Former President Donald Trump will visit Springfield, Ohio, and Aurora, Colorado, amid a surge in reports of illegal immigrant crime in both cities.
“I’m going to go there in the next two weeks. I’m going to Springfield and I’m going to Aurora,” Trump announced at a Sept. 18 rally in Uniondale, New York.
“You may never see me again, but that’s OK. I gotta do what I gotta do,” he added, alluding to the recent assassination attempts targeting him.
In recent weeks, Springfield has been targeted by fake bomb threats made from a foreign country, which authorities have not publicly identified.
The city has also been at the center of reports of residents’ pet cats being eaten by illegal immigrants.
State officials have dismissed those claims as false. But a police report obtained by government watchdog group Judicial Watch shows that at least one resident called to report her neighbors for allegedly stealing and chopping up her cat. And Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), Trump’s running mate, claims to have received similar complaints from Springfield residents firsthand.
In Aurora, some residents have been victimized by members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which seized control of apartment buildings in the city.
In a 10-page letter to city officials, attorney T. Markus Funk from Perkins Coie—a Denver law firm hired to investigate the matter—described the gang’s takeover of the Whispering Pines apartments using threats of violence and murder going back as far as November 2023.
“The gang, which operates in the open and uses firearms to patrol ‘their property,’ has intimidated staff, stabbed at least one vulnerable immigrant in the apartments because of alleged non-payment, and otherwise terrorized the community,” Funk wrote.
Decrying the situation at his New York rally, Trump criticized the response of Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, who waved off early reports of the problem as fiction.
“They’re taking over large pieces of real estate in Colorado, and you have a Democrat governor who’s petrified of them,” Trump said.
Trump’s announcement that he will visit Springfield and Aurora follows his recent pledge to make them the starting point for “the largest deportation in the history of our country,” an operation he intends to launch if elected to a second presidential term this November.
The former president made the promise at a news conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, on Sept. 13.
He has not yet announced the dates of his upcoming visits.
Allan Stein and Janice Hisle contributed to this report.
My daughter lives in Aurora, which at last may wake up from her Colorado socialist mind-bending indoctrinations and do the right thing and vote Trump. Remember the July 20, 2012, mass shooting that occurred inside a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. Dressed in tactical clothing, 24-year-old James Eagan Holmes set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple injuries. She was in that city at the same time watching the same movie,,,,,in a different theater. Experiencing actual death close to home, close up and personal is a great awakener,,,,or at least it should be for the American people whose shining city of light on a hill has been turned into Batman dark nights by the Demonic democrats, now suffering even more under Trump dementia whose fortunes only rise when Kamala drops to her knees.
LETS hope that others wake up to the rot that is the DNC.
It si the rot that breeds the Riots,,,,not Trump