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00:16:09.240I'm sure there are several news articles that have this footage available, and you can watch
00:16:13.940on security cameras these men with these huge guns breaking into these poor apartment complexes.
00:16:19.740The brutal Venezuelan gang, Trin de Aragua, was drawn to Denver Sanctuary City and has been able to set up shop in the suburb of Aurora thanks to the policies of the Democrats that run the city and the surrounding areas.
00:16:39.620And of course, we know that Kamala Harris, who is running for president, is a big fan of the kind of policies that unfortunately have decimated a place like Denver, Colorado.
00:16:51.540And we'll get into the details of that in just a second.
00:16:54.260But first, let's back up a little bit.
00:16:56.380Let's talk about how this came to be, how Denver became a sanctuary city.
00:17:02.160First, a sanctuary city is a city that says we are not going to, we're not going to work.
00:17:09.040We're not going to comply with ICE, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
00:17:14.160And if there is, for example, an illegal alien that gets caught stealing something and they go to jail and ICE says,
00:17:22.980hey, detain them, we're going to pick them up and we're going to process them ourselves.
00:17:27.600A sanctuary city might just release them and say, you know what, we're going to ignore your request and we're going to do what we want to do.
00:17:36.980That is basically, there are some more details of that, but that's basically what it means to be a sanctuary city.
00:17:43.260Denver Mayor Michael Hancock signed an ordinance into law in 2017, codifying the city's resistance to work with federal immigration enforcement,
00:17:51.380along with establishing a donor funded legal defense and coordinated assistance fund for immigrants facing deportation shortly after Donald Trump was elected president.
00:18:00.320So this started out mostly as a virtue signal, although there are several cities that started doing this when Obama was president.
00:18:10.200I think it was back in 2013 that they became a sanctuary city and the deleterious effects of that policy really came to light when a young woman by the name of Kate Steinle was murdered by an illegal alien who had a history of violent crime.
00:18:29.260And yet, because he lived in the sanctuary city of San Francisco, he was continuously released.
00:18:37.620And of course, in his latest release, he was able to steal a gun and murder a young woman in the prime of her life.
00:18:47.160That is the effect of a sanctuary city.
00:18:53.760This is empathy that is used as a tool of emotional manipulation to get you to believe that the only compassionate side of an issue is the progressive side.
00:19:09.160And so what you typically hear in stories about illegal immigration is the woman who fled El Salvador with her children for a better life.
00:19:19.180And she has lived here for the past 15 years, and she has been able to work and be a productive citizen.
00:19:27.200This is basically the only home that her children have ever known.
00:19:30.740And then you hear that she is terrified by the specter of a Donald Trump presidency because she might face deportation.
00:19:39.980Your heart goes out to her as a woman, as a mother, as someone who is fleeing violence.
00:19:45.480And then what they typically do, and by they I mean the media, NPR, the Washington Post, the New York Times, who is telling you this very emotional, empathy-driven story, is they say, you know, this is why you shouldn't vote for Donald Trump.
00:20:01.600This is why the border wall is racist.
00:20:03.860This is why we should be against deportation.
00:20:06.240This is why we should make so-called undocumented people documented.
00:20:11.680This is basically why we should decriminalize border crossings altogether because of this young woman named Maria who simply was coming here for a better life and to seek refuge for her children.
00:20:24.840And, of course, they leave out some vital information that there is already a legal process by which you can claim asylum.
00:20:32.520There is a legal definition to being a refugee.
00:20:36.660If you are truly fleeing violence, then you need to seek asylum in the closest country, the closest and safest country that you can.
00:20:46.700And also, that is one anecdote of thousands of other anecdotes of people who come here for bad reasons, who come here and commit crimes that are entirely preventable by simply enforcing border law.
00:21:04.840Every single crime, every single crime, every single crime committed by an illegal alien is preventable.
00:21:13.360Unlike many of the crimes committed by citizens, every crime committed by an illegal alien is preventable by enforcing common sense immigration and border law.
00:21:25.100For every anecdote of a young mother fleeing El Salvador and fleeing violence to take refuge in America with her children, there are three or more anecdotes of an illegal alien coming here and murdering someone or raping someone or killing someone as a drunk driver.
00:21:48.960So we can compete with an illegal alien.
00:22:21.420And that is the truth that we have to stick to at the end of the day.
00:22:25.240And so when we look at a place like Aurora that is being completely taken over by this gang, realize that this is a policy decision.
00:22:32.260This is not something that sprung up on us.
00:22:34.240This is not something that is surprising.
00:22:35.960This is the result of evil and chaotic policies done in the name, passed in the name, voted for in the name of toxic empathy and Christians as people who love our neighbors, right?
00:22:48.760Not just who feel empathy for the supposed victim that is hoisted up by the media, but people who actually feel love.
00:22:57.180So seek the best interest of those around us.
00:23:01.080We should vote for policies not based on emotional manipulation and toxic empathy.
00:23:05.520We should base our policy decisions on what is good and right and true, what leads to order, what leads to peace.
00:23:16.340And open borders leads to lawlessness.
