November 22, 2024 10:47 AM UTC

"Operation Aurora Is Coming," Says Thrilled Aurora City Councilor

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• by: Colorado Pols

As the Aurora Sentinel’s Cassandra Ballard reports, despite half-hearted attempts by Aurora’s Republican Mayor Mike Coffman to combat rampant misinformation about the city spread in large part by Donald Trump in stump speeches throughout the country including just inside the boundaries of Aurora itself, a member of the GOP-controlled Aurora City Council, Danielle Jurinsky, who fully embraced the false narrative that the city has been “taken over” by migrant gangs, is now celebrating the imminent “Operation Aurora” to deport the largest number of persons from the country in history–and warning the Aurora Police Department and other agencies with the effrontery to dispute the party line to get ready to cooperate when Trump’s federal deportation force arrives:

The Aurora City Council member who promoted the disputed Venezuelan gang narrative that drew Donald Trump to Aurora in October told city officials the president-elect’s administration has contacted her about implementing mass deportations.

“Operation Aurora is coming,” Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky said during the Nov. 14 meeting of the Aurora City Council Public Safety meeting. “On a very serious note, there seems to be a disconnect with the incoming administration and the City of Aurora. So I hope that we are taking this seriously.”

Jurinsky promoted what police and city officials have repeatedly said was a false-narrative on local and then national right-wing radio and TV programs about Aurora apartments and parts of the city being overrun with Venezuelan gang members.

Police have repeatedly said Jurinsky’s claims are inaccurate, and that no Aurora apartment buildings, neighborhoods or streets are “overrun” by Venezuelan or any gangs. Jurinsky’s critics called the allegations anti-immigrant rhetoric. [Pols emphasis]

Jurinsky may not have the facts on her side, but what she does have is a newly-elected President who was never at any point interested in the facts, whether in Aurora where migrant gangs have not overrun the city, or in Springfield, Ohio where the legal Haitian immigrant population is not eating the dogs and cats. Branding Trump’s mass deportation promise as “Operation Aurora” is nothing less than a frontal assault on attempts to correct the record, attempts that there is no doubt reached the campaign’s ears and were summarily disregarded.

In short, it doesn’t matter that Aurora has not actually been “overrun” and therefore is not in need of armed occupation by federal troops.  The occupation of Aurora by federal troops is what Danielle Jurinsky wants, no matter what misery and injustice results. Federal officers who arrive in Aurora under the pretense that the city has been “overrun” are not going to find that to be the case, but there will be many thousands of immigrants who statistically commit far fewer crimes than the native-born readily available to be persecuted. The mismatch between the violent false expectations and reality increases the chances of an indefensibly tragic outcome.

Whichever side you are on, Jurinsky is right that the consequences will very soon no longer be hypothetical.