As the Aurora Sentinel’s Cassandra Ballard reports, despite half-hearted attempts by Aurora’s Republican Mayor Mike Coffman to combat rampant misinformation about the city spread in large part by Donald Trump in stump speeches throughout the country including just inside the boundaries of Aurora itself, a member of the GOP-controlled Aurora City Council, Danielle Jurinsky, who fully embraced the false narrative that the city has been “taken over” by migrant gangs, is now celebrating the imminent “Operation Aurora” to deport the largest number of persons from the country in history–and warning the Aurora Police Department and other agencies with the effrontery to dispute the party line to get ready to cooperate when Trump’s federal deportation force arrives:
The Aurora City Council member who promoted the disputed Venezuelan gang narrative that drew Donald Trump to Aurora in October told city officials the president-elect’s administration has contacted her about implementing mass deportations.
“Operation Aurora is coming,” Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky said during the Nov. 14 meeting of the Aurora City Council Public Safety meeting. “On a very serious note, there seems to be a disconnect with the incoming administration and the City of Aurora. So I hope that we are taking this seriously.”
Jurinsky promoted what police and city officials have repeatedly said was a false-narrative on local and then national right-wing radio and TV programs about Aurora apartments and parts of the city being overrun with Venezuelan gang members.
Police have repeatedly said Jurinsky’s claims are inaccurate, and that no Aurora apartment buildings, neighborhoods or streets are “overrun” by Venezuelan or any gangs. Jurinsky’s critics called the allegations anti-immigrant rhetoric. [Pols emphasis]
Jurinsky may not have the facts on her side, but what she does have is a newly-elected President who was never at any point interested in the facts, whether in Aurora where migrant gangs have not overrun the city, or in Springfield, Ohio where the legal Haitian immigrant population is not eating the dogs and cats. Branding Trump’s mass deportation promise as “Operation Aurora” is nothing less than a frontal assault on attempts to correct the record, attempts that there is no doubt reached the campaign’s ears and were summarily disregarded.
In short, it doesn’t matter that Aurora has not actually been “overrun” and therefore is not in need of armed occupation by federal troops. The occupation of Aurora by federal troops is what Danielle Jurinsky wants, no matter what misery and injustice results. Federal officers who arrive in Aurora under the pretense that the city has been “overrun” are not going to find that to be the case, but there will be many thousands of immigrants who statistically commit far fewer crimes than the native-born readily available to be persecuted. The mismatch between the violent false expectations and reality increases the chances of an indefensibly tragic outcome.
Whichever side you are on, Jurinsky is right that the consequences will very soon no longer be hypothetical.
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"Operation Aurora is coming…"
I take it this means Operation Xenophobia and Hate is coming to Aurora all based on the false premises of a F A T orange man with a severe mental illness. Never mind the corrupt landlords or the appalling conditions of squalor no, it's all about who your neighbors are and if they're white enough to live in the filth that has been created for them.
Imagine being so consumed by racist hate that you’d celebrate the SS and Gestapo coming to your town. Hopefully Gov. Polis does the right thing and calls up the Colorado National Guard to defend the people of Aurora.
I expect the Operation Aurora effort will have all of the clarity as the "Muslim ban" of Trump I.
There's been a great deal of speculation how things will play out … private prison corporations have been doing VERY well on the stock exchange.
Anyone know what organizations are preparing to ramp up in some type of opposition to Trump, his Immigration triumvirate, and whatever emerges as "Operation Aurora"?
Haitian immigrants in Springfield have already started fleeing because they know they can't trust their neighbors to defend them. One would hope Aurorans are better, but considering the risks, I doubt it.
Jurinsky and the Jurinskys of Aurora would probably beg to differ? There's a world of difference between mob rule and majority rule; even a handful mob of Jurinsky's/Tlump's "good people."
I have been wondering what they are going to do with all the TV's and possessions that get confiscated. The Feds are probably not going to let the people that they deport leave with their possessions. No U-Hauls for the deportees. Even if there are only 6 million TV's out of 12 million people, that's still a lot of TV's. Seems like Trump Used TV's is on the horizon. Wonder how that is going to affect the electronic stores around the country. And then there will be all the other stuff. Seems like sales are going to suffer in multiple ways with this mad scheme.
Who gives a dam about TV's, etc. You can't take all that with you when you leave this world. Somebody will get it. I prefer safety. They should not be here anyway. Did they do all they have done for them…for us when COVID hit. No they didn't. F#@! em all. Send them on their way.
(Pssst. This is precisely the kind thoughtful fact-based discourse and logically well reasoned thinking that today’s FOXnews party, the intellectual descendants of William F. Buckley, remain capable of.)
(Or, maybe “the late, great Hannibal Lecter”??? It’s so hard keeping all the players straight these days.)
