The mayors of Aurora and Denver are in a fascinating public feud over the Sanctuary City’s dumping of illegal migrants on its neighbor without warning that welfare and emergency services might be warranted.
And in this case, both certainly have been in great demand.
Especially when things got out of control at the four Aurora apartment complexes that served as Denver’s dumping ground, that continues to make national news as a stomping ground for the dangerous Tren de Aragua gang from Venezuela.
Aurora Mayor Coffman took the dispute public in a newspaper opinion article that broke just as Denver Mayor Johnston was preparing his report card on the city Monday.
Long story short, Coffman gave Denver an F.
Here’s where it gets hilarious; Johnston is trying to wash Denver’s hands of all responsibility claiming they had nothing to do with immigrant placement because the city outsourced their work to migrant advocacy groups.
Coffman obtained a copy of the contract between Denver and the advocacy groups that revealed the groups were permitted to shuffle migrants to other cities without notifying them. However, the agencies were required to report back to Denver where they had moved some of the tens of thousands of migrants from Biden’s open borders.
From Coffman’s opinion piece in the Colorado Springs Gazette:
“Aurora has suffered from a national embarrassment that has harmed the image of our city in a way that could have lasting economic consequences. As the Mayor of Aurora, I’m asking that Mayor Mike Johnston be transparent and tell the truth about what he did.”
And yet Johnston is still hiding behind Denver’s middlemen, and women, who were paid taxpayer dollars to secretly house the migrants that Sanctuary City claimed to have so openly welcomed.
And Denver refuses to share that information with Aurora now claiming it contains personal information of the migrants, such as their names.
We are to believe that it’s okay for the City of Denver to have this information, the advocacy groups that placed them, and the apartment leasing companies, but not the City of Aurora?
Coffman is right to be miffed that the four troubled apartment complexes in his town were used as a secret dumping ground for migrants that have caused residents there so much fear and heartache.
And shame on Johnston for continuing to play word games with the fact his city used taxpayer money to secretly dump migrants in cities across Colorado without notification that taxpayer services would be required to support that population.
The City of Denver needs to make that information available to all cities were migrant dumping has taken place over the last two years.