Migrants and people experiencing homelessness have begun to panhandle door to door in Aurora, according to resident Tanya Tabacheck.
Tabacheck addressed the Aurora City Council Monday during the public comment period. “The migrants, they’re everywhere,” Tabacheck said. She said a woman from North Dakota knocked on her door asking for money. The woman said she was denied services in Colorado due to not being from the state.
“Our door, my house, where I live,” Tabacheck emphasized, saying both people experiencing homelessness and migrants have asked for money. “It’s happened more than once in my neighborhood that people come up to our house. That’s scary. The migrants are overflowing from Denver to Aurora, you have people from other states coming in going up to people’s houses.”
Council member Danielle Jurinsky sympathized with Tabacheck, saying the migrant influx is a problem “especially when we have Americans being thrown out on the streets because of how Denver is choosing to handle this,” she said, referring to migrants bussed from Aurora to Denver. “I would implore the mayor of Denver to declare Denver is not a sanctuary city and plea with the Biden administration to shut down our border.”