The Aurora City Council voted Monday to direct City Manager Jason Batchelor to use a Colorado Open Records Act request to obtain information from the City and County of Denver and the State of Colorado about how migrants were settled in Aurora apartments.
Aurora has attracted the nation’s attention due to claims by former President Donald Trump that Venezuelan gangs have overtaken the city. Indeed, some buildings in the city have fallen under the control of gangs, police admitted after initially downplaying reports. Throughout the entire ordeal, council member Danielle Jurinsky, who spoke at Trump’s rally in Aurora, has maintained that Denver placed many of the migrants in Aurora. She sponsored the resolution authorizing the investigation.
Denver spokesman: We didn’t ‘place’ migrants
In an email, Denver spokesman Jon Ewing denied that city money was used to place migrants in any of the troubled Aurora buildings. But he did say non-profits, which received money from the city, placed immigrants wherever they requested to be placed. He said it’s true that migrants who came through Denver have settled in Aurora and other cities.