Thanks so much for your invaluable insights xxyyzz! I can’t imagine I could have ever come up with that on my own? I also can’t tell you how much I, for one, appreciate your taking your time to helping all of us learn something new here today.
So, yeah. F#@! all em dam TVs! Who needs em, anyways!?!? We’d be way better off without em (except for when FOX is on, of course)!!
"They should not be here anyway…"
What tribe did you say you were from? I'm pretty sure my Cherokee and Choctaw forebears might say the same about you.
Oh…BTW. If you are going to swear…learn to spell it.
TVs. No apostrophe. It's plural not possesive. And who is "they"? You sound like a typical MAGA, which is not a compliment. But do go on, Qaren.
CIRC ( Colordo Immigrant Rights Coalition) is a great place to start. They've been pushing back on immigrant hate for years. Get on their mailing list.
The Aurora Sentinel will continue to be a reliable source for news about the situation:
https://sentinelcolorado.com/metro/aurora-immigrants-gird-for-deportations-amid-trumps-threats-and-local-promises/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_campaign=Newspack%20Newsletter%20(828236)
Polis definitely does not have the guts to do that. And, even if he did, Trump would just federalize the Guard and render the move academic.
Polis would not do that because it's anti-democracy. We lost the election. That sucks. It means Trump gets to implement operation aurora. Resisting that with guns is Civil War.
Well, your premise is that “Operation Aurora” would be authorized by federal law and also that any effort to protect potential victims would violate federal law. Neither is necessarily true.
And my point is that Jared Polis has never, ever shown even the tiniest amount of political courage. He is the ultimate status quo politician. No matter how abusive, unlawful, or violent any “Operation Aurora” turns out to be, Polis will naively believe he can “work with” the tyrant and remain quiet in the interest of some future political ambition.
Of course, it’s good to disclose my priors. I regard Polis as the least effective, most shallow Colorado governor in historical memory.
If this happens in the way Steven Miller ( Trump's immigration czar) wants it to, it calls for a massive counter-demonstration – for the streets of Aurora to be filled by citizens peacefully saying "No- you can't take away our neighbors without due process".
Then the really heavy handed anti-protest abuse of force starts. Besides remember how Democrats folded at the sight of college students using their freedom of speech for Gaza?
Setting up encampments on public property and committing vandalism are not legitimate forms of protest and those activities are, in fact, illegal. But protesting in the time-honored way of marching, with signs and chants, is legal.
Dont worry you'll have plenty of citizens to say are illegal and vandals and that grass will never grow back to show what a collaborator you are
I don't really understand the meaning of this comment.
I gonna’ take a stab at guessing it means Friday happy hour started early and went so well that it ran into overtime? 😉
It looks like a set-up, doesn't it ? They will provoke trouble somewhere…wherever they can. Aurora draws the short straw.
Yep, they are going to commit acts of cruelty to the immigrant community, the trans community, the… there will be protest… “Look at how good we are supporting cops! We aren’t even listening to the accusations of police brutality. Besides these are the evil “woke” college students not your children”
The mob is primed for mindless disagreement look at Jaguar. Here a company had the audacity to market a $130k ELECTRIC limousine to limousine liberals.
Nobody seems to think for themselves they just parrot what the wealthest man on the planet and owner of a competing EV manufacturer told them to believe about what the competing EV manufacturer hasn’t shown them.
There are going to be show raids. There is going to be a new communication of who is an “okay one” (not an armband), after all that’s what this is segregation lite with a hazy “you don’t look like right” justification.
"Hysteria" was a best selling music album in 1987 by Def Leppard.
Seems like people are getting all upset about rumor mongering and missing the bigger picture.
Consider that there's a good chance that anyone coming to Colorado might be National Guard forces from TX or maybe OK. Few of them will know their way around metro-Denver. What are they going to do to find migrants? Go neighbrhood by neighborhood breaking doors down? Somebody tries breaking my door down immediately triggers the Colorado "make my day" law and 2nd amendment issues. What if they go to some of those apartment complexes along Colfax and don't find anybody they want? What if migrants have disappeared to other places within "Metro." Recall that the family of Anne Frank was hidden by sympathetic Dutch people for a couple years during WW II. Think about it.
Yeah. And I ain't expecting any sugar to be poured.
Rhetorically wondering when the last time was that Jurinsky read the old "first they came for …. " quote. First, the Venezuelans of course, but who's next?
Undoubtedly, the “skys” the limit.
The whole thing has me at my witz end
the "Wokes"?
She puts the "Bitch" in "Resting Bitch Face".
I just started 'Operation Aurora Assistance' this last week.
Retired LEO's and ICE agents are lining up to help Ms Jurinsky and the Citizens of Aurora.
"If you invade my people, you have to come through me"