A woman who was terrorized out of her Aurora, CO apartment by the vicious Tren de Aragua gang has told ABC News to get a reality check after one of its hosts minimized the damage done in an interview with Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH).
“I feel like it’s a slap in the face,” Cindy Romero told Fox News Digital. “How many gangs is OK to have in Aurora? How many properties is OK to take over? How many people, who are citizens paying their bills, is it OK to displace?”
She and her husband Edward left their apartment after filming a shootout between members of the violent Venezuelan gang. Cindy Romero’s comments came after Vance and ABC News host Martha Raddatz strongly disagreed during a Sunday interview about the serious impact of Venezuelan gangs in Aurora, the Daily Mail noted.
Raddatz interrupted Vance over what she said were a “handful of problems” in Aurora and that gangs had not “taken over” apartment complexes and “invaded and conquered” the community. “I’m going to stop you because I know exactly what happened,” Raddatz told Vance. “I’m going to stop you. ‘The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes’ and the mayor said, ‘Our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns.’ A handful of problems.”
Vance responded, “Martha, do you hear yourself? Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris’ open border?”
Romero appeared on stage with former President Donald Trump who was in Aurora on Friday for a rally. He eviscerated the Biden-Harris administration’s lax border policies and proposed using various federal agencies to “hunt down, arrest and deport every last illegal alien gang member until there is not a single one left in this country.”
In her brief speech to the crowd, Romero recounted how she and her husband had recorded a group of armed men shoving their way into a nearby house, after which a shootout occurred. She said police largely ignore her 911 calls.
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