The Hispanics say that the policies of the Democratic sanctuary endanger their families: “ We do not want these people ”

EXCLUSIVE: Hispanics living in democratic jurisdictions are frustrated by the policies of the sanctuary, which, according to them, allow illegal criminals to tackle their communities, according to a member of the Latin Congress of Colorado.

While some Democrats and media are trying to portray Hispanics as universally opposed to President Donald Trump’s repression against illegal immigration, representative Gabe Evans, R-Colo., Said reality in his district was very different.

Colorado and Denver have sanctuary policies that limit the local capacity of the application of laws to cooperate with ice and other federal immigration application agencies. Evans said it had led to a marked increase in crime and violence in his community.

Earlier this year, the DEA administrator at the time, Derek Maltz, said that the sanctuary policies had allowed Colorado to become “zero terrestrial for some of the most violent criminals in America”, including the management of Tren de Aragua.

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Left: an infiltrated agent of the FBI communicates during a federal gang descent to Cedar Run apartments in Denver on February 5, 2025 – part of a targeting repression of violent criminal groups. Right: the representative Gabe Evans, R-Colo., A former police officer and the only Latin member of the Colorado Congress Delegation, denounces the sanctuar policies which, according to him, feed violence in Hispanic communities. (Shane Anthony for Fox News and RJ Sangosti / Medianews Group / The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Tren de Aragua – also known by its acronym “ADD” – is a violent Venezuelan criminal group which has been linked to some of the most in view of America in recent years, including the murder of the nursing student Laken Riley and the capture of an apartments building in Aurora, Colorado.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Evans, a young Latino and former police officer who represents a district just north of Denver, also confirmed that sanctuary policies in his district are wreaking havoc on Hispanic life and businesses.

“In my district, we had one of the first major raids that we saw of the new administration, where more than 40 members of Gangs of Tren de Aragua and their affiliates were all apprehended by the DEA working in collaboration with other agencies,” he said. “We are talking about firearms and drugs and trafficking in human beings and children’s abuse … These are the people who were among our society under the policies of the state of the sanctuary in Colorado.”

As the only Latin member of the Colorado delegation at the Congress, Evans said that the sanctuary policies were personal.

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The alleged members of the gangs of Tren of Aragua try to storm an apartment in Aurora, Colorado – part of a wider model of criminal control where the group extorted residents for “protection” and rent, according to the police. (Edward Romero)

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

“I have conversations with my owners of local Hispanic companies with people who are not only major pillars of the Hispanic community, but they are also husbands and wives and mothers and dads. And they do not want Tren of Aragua in their communities. They do not want local violence, Hispanic companies, to be in burglary or to have violence.”

Evans shared that a constituent who has a Hispanic grocery store told him that he regularly lost thousands of dollars a day during the Biden administration due to an illegal immigrant crime.

“He said that in previous years under the Biden administration were horrible because he would have illegal immigrants who would come to his store on a routine basis – we are talking about daily or every week – and flying thousands of dollars,” he said. “But because of the policies of the state of the sanctuary and because the previous administration had no desire to enforce the law, there was nothing that he could do it.”

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Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden showed side by side. The Latin voters of the courts of the sanctuary managed by the Democrats repel a Hispanic Republican, noting crime problems in the context of the Biden administration’s approach in the application of immigration. (Win McNamee / Pool via Reuters, Getty Images)

“There was nothing that the state or application of local laws could do because they were prohibited by these laws on the sanctuary and that the Federals were not interested. He therefore looked at thousands of dollars in his store on a weekly basis, sometimes daily.

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“We do not want drug traffickers and cartels and criminals and gangbangers in our community,” he continued. “Thus, this emphasis put on the reduction of these criminal elements which not only are illegally present in the United States but which commit other crimes have been expected for a long time, and there is a lot of support for this in the Hispanic community.”

Fox News Digital contacted the office of the mayor of Denver, Mike Johnston, but did not receive an answer at the time of publication.