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Christopher Rufo Says the Administration Subsidized the Venezuelan Migrants in Aurora

Christopher Rufo Says the Administration Subsidized the Venezuelan Migrants in Aurora
By: Twitchy - Politics Posted On: September 11, 2024 View: 2

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Our own Amy Curtis wrote a VIP post in August about Venezuelan gang members taking over an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado. Despite video evidence, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis dismissed the idea as "imagination," even as the mayor and police reports were confirming it was happening. There was video:

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A day later, Polis said he was taking the situation "seriously."

A day after that, the City of Aurora said that there had been a lot of misleading information going around, but that the city was concerned that there was a small Tren de Aragua presence in Aurora, but they had been taking it seriously and had made arrests. But, in short, the city blamed the landlords: "We will continue to address the problems that the absentee, out-of-state owners of these properties have allowed to fester unchecked."

Christopher Rufo and Christina Buttons have been following the money, and it led the back to the Biden-Harris administration.

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Denver, where the mayor recently announced cuts at the DMV and Parks and Recreation to allocate more resources to illegals. Layoffs, too.

… two Venezuelan immigrants who do not appear to have previous experience in large-scale migrant resettlement. Much of this funding was directly tied to ARPA, through the Migrant Support Grant program.

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Buttons and Rufo write for City Journal:

An obvious question: How did members of Venezuelan gangs suddenly find themselves in suburban Colorado? To answer this, we have conducted an exclusive investigation, which leads to a troubling conclusion: the Biden administration, in partnership with Denver authorities and publicly subsidized NGOs, provided the funding and logistics to place a large number of Venezuelan migrants in Aurora, creating a magnet for crime and gangs. And, worse, some of the nonprofits involved appear to be profiting handsomely from the situation.

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… According to public records, between 2023 and 2024, ViVe Wellness and Papagayo received $4.8 million and $774,000, respectively; much of this funding came from the Migrant Support Grant, which was funded by ARPA. Then, in 2024, ViVe secured an extra $10.4 million across three contracts, while Papagayo received $2.9 million from a single contract to serve migrants; two of those five contracts were awarded to implement the Denver Asylum Seekers Program, which promised six months of rental assistance to nearly 1,000 migrants.

With this funding in hand, the two NGOs began working with landlords to place migrants in housing units and to subsidize their rent. One of these organizations, Papagayo, worked with a landlord called CBZ Management, a property company that operates the three apartment buildings at the center of the current controversy: Edge of Lowry, Whispering Pines, and Fitzsimons Place, also known as Aspen Grove.

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It was a booming business. According to the employee, Papagayo arranged hundreds of contracts with the property manager. The NGO provided up to two months of rental assistance, as many migrants did not have, or were unable to open, bank accounts. Within six months, according to the employee, approximately 80 percent of the residents of these buildings were Venezuelan migrants. The employee also noted that the buildings saw gang activity and violence.

The employee, however, alleges that these agreements were made on false pretenses. To convince the hesitant employee to accept the migrants, Papagayo made assurances that the tenants had stable jobs and income. With limited English and facing a minimum six-month wait for work permits, though, many migrants were ineligible for legal employment, struggled to find stable jobs, and ultimately fell behind on rent.

This was only the beginning. As the Venezuelan migrants settled in the apartments, they caused lots of trouble. According to a confidential legal report we have obtained, based on witness reports, the apartments saw a string of crimes, including trespassing, assault, extortion, drug use, illegal firearm possession, human trafficking, and sexual abuse of minors. Each of the three apartment complexes has since shown a localized spike in crime.

So who knew gang members from Venezuela would be among the millions of illegal immigrants flooding the border? Rep. Dan Goldman said there would be doctors and scientists among the vegetable pickers, whom the U.S. badly needed. Here are two scientists right here:

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It's the NGOs. It's always the NGOs.

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Yep.

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