A major immigration raid happened today in a notorious hotbed of migrant crime, and the Trump-Deranged media mostly looked the other way. It is not difficult to understand why, as the media chose to mostly ignore this crime wave when it was shown to be inconvenient to the electoral prospects of Joe Biden and then Kamala Harris.
Of the major three broadcast network newscasts, ABC World News Tonight was the only one to report on the raids, and then very lightly:
ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
2/5/25
6:45 PM
DAVID MUIR: Tonight, dramatic video showing sweeping immigration raids in the Denver area. Federal agents swarming apartment buildings before sunrise this morning. Heavily armed officers seen knocking on doors, stopping cars and taking several people into custody. Authorities saying they were targeting more than 100 members of a violent Venezuelan gang in nearby Aurora. Residents were asked about documentation and ID. Tonight, ICE now reporting more than 8700 people have been arrested nationwide since the raids began last week.
There’s a bit of geographical sleight-of-hand going on in this brief. Muir buried the lede, which is that the raids were in Aurora, Colorado. Instead, he initially went with “Denver area”. Aurora is more notorious to viewers than Denver, because of the scope of Tren de Aragua’s (TdA) known activities in Aurora.
Aurora, is of course, where TdA took over several apartment complexes, which was the basis of then-Senator JD Vance’s seminal “Do you even hear yourself” moment with ABC’s Martha Raddatz. Muir’s brief seems built on the assumption that people have forgotten about that moment.
For more robust reporting, look to The New York Post:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers hit multiple apartment complexes across Aurora, Colorado in raids targeting 100 Tren de Aragua gang members on Wednesday — just five months after the Democratic governor dismissed reporting by The Post that the violent migrant gang had taken hold in the Denver suburb.
ICE’s Denver branch said officers made arrests alongside federal agents from numerous other agencies including the DEA, FBI, US Marshals and Customs and Border Patrol.
Aurora, Colorado, you say? Has anything of note recently happened in Aurora?
Some agents were also reportedly seen at the Edge of Lowry and Cedar Run apartment complexes, the outlet reported.
The Edge, which is located in Aurora, had become overrun by Tren de Aragua gangbangers from Venezuela, who took over the building after it fell into disrepair.
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The Edge was the site of a viral video showing gun-toting gangbangers forcing their way into units before taking part in a fatal shooting.
TdA gangbangers also conducted a violent kidnapping at the complex, where they tortured a couple and burglarized their apartment for hours in December.
The vast majority of immigration stories to come out of the resistance media have to do with day laborers and farm workers potentially being separated from their families. The roundup of gangbangers political leaders say “didn’t exist” is politically devastating, not just to the politicians that shield these illegal migrants but to the media outlets that continue to advocate for their stay.
As paltry as ABC’s brief was, it was the only network newscast that covered the arrests. The same could not be said for NBC and CBS, choosing to look the other way as yet another former conspiracy theory turns out to be true.
