No sooner had migrant advocates staged a press event insisting gang troubles were non-existent at some Aurora apartments did police confirm four shooting suspects at the Nome Street complex were linked to Tren de Aragua.

Such is the news cycle of political posturing versus reality that we’ve come to expect in the continuing saga of at least three troubled housing complexes in a suburb of Sanctuary City Denver.

The press conference and arrests also coincided with troubling reports by The Denver Gazette and later CBS Denver news revealing chilling details the gang activity dating to late last year that includes assaults, murder threats, extortion, and other crimes as TDA gang members exerted control over Whispering Pines Apartments.

Meanwhile, Kyle Clark is still on social media patrol investigating absurd video claims too stupid for anyone to believe, except well …

One would think far left posers like Clark and his political and advocacy friends would take seriously these charges of migrants being harassed and threatened by gangs.

Yet they do not, because they are afraid it proves their preferred policies of unchecked migration are dangerous.

And if the very migrants who fled socialist Venezuela are still being subjected to the brutality of violent gangs and used as propaganda by socialist advocacy groups in the U.S., well then so be it. Apparently.

The East Colfax Community Collective was behind this week’s press conference that was also attended by Denver’s favorite socialist trouble-maker, Auon’tai “Tay” Anderson.

Pictures of the event showed awkward migrants being used as props hiding behind bushes, turning their faces from the cameras, masked, or ducking behind signs.

Tay Anderson ranted on his X account that migrants were being “forced” to live in inhumane conditions.

No one is forcing them to live anywhere, Anderson. This is the United States of America. We are free to live in whatever city we choose in the dwelling of our choice that is within our budget.

It’s well past time Democrats stop chasing red herrings and exploiting tenants in the affected buildings and start addressing crime whether it’s linked to the recent mass migration or U.S. citizens.