AURORA | 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.
Jurinsky’s Fox News TV appearances caught the attention of then-presidential nominee Trump. He and running mate JD Vance exaggerated the claims further, insisting all of Aurora was overrun by Venezuelan gangs.
Police say three Aurora apartments were neglected by owners and that a small number of people associated with Venezuelan and other gangs were criminally active in those apartment complexes. City and court records show criminal and public safety problems at the apartments go back years, long before a large influx of Venezuelan immigrants to the metro area.
Trump eventually called for a federal “Operation Aurora” to root out and deport undocumented immigrants from the city, and across the nation, during a campaign rally Oct. 11, “starting right here in Aurora.”
Since his election, state and local leaders have been pressed by the media about how they will react to a federal mass deportation plan. The incoming Trump administration has named leaders of the project but publicly released no details about when or how it would be implemented.
At the end of the Aurora committee meeting, Jurinsky said the forming Trump Administration wants contact with Aurora.
Jurinsky also suggested having Aurora Police Sgt. Marc Sears appointed as a police department leader for Operation Aurora. Sears leads one of two Aurora police unions, the Fraternal Order of Police. Jurinsky said she was confident in his ability to spearhead the initiative.
CLICK HERE FOR THE MEETING RECORDING
It’s unclear what role local police would play in mass deportations. Aurora police Chief Todd Chamberlain has said using police to enforce federal immigration law would put the community at risk. In Colorado, police are by law precluded from enforcing immigration law and participating with federal immigration officials in arrests.
She asked city administrators whom she should refer Trump Administration officials to.
“I just want to know who I should coordinate with, because there seems to be a really big disconnect with the incoming administration and city leaders, and I know that some of that is personal,” she said. “If someone can tell me, who should I direct thee phone calls.”
City Attorney Pete Schulte said queries should come to him and City Manager Jason Batchelor.
Aurora is a council-manager form of government. City lawmakers are precluded from participating in day-to-day city operations or directing city business outside of city council meetings.
Jurinsky came under fire from some fellow city lawmakers three years ago when her appearances on right-wing talk radio stations and internal police conversations she held with police officials and rank-and-file members led to a censure vote on the city council. The Aurora Sentinel is embroiled in a lawsuit now before the Colorado Supreme Court in an effort to retrieve recordings of a close city council meeting, ending censure the censure proceedings and leading to a $16,000 payment to Jurinsky for legal fees.
Regarding Jurinsky’s interaction with the incoming Trump administration, city manager officials said Thursday they were aware only of what Jurinsky made public last week.
“We, at the city, are only aware of what was said toward the end of the Public Safety committee meeting the other day,” Ryan Luby, deputy director of communications said in an email. “We do not have any other information or update to provide beyond what was mentioned.”
Two days after the Nov. 15 committee meeting, Jurinsky posted on social media in response to a post by Aurora Democratic Congressperson Jason Crow that he would protect all Aurora and state residents from federal overreach in implementing Operation Aurora.
“Nothing and no one will stand in the way of Operation Aurora commencing in Aurora. Citizens and non citizens have suffered enough. It ends now!” Jurinsky said her post on X.
Officials from the Trump transition team did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
More dystopian trash from Delusional Danielle.
I’ll bet Aurora’s resident MAGA morons have their whitest hoods and most flammable crosses ready to go as soon as they can hide behind the federal brown shirts.
What a fun amalgamation of the shittiest parts of us history we get to revisit and try to survive now…
Eat that L, Phil. Your immigrant gang buddies are getting yeeted and there isn’t a thing you can do about it. But go on and keep invoking the old commie boogeymen, malbushim.
President Trump’s appointees have repeatedly stated they will focus on convicted criminals and people who have gone through the asylum process and have been ordered to leave the USA. This involves well over a million people and will take years.
I think about my Great Grandparents at times like this. They came to Cedar Rapids, Iowa from Czechoslovakia, which at one time was 80% Czech. They spoke Czech at home and worked hard at construction and eventually on the Cedar Rapids Fire Department. We had Sunday meals at their humble home and lots of love. Why are we so hateful now to our immigrants now? They commit crimes at a lower rate than our citizens and they are more likely to open a small business than natives. Small businesses create more than 50% of US jobs, so the infusion of immigrants is positive, not negative. Trump has told lie after lie about immigrants. He uses outlier stories as if they are the rule instead of the exception. I never voted for Trump because I don’t believe he has the intelligence or the principles necessary for the job. These next 4 years will embarrass our country in ways we can’t see yet!
Did your great grandparents rob, steal, and commit violent crimes in their community? I think we all know the answer.
