I never thought I would fear for my life in my own home until it happened this year.
In 2023, I started noticing significant changes at my apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado, less than 20 miles from the sanctuary city of Denver.
Local media have since reported that officials began transporting illegal Venezuelan migrants to the area in December 2022 – but no one told us.
Members of Tren de Aragua—a brutal Venezuelan prison gang that has brought sex trafficking and violent crime to communities across our country—began patrolling my apartment building with guns, breaking down doors and demanding keys from my neighbors.
They made life as unpleasant as possible for us: they played music all day long, used armed intimidation while hanging outside our doors, banged on the walls, rode motorcycles into buildings and revved engines to fill the air with exhaust fumes. filling while we slept.
They then took over floor by floor units in my building.
They started changing the locks on our buildings; in some cases they even changed the doors.
They would stop people at gunpoint in the parking lot.
I tried to get the police to intervene, but they told me their hands were tied.
I soon became the last leaseholder of my building.
I installed six cameras inside and outside my home, hoping that if danger came to my door, I would have proof and that the police would finally respond to my many calls for help.
On August 18, all hell broke loose.
Six masked gang members, armed with semi-automatic rifles and pistols, tried to break into my neighbor’s house while I sat terrified just a few feet away from the door.
I fell to the ground and was not injured.
But minutes later, a gunfight broke out along the entire length of my block.
More than 25 shots rang out, wounding my friend, who later succumbed to his wounds.
Bullets left holes in nearby windows and in my and my husband’s cars.
It was all caught on video – and although local police and Democratic Party leaders like Governor Jared Polis and Representative Jason Crow had long tried to deny the reality of what happened in Aurora, we finally had proof.
It didn’t matter. The police leadership was too focused on optics to pursue 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 from the property and my video went viral, finally revealing what is happening not only in Aurora, but in communities large and small across America.
Democrats talk on and on about elevating lived experiences, but what about? Mine experiences and those of my neighbors?
I have been a lifelong Democrat.
But my party does not 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 turned their backs on me.
In October alone, illegal immigrants have been accused of stabbing a man in Wisconsin, dealing meth near schools in Georgia and raping a child in Massachusetts.
Harris never spoke to the families of Rachel Morin and Jocelyn Nungaray – two women who were brutally murdered by illegal immigrants.
Since Harris came to power, at least 1.5 million illegal immigrants have evaded border patrol and fled to the United States. 8.3 million known border crossingsand Harris and Biden’s mass amnesty protects half a million illegal immigrants already in our country from deportation.
In 2023 alone, more than 900,000 unvetted illegal immigrants were released into our communities to await court hearings.
How many of them committed crimes in their home countries that we will never know about?
How many of them will continue to terrorize, rape or murder our citizens here?
In Kamala Harris’s America, every state is a border state and every community is under threat.
It is unacceptable to see media outlets reduce my experience to one that involved only a “handful” of apartments.
How many guns outside your door are okay?
How many gang members do you want down the hall?
The answer is zerobecause no American should have to endure the threats and fear of an illegal immigrant; no family should be the victim of 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 criminal record and pretend she cares about my safety all she wants, but the reality is that four more years of Harris would only mean more violence, more chaos and more destruction at the hands of gangs and other foreign criminals who want. to destroy our country from within.
Refuse at your own peril.
You could be next.
Cindy Romero is a former Aurora resident whose viral video exposed Tren de Aragua’s violent tactics in her building.
