Aurora official slams Denver’s sanctuary city policies over gang crime

An official in the Denver suburb of Aurora is fed up with leaders in her state for allowing sanctuary policies that rolled out the proverbial welcome mat to Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua and the violent crime it has unleashed onto her community.

City Council member Danielle Jurinsky has served as a leading voice against providing incentives to migrants in Aurora — especially after the council passed a resolution in February saying it will refuse to offer aid for migrants from neighboring cities.

However, Aurora’s bigger neighbor next door — Denver — is a sanctuary city, which has continued to attract more migrants, many of them from Venezuela.

Tren de Aragua has come with them — and the gang is spilling into Aurora.

Denver has received the largest number of migrants per capita across the nation with more than 40,000 new arrivals since December 2022.

“To our governor and to the mayor of Denver, I refuse to be silenced. I refuse to play the game of politics with you regarding this migrant crisis. And I will continue to speak up and speak out and help as many people as I can,” Jurinsky told The Post.

Neither the governor nor the mayor’s offices immediately responded to The Post’s requests for comment.

The councilwoman also pointed the finger at the Biden-Harris administration, saying the people of Aurora are “suffering” at their “hands.”

Tren de Aragua has set up shop in Aurora — which has a population of 390,000 and is situated directly east of the Mile-High City — seizing control of multiple apartment building and carrying out violent robberies, shootings and assaults, authorities say.

“I worry about everything that I know regarding this gang. And I worry about everything that I don’t know,” Jurinsky said.

The Post recently identified its “shot-caller” for the region, Jhonardy Jose Pacheco-Chirino, who is known as “Galleta,” which means “Cookie” in Spanish.

While in Aurora, Pacheco-Chirino alongside fellow gangsters brutally beat a man at an apartment complex that is allegedly run by the group. He was arrested and then let go on bail.

He was caught again in July for a shooting at the same complex, where two men were wounded.

Tren de Aragua, a prison gang hailing from the Aragua region of Venezuela, has been sending its members across the US-Mexico border for years while also recruiting within the US among migrant communities, mainly in New York, Denver and Chicago.

Homeland Security sources have confirmed that the gang is tied to several violent crimes in sanctuary states, which include the killing of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley earlier this year. In New York City, the gang has been tied to the shooting of two NYPD cops in June and is said to be smuggling guns into local migrant shelters.

In Denver, Tren de Aragua member Jean Torres-Roman, 21, allegedly helped carry out a violent caught-on-camera robbery of a Denver jewelry store on June 25. Torres-Roman, who was released from custody in Chicago a month before after he was caught trying to stash a stolen gun, fled to El Paso, Texas, after the burglary and was caught at a local motel.

Tren de Aragua’s leadership also recently gave a “green light” for its members to shoot and attack cops across the US.