An Aurora, Colorado apartment complex became the latest flashpoint in America’s escalating illegal immigration crisis as nine suspected members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang were caught on doorbell video terrorizing residents in a shocking armed encounter. The June 9 incident, confirmed by Aurora police, has been described as “very reminiscent” of the type of coordinated violence previously seen from this transnational criminal group.

The video shows the group, some wielding guns, aggressively approaching an apartment unit near 6th Avenue and Potomac Street. They knock repeatedly, clearly trying to provoke or intimidate the occupants. Fortunately, the residents—who had only just moved in two days earlier and were also Venezuelan—did not open the door.

“I shudder to think what might have happened to them,” said Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlain in a press conference on Tuesday. “Unfortunately, that is what we have seen at that apartment complex, and it’s what we’ve been dealing with.”

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According to Chamberlain, the apartment complex has become a frequent site of crime and gang activity. Since August 2024, Aurora police have received 44 radio calls for service there, including reports of gunfire, kidnapping, and assault—events now believed to be linked to TdA activity.

This most recent incident led to swift police action. Two suspects seen in the doorbell footage were arrested on June 11 and 12. Four additional individuals with known ties to previous criminal activity were also detained. Authorities are continuing to search for the remaining suspects caught on video.

Doorbell footage from the attack, released by the department, shows masked individuals pointing firearms at the door and moving with tactical coordination. The footage has since gone viral, reinforcing growing public concern over violent foreign gangs operating with impunity in American communities.

Tren de Aragua, widely referred to as the most dangerous gang to emerge from Venezuela, was designated a global terrorist organization by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) earlier this year. The group has been blamed for a wave of violent crimes across multiple U.S. cities and has drawn comparisons to MS-13 in both brutality and reach.

Aurora was previously thrust into the spotlight last summer when video surfaced showing heavily armed TdA members smashing through apartment doors with what police described as “military-grade equipment.” That footage spurred both national outrage and questions about how such individuals had managed to enter and remain in the country.

Earlier this year, nine suspected TdA gang members were charged in a violent home invasion in the same city that included kidnapping and armed robbery.

Chief Chamberlain emphasized that his department is working proactively. “I want everyone to understand and to know that we are ahead of this,” he said. “This isn’t something that we’re reacting to. This is something that we are proactively addressing with everything that we can possibly do.”

The incident has reignited debates over border security and the need to crack down on transnational gangs entering through U.S. immigration loopholes. Critics of the Biden-era immigration policies—which many argue allowed TdA and other violent criminal networks to spread—are now demanding stronger enforcement and sweeping deportations.

The Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security has been under pressure to explain how such a dangerous gang became so embedded in major U.S. cities. Meanwhile, ICE continues its efforts to locate and deport known TdA members, a task complicated by sanctuary city policies and delays in asylum adjudication.

Aurora, Colorado—home to nearly 400,000 residents—is the third-largest city in the state and has now become a focal point in the national conversation about lawlessness and migrant crime. If law enforcement and federal agencies fail to act swiftly, many fear this latest video may be just the beginning of a new wave of organized foreign gang violence on U.S. streets.