Hispanics say democratic sanctuary policies put their families at risk: “We don’t want these people.”

Exclusive: Hispanics living in democratically operated jurisdictions are frustrated Sanctuary PolicyAccording to Colorado Latino lawmakers, they feel they are allowing illegal criminal foreigners to prey on their communities.

Some Democrats and the media are trying to portray Hispanics as universally opposed to the president. Donald TrumpR-Colo MP Gabe Evans said the crackdown on illegal immigration is very different in his district.

Both Colorados Denver also implements a sanctuary policy that limits the ability of local law enforcement to work with ICE and other federal immigration enforcement agencies. Evans said this led to a significant increase in crime and violence in his community.

Earlier this year, then DEA administrator Derek Maltz said he had allowed the sanctuary policy to become Colorado.Ground Zero Some of America’s most violent criminals, “including the leadership of Tren de Aragua.”

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Aragua train – also known for its acronym “TDA” – is a violent Venezuelan crime group linked to some of America’s most famous crimes in recent years, including the murder of nursing student Laken Riley and the capture of an apartment in Aurora, Colorado.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Evans, a young Latino, and a former police officer representing the district, and a former police officer. North of Denverfurther confirming that his district’s sanctuary policy is wreaking havoc for both Hispanic lives and businesses.

“In my district, I had one of the first major assaults we saw about the new administration, where over 40 Tren de Aragua gang members and their affiliates were all arrested by the DEA in conjunction with other agencies,” he said. “We’re talking about guns, drugs, trafficking and child abuse… these are people who have been blessed in our society under the policies of the sanctuary state of Colorado.”

As the sole Latinx member of Congress’s Colorado delegation, Evans said the sanctuary policy was personal.

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“We don’t want these people in our community,” he said.

“I talk to local Hispanic business owners and people who are not just the main pillars of the Hispanic community, but these are husbands and wives, moms and dads too, and they don’t want Tren Delagua in their community.

Evans shared that one member who owns a Hispanic grocery store said he regularly loses thousands of dollars a day. Biden administration Because of illegal immigration crimes.

“He said the past few years under the Biden administration were scary because illegal immigrants come to his shops on a daily basis — we spoke every day or week, stole thousands of dollars of goods from him,” he explained. “But because of the policies of the sanctuary states, and because the previous administration had zero desire to enforce the law, there was nothing he could do about it.”

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“There was nothing that state or local law enforcement could do because it was prohibited by these sanctuary laws and the federal government had no interest in it, so he sees him walking around his shop every week, sometimes on a regular basis, hurting him as a direct result of these policies.

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“In our community, we don’t want drug dealers, cartels, criminals, gang rape,” he continued. “So this has long been behind, with a focus on cracking down on these criminal elements that are not only illegally present in the US, but also committed other crimes, and there’s a lot of support for it in the Hispanic community.”

Fox News Digital contacted the office of Denver Mayor Mike Johnston for comments, but did not receive a response by the time of publication.