Ask the native Americans about robbing, stealing, and committing violent crimes against their people from illegal immigration from Western Europe!! I think we all know the answer! Unless you’re native American, we’re all illegal immigrants!
100+ years ago, the WASP’s running our country finally got their wish to close the borders from the millions of immigrants coming over from eastern and southern Europe. It all started with the immigration of Irish Catholics fleeing the potato famine, and continued as eastern and southern Europeans began to enter the country. The WASPs feared the country was going to be taken over by Jews, Catholics, Italians, Spaniards, Poles, Greeks (and I can go on and on) who tended to have large families. It didn’t take a rocket scientist to do the math and realize the WASPs were going to be out numbered within a couple of generations. That was the existential threat the WASPs couldn’t let become a reality. 100 years later, we’re facing the same rhetoric about immigration threatening our society. Yes, we need to clamp down on illegal immigration, but it’s not the cause of the crime our country is battling.
If you have an ounce of literacy, I suggest you pick up Daniel Okrent’s book “The Guarded Gate….”
Yes, we know, your side doesn’t actually believe in national borders (unless it needs to protect its money-laundering interests in eastern Europe).
This is so laughable. Why is she focusing on “helping” someone from Guatemala? Isn’t she supposed to represent what the citizens of Aurora want? Well, here’s a fun fact. The majority of the citizens in Aurora don’t want anything to do with you, Trump or your obsession with deporting immigrants. Another fun fact. 80% of undocumented immigrants in this country have been here at least 10 years. They have families and employment and they are not criminals. They contribute to our economy and the agricultural, construction and hospitality industries will not survive without them because no Americans want those jobs for the wages that immigrants are willing to gladly accept. And one more fact. The Venezuelans that are here are approved to be here on TPS (Temporary Protected Status) and you can’t do one thing about that.
So now that you’ve cut $6 million from the city budget so you and Sundberg selfishly no longer have to match your employees’ occupational tax, you’d better figure out how you’re going to pay all your police buddies when the protests start, because they will. And it better not come from the Aurora taxpayers who want nothing to do with any of this.
“The Venezuelans that are here are approved to be here on TPS (Temporary Protected Status) and you can’t do one thing about that.”
It’s called “temporary” for a reason, and can be removed at any time. And if there’s any judges in Hawaii that try to claim otherwise, it will be summarily ignored this time.
“Methinks the lady doth protest too much,” said William, and all this caring about the people falls hollow, like a sea shell held to your ear. All you can hear is the sound of waves crashing, and her own voice screeching along with the sea gulls.
I’m sick of having my taxpayer dollars and Aurora city services being diverted to those who entered our country illegally. Go back and fix your own country….and stop suckling off the Amercan dollars!
I think that if that is happening, it is only because there is a Federal law that says that people who enter here legally cannot receive work permits for an extended period of time. So their hands are kind of tied. Recent Venezuelans migrants put their whole life savings into getting here and walked through a jungle, knee deep in mud, with everything on their back. I am pretty sure that means they have a work ethic. It is really ignorant and cruel for politicians to use people to get attention, because the stakes for them are horrible.
Really. Just who the h’ll does she think she is? ““Nothing and no one will stand in the way of Operation Aurora commencing in Aurora. Citizens and non citizens have suffered enough. It ends now!” Jurinsky said her post on X.”
maybe she’s looking for a special post from her orange sugar daddy
Anything that hurts your side is automatically good.
In a little less than a year Aurora can elect a new At Large council member
Councilwoman Jurinsky has faced censure for meddling in operational decisions regarding the Aurora Police Department in the past. Some folks learn from past mistakes, apparently Jurinsky is not one of them. The other members of the Aurora City Council must find a way to rein her in (or hope she gets a job in the Dept. of Homeland Security), so that Council can deal with the real issues in the City.
This right here sums it up doesn’t it. Just bitter idiocy til death, that’s a maga. Constant racism, that’s a maga. Hurting people as much as possible, that’s a maga. Your value is the nutrition you will one day return to the soil and nothing more. May God curse you with exactly what you deserve, forever, as you die un mourned, unloved, and unimportant. You are trash.
Shove your struggle session up your colon next to your head, vermin. Absolutely nothing you’re spewing needs to be taken at face value, especially the hilarious invoking of a God you don’t even worship. And the good news is that you’re going to be worm food also, because the only real “liberation” anyone ever gets is the liberation of death, no matter how much they invoke “the right side of history.”
now that’s what I call a proper pox.
Elect someone decent. Who did Trump tell her she was? Lord High Minister of Aurora?