‘Cleaning them out,' mayor says of armed men at Colorado apartment | NewsNation Now

THEIR HELPERS. >> THE NEWS NATION. >> ALL RIGHT. I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME IN NOW THE MAYOR OF THIS CITY WHERE THIS HAPPENED. AURORA, COLORA MAYOR MIKE HOFFMAN. MAYOR, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. IT'S ONE THING FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIVE IN THE CITY OF AURORA TO SEE THE VIDEO. YOU LIVE THERE YOU ARE THE MAYOR THERE. WHAT IS YOUR REACTION TO THE SURVEILLANCE V VIDEO. >> WELL, A IT'S A REAL CONCERN. WE'VE GOT SEVERAL PROPERTIES HAVE OUR CONCENTRATION VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS UNFORTUNATELY THERE'S A CRIMINAL ELEMENT OF IT IS RIGHT ON THAT AS FOLLOWED IN THOSE 3. WHAT WE BELIEVE ARE 3 SEVERAL BUILDINGS. AND SO BUT I WANT TO PUT THIS IN CONTEXT. WE ARE THE 51ST LARGEST CITY IN THE UNITED STATES WITH OVER $4 AND POPULATION AND THIS IS SEVERAL APARTMENT UNITS ALL UNDER THE SAME OWNERSHIP. A STATE OWNER THAT IS ALLOWED THESE PROPERTIES TO RUN DOWN AND WE'VE GOT A CONCERTED LAW ENFORCEMENT EFFORT RIGHT NOW SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT YOU'RE SEEING THIS VIDEO OF ALREADY BEEN APPREHENDED. WE'VE OUR OWN POLICE FORCE COMBINED WITH STATE AND FEDERAL PARTNERS. WORKING ON NOT JUST IN A ROW BUT THROUGHOUT THE DENVER METRO AREA TO TRY GET THESE PEOPLE OFF THE STREET. IT'S A PROMINENT, QUITE FRANKLY. IT STEMS FROM A. WHEN YOU WHEN YOU HAD WAYS OF THE WAVE MIGRANTS COME, YOU KNOW, GOD WAS ON 3RD OF THE POPULATION IS LEFT TO TELL SOCIALIST DICTATORSHIP. AND SO FEEL GOVERNMENT AND SO BUT THERE'S JUST NOT THE VETTING PROCESS OF THE BORDER. AND I DON'T BELIEVE IS WHERE IS. SO WITH THOSE ON THE SHARING OF CRIMINAL RECORDS FOR THE POPULATION. AND YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ALLOWED TO CROSS THE BORDER ILLEGALLY THE ARREST OF A DECLARED POLITICAL THEY'RE GIVEN HUMANITARIAN PAROLE. YOU KNOW, COME TO THE COUNTRY. YEAH. AND SO THAT A IT'S A IT'S A REAL CHALLENGE FOR US. BUT SO APARTMENT COMPLEXES. WE ARE CLEANING THEM CLEANING ABOUT. >> YEAH, YOU KNOW, I DO WANT TO NOTE HERE THAT AURORA POLICE SAY THE GANG ACTIVITY IS ISOLATED. WE KNOW DENVER POLICE ARE DENYING THESE APARTMENT TAKEOVERS AND WE CERTAINLY DO NOT WANT CATEGORIZE ALL MIGRANTS AS BEING CRIMINALS. BUT FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE, YOU KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING IN YOUR TOWN WHEN IT COMES TO THE CRIME, THE CRIMINAL ELEMENT THAT WE'RE SEEING AND WHAT IS BEING DONE TO STOP IT. YOU SEE YOUR CLEANING THEM OUT. WHAT DOES THAT ACTUALLY MEAN. >> ALRIGHT. THAT'S ENFORCEMENT APPROACH. A IT'S A LITTLE CHALLENGING BEBECAUSE A T OF THE PEOPLE ARE THE GROUP. THERE'S A CONSTITUTION OF VENEZUELA MIGRANTS ARE THESE COMPLEXES. THTHERE, TH ARE INTIMIDATED IN TERMS OF STEPPING FORWARD TO. BUT WE'VE GOT AN AGGRESSIVE APPROACH TO THEM OUT. AND WE'RE CERTAINLY DOING THAT. BUT, YOU KNOW, WE CAN AFFORD TO SURRENDER ANY PART OF THE CITY. KNOW, IT'S IT'S IT'S IT'S TOO ISOLATED POCKETS TO, YOU KNOW, IN THE CRIMINAL ELEMENT AND SO. YOU KNOW, AGGRESSIVE ON I THINK THAT. THERE THERE'S SO MUCH CRIMINALITY UNFORTUNATELY VENEZUELA, GIVEN THE FACT THAT THE POLICE FORCES THERE TO DEFEND THEM AGAINST OPPOSITION AS OPPOSED TO THE VETTING. THE PEOPLE AGAINST CRIME AND SO THERE'S JUST A IT'S A IT'S A CERTAIN COMPONENT OF THE CULTURE THAT ELEMENT TO EXIST AND THAT IS FOLLOWED THE MIGRANTS YOU KNOW, WITHOUT COMING YOU KNOW, MAYOR DO. WHERE DO YOU THINK THE BLAME LIES FOR THIS. YOU KNOW WHAT IS NOW A LOCAL PROBLEM. >> DO YOU FEEL THIS DOES STEM FROM A NATIONAL PROBLEM. IS THIS SOMETHING SEPARATE? IS IT A COMBINATION OF MULTIPLE THINGS. >> ABSOLUTELY. IT'S A FEDERAL PROBLEM. I MEAN. OF THE YOU KNOW, AWARDS NOT BECAUSE A JURY CITY HISTORICALLY DIMMER HAS. YOU KNOW, THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, YOU KNOW, TARGETED, I THINK IN TERMS DROPPING OFF MIGRANTS ARE AURORA TOOK THE POSITION THAT THIS IS A FEDERAL PROBLEM THAT THE CITY OF AURORA PROBLEM. WE WILL NOT EXPAND TAX MIGRANTS ARE NOR WILL DON'T BE A CONDUIT FOR FEDERAL DOLLARS ARE WE HEAR THEY ARE. AND I AND SO ON TRYING TO WALK IT BACK HOW DID WE GET HERE? SOMEBODY IS FUNDING THEM. SO I SO, I MEAN, I'M GOING TO OR I'M GOING TO BE GOING TO OUR NONPROFITS AND ARE YOU A CONDUIT FOR FEDERAL DOLLARS THEY'RE IN CONCENTRATING NEWS, MIGRANTS IN THE NEWS SEVERAL OF BUILDINGS COMPLEXES. BUT YEAH, WE INHERITED A PROBABLY DIDN'T IT WOULD. THAT IS OUR DOORS. BUT IS NOW ON WHO WOULD WIN IT. BUT IN OUR SHARE UNIT. AND SO IT'S IT'S REALLY DISAPPOINTING. BUT WHEN YOU HAVE A FEDERAL POLICY THAT WE THAT SOMEBODY COULD WALK ACROSS THE BORDER ILLEGALLY. GET ARRESTED. MAGIC WHERE POLITICAL ASYLUM GETTING HUMANITARIAN PAROLE AND MOVE EAST INTO THE COUNTRY, A THEIR COURT DATE WHICH COULD BE, YOU KNOW, COULD BE A LONG WAYS OUT. YEAH. AND THEN MAKE MATTERS THE PROBLEM ACTUALLY GOES BEYOND THIS GAME PROBLEM BECAUSE DESPERATE PEOPLE DO DESPERATE THINGS