In a startling coincidence, murder rates have plummeted in Denver and Aurora, Colorado, in the first quarter of 2025. 

I'm sure that correlation doesn't equal causation here, but some bigots who clearly hate brown people have made the insane suggestion that deporting gang members who terrorized residents in these cities might have had something to do with it. 

Homicides Drop Sharply in Colorado Cities Following ICE Deportations of Tren de Aragua Gang Members https://t.co/8AouPWDQQQ

— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) May 15, 2025

Surely deporting these future doctors, lawyers, and people destined to cure cancer must have nothing to do with this. Right?

📉 Crime is down in Aurora - and the numbers show it.

Last week, the @MjrCitiesChiefs released its first-quarter report showing declining crime trends across the U.S. and Canada. Aurora is proud to be among the cities leading that progress.

As of May 4, 2025, Aurora has seen:… pic.twitter.com/kORTcXK87i

— Aurora Police Dept (@AuroraPD) May 13, 2025

Critics of Trump's deportation policies insist that this is the result of superb community relations and police work, and part of a longstanding trend. 

Except...murders are down by almost two-thirds compared to the same period last year. In the first quarter of 2024, 28 people were murdered in Denver. This year, 10. 

Car theft?

A REMARKABLE decline

Colorado was the worst state in the country a few years ago. Lots of reasons for this, I suspect, but impossible to ignore.

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— Chris Vanderveen (yep…me) (@chrisvanderveen) May 13, 2025

So, no. This is not a longstanding trend. It is a sudden drop in most crimes, all coinciding with the Trump administration sweeping up members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang and sending them off to El Salvador. 

New data reveals a dramatic drop in homicides across Denver and Aurora, Colorado, following Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) efforts to dismantle the Tren de Aragua gang. The terror group, a violent Venezuelan criminal organization, consists of illegal immigrants blamed for escalating chaos in the region.

According to data from the Major Cities Chiefs Association, reported by KUSA-TV Denver, homicides in Denver declined 58 percent in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the same period last year. Aurora saw a 36 percent decline in homicides during the same timeframe.

Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlin noted an even broader reduction in crime across the board. “The City of Aurora and Aurora PD are actually in a really good spot right now. Our crime numbers are down 22.8% overall,” Chamberlin said.

This marked decrease in violence comes after intensified immigration enforcement under the Trump administration, which had made the Denver metropolitan area a key focus for removals of criminal migrants. ICE has acted swiftly, arresting 538 illegal aliens across multiple cities, including Denver. Shortly thereafter, the agency expanded its efforts in Colorado, zeroing in on members of Tren de Aragua.

Breitbart News reports that despite these federal initiatives, local Democratic leaders resisted cooperation with ICE. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and Colorado Governor Jared Polis were among those who worked to oppose the administration’s actions, which prompted the Trump administration to initiate legal action against Denver and state officials for obstructing federal immigration enforcement.

This drop in homicides and other crimes comes no thanks to local politicians, who fought tooth and nail to ensure that the worst people in the world could remain in their communities. The Pravda Media went insane over Trump's policies, arguing that "only a handful" of apartment complexes were taken over by armed thugs who beat people up and murdered those who wouldn't cooperate with their extortionate tactics. 

NEW: JD Vance torches ABC’s Martha Raddatz after she minimized the illegal immigrant gang takeovers because “only a handful” of apartments complexes have been seized.

Raddatz: “The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes...”

Vance: “Do you hear yourself? Only… pic.twitter.com/TPXdNTD5UH

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 13, 2024

Time and again, we see liberal elites care more about virtue signaling than the lives of ordinary people. The classic example is the skyrocketing murder rate of blacks after the "racial reckoning" in 2020. The Black Lives Matter movement led directly to a massive increase in black men getting murdered, and yet nobody on the left seems to care that the result of "social justice" and "criminal justice reform" is more murdered black men. 

According to the CDC, a black person's risk of dying by homicide was 7x or 8x times the white rate of 2010-14 in 2014 before BLM's rise after Ferguson. But after George Floyd's death in 2020, blacks died by homicide as much as 15x more.

Heckuva job, BLM!https://t.co/rRbwimQQ7R pic.twