioritize the safety of American citizens – not foreign criminals.

Kamala Harris can lie about her past and act like she cares about my safety all she wants, but the reality is that four more years of Harris will only bring more violence, more chaos and more destruction from gangs and other foreign ones would mean criminals who want to destroy our country from within.

Rejection is at your own risk.

You could be next.

Cindy Romero is a former Aurora resident whose viral video exposed Tren de Aragua’s violent tactics in her building.