‘An incredible exaggeration’: Trump heads to Colorado town where he stoked antiimmigrant rumors
Oct 11, 2024
The ex-president ignited a firestorm in Aurora by amplifying a local conspiracy about Venezuelan immigrants in his debate with HarrisWhen crossing the state line from Wyoming into Colorado, drivers have recently been confronted with a giant billboard that reads: “Venezuela ahead, BE PREPARED!”The xenophobic political ad – funded by Donald Trump’s largest individual campaign donor – is, in part, a reaction to the more than 40,000 migrants who’ve arrived in the Denver metro area over the last two years, many of them Venezuelan families fleeing poverty and violence. Continue reading...