00:23:21.000It leads to the poorest among us being economically disenfranchised and being vulnerable to violence.
00:23:30.780That's what all forms of lawlessness, whether it's social justice policies when it comes to how we deal with citizens who break the law, or when it comes to social justice soft on crime policies when it comes to non-citizens who break the law.
00:23:45.640That is the backdrop of everything that is going on right now in Denver.
00:23:50.440This is Toxic Empathy Run Amok, which is exactly why I wrote my book, and that's exactly why I pushed for it to come out before the election on October 15th.
00:24:00.840My chapter on illegal immigration, because we go through abortion, gender, marriage, immigration, social justice, actually my chapter on immigration, it surprised me the most because it was my favorite to write, because I actually ended up, as I was writing it, being the most passionate.
00:24:19.140Believe it or not, not that this is more important to me than abortion, because it's not, but just realizing that when I say social justice kills, when I say soft on crime policies kill, when I say progressivism kills, illegal immigration and the violence it has brought and the economic disenfranchisement it has resulted in is such a perfect example of the manifestation of toxic empathy.
00:24:48.140So I know I kind of went on a tangent there.
00:25:18.120In order to pass an ordinance like this.
00:25:20.120In other words, the ordinance resulted in less federal funding, millions of dollars at this point from 2018 to present, for Denver to deal with the cost of overseeing illegals who committed crimes, because it required asking about immigration status.
00:25:40.480Because, of course, we hear from the left, oh, no, crime is down.
00:25:47.240And oh, by the way, citizens commit more crimes than illegal.
00:25:51.300So apparently, because of that, we should just be OK with adding unnecessary and preventable crime to the crimes already being committed by citizens.
00:25:59.660And they just want to gaslight us into believing that everything is totally fine.
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00:27:44.060So you'll remember that the Harris Biden administration undid all of Trump's immigration policies, opened the southern border.
00:27:58.820You'll remember the back and forth that Greg Abbott and Joe Biden have had as Greg Abbott has tried desperately to secure the border of Texas and Mexico through barbed wire, through buoys.
00:28:15.520And the federal government literally came in and removed them, removed the barriers that Texas put in place to protect its own people, to protect the country.
00:28:28.220And of course, that is also under the direction of Kamali Harris, who was deemed the border czar.
00:28:33.500And now we see Denver is dealing with that dereliction of duty by Harris, by Biden, and also dealing with its own policies, the consequences of its own policies that it put in place in 2017.
00:28:50.400Denver now leads the nation in new migrant arrivals per capita, with more than 40,000 arriving from the southern border since December 2022.
00:29:00.160So that's where we see the combination of their 2017 ordinance and Biden's presidency.
00:29:06.380The city, of course, has been over backwards to provide aid, even slashing emergency services to help foot the cost.
00:29:12.720So far, estimated at over $68 million and counting.
00:29:18.020In recent months, the Colorado governor, Democrat, of course, signed legislation to support their new lives in the state by making it easier for them to obtain driver's licenses,
00:29:27.080attend school, and obtain taxpayer-funded resources.
00:29:30.020Like, you see what's happening, right?
00:29:32.660Like, you see that they want these people to become voters.
00:29:36.700These people who act like they're the sentinels of democracy.
00:29:41.300They are importing their voters to disenfranchise and take away the power of your vote, you as a tax-paying citizen.
00:29:52.040When the influx of migrants became too much, Colorado Governor Jared Polis made the decision to start busing them to New York City in 2023 through a program that has since ended.
00:30:05.380So instead of just changing his lodge, instead of changing the policies, he decided that he was going to ship them to another sanctuary city, New York City.
00:30:16.380Still, many states, some moved to nearby Aurora, which has a population of 390,000, where apartments are now under gang control.
00:30:24.980This gang is called Trin de Aragua, and just a little background about them.
00:30:30.220They are a prison gang hailing from the Aragua region of Venezuela.
00:30:35.380It's been sending its members across the U.S.-Mexico border for years while also recruiting within the U.S. among migrant communities.
00:30:41.760Homeland Security sources have confirmed that the gang is tied to several violent crimes in sanctuary cities.
00:31:19.860Athens, another sanctuary-type city in the state of Georgia.
00:31:24.960Of course he was there, and she was going on a run on a Sunday morning, minding her business.
00:31:30.220When this man started following her, this Venezuelan illegal, and brutally bashed her head in and murdered her.
00:31:39.960A young woman, again, in the prime of her life.
00:31:42.720Same thing happened to Molly Tibbetts.
00:31:45.240I mean, how many times does this have to happen to realize we absolutely need mass deportations and to stop every single illegal entrance into our country?
00:31:56.380Don't give me the hogwash that, well, citizens murder too.
00:32:09.800Just because citizens murder doesn't mean that we need to import more murderers.
00:32:15.400And I know, I understand that not everyone who comes here illegally is going to commit another crime besides the crime of crossing the border illegally.
00:32:23.200I understand that not every one of them is going to be a murderer or a rapist.
00:33:32.360And so if this is a country that rests on the will of the people, I'm not sure even on the Democrat side how many people would say that this is what we want.
00:33:42.500We want for apartment complexes in the suburbs of Denver to be taken over by a violent Venezuelan gang.
00:33:50.840However, you do need to know that when you vote Democrat, that's exactly what you're voting for.
00:34:04.840I cannot affirm you, Christian, when you say that, well, politics don't matter because Jesus is coming back.
00:34:11.280Or I don't want to get involved in politics.
00:34:13.820I don't want to care what's going on in the culture war.
00:34:16.840Look, the lives of the people that this gang is tormenting, they matter.
00:34:21.100And they are here in this country in which God has providentially placed you, and the policies that are going into place really affect their lives.
00:34:31.140It's not a Christian attitude to say, well, that doesn't affect me, so I don't care.
00:34:35.600You're not obligated to care about everything and everyone, everywhere.
00:34:39.320But we are called to care about our communities, and we are called to care about the policies put into place that affects our communities, especially the most vulnerable members of our communities.
00:34:51.240And too many, especially Christian women, are duped by toxic empathy into believing that voting for progressive policies like a sanctuary city will lead to the health and fruition of the most vulnerable.
00:35:04.020In July, the Biden administration designated Trin de Aragua as a transnational criminal organization, offering a reward of $12 million for the arrest of its leaders.
00:35:16.200So even the Biden administration, like while they're letting people in, they're also saying, yeah, this is a terrorist group.
00:35:22.020The leadership also recently gave a green light for its members to shoot and attack cops across the U.S., according to a memo from the Homeland Security Investigations Office in Chicago.
00:35:31.180So what's happening in Aurora right now?
00:35:34.020The gang has seized multiple apartment complexes and is committing violent, heinous crimes in Aurora.
00:35:38.960This has happened despite Aurora passing a resolution in February that it does not share Denver's position on immigration and that it will not provide resources to illegal immigrants brought into the community from neighboring cities.
00:35:50.160So there's some sanity there, but it might be a little bit too late.
00:35:54.240The surrounding areas are now having to deal with Denver's progressive policies.
00:35:58.160Denver's illegal immigration and now resulting gang violence has become Aurora's problem.
00:36:05.620The gang's shock collar for the region was identified as I don't even know.
00:36:14.980When this person crossed the southern border in 2022 into Texas, he was vetted by federal border authorities who didn't see anything concerning about his past.
00:36:23.020And then released Homeland Security sources said it's concerning enough that they're crossing the border illegally.
00:36:31.700That's enough to turn them right back around.
00:36:35.000And we should be having zero, zero, zero, zero military aged men even make it close to our border.
00:36:43.160And yet we do not just from South America and Mexico, but from all over the world.
00:36:49.200And then in November 2023, this person alongside fellow gang members brutally beat a man in an apartment complex allegedly run by the group.
00:36:57.280He was eventually arrested in March 2024 and hit with several felony assault charges, but was bailed out of custody and failed to show up for his court date thereafter.
00:37:13.260It should have been 50 billion dollars.
00:37:16.920He was caught again in July for a shooting at the same complex where two men were wounded.
00:37:22.500He was quickly arrested and handed over to ICE.
00:37:25.340An immigration judge ordered his deportation last week, but because he is from Venezuela, a country that doesn't accept deportations from the U.S., he is likely to stay here.
00:37:33.860Okay, so the Venezuela can just say, no, we're not taking our citizen back.
00:37:38.540Like, in America, apparently the greatest and most powerful country in the world is like, hurdy-durder.
00:38:08.500Like, we have a bunch of Soros-funded progressive judges and DAs and governors and mayors who are paid to bring America into disorder and decay and disarray.
00:39:12.120It is God's justice for a sentence to be carried out proportionate to the crime that's committed, but also speedily.
00:39:22.500But here in the United States, we so often don't do that in the name of empathy, in the name of tolerance, in the name of social justice.
00:39:31.620And the very people that we say that we care about end up getting hurt.
00:39:37.880Governor Jared Polis, he's acting like this didn't really happen.
00:39:41.880He says it's basically a figment of people's imagination.
00:39:45.480His press office offered a statement last Wednesday.
00:39:49.940The governor has already let the mayor know that the state is ready to support the local police department with assistance from state troopers and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation if needed.
00:39:58.360But according to police intelligence, this purported invasion is largely a feature of this councilwoman's, Danielle Jerinsky, who is sounding the alarm about this.
00:40:08.200It's largely a figment of her imagination.
00:40:11.180Denver Mayor Mike Johnson says, actually, you know, this is not really happening.
00:40:22.060Any population will have very small subsets of folks that don't follow the rules, and we hold those folks accountable.
00:40:26.860We actually know, historically, it's always true that we have lower levels of crime around migrants than we do among our general population.
00:40:32.860So that is, there's a risk of misperceptions about this population as more dangerous, causing more trouble.
00:40:40.260We have overt and covert operations going every day to intervene, and where we know there are risks, we're going to be aggressive about making arrests, about pressing charges, and if needing, deporting folks.
00:40:49.420But I think the much bigger risk is that you'll have a perception that all of the newcomers in the city are dangerous and nothing could be farther from the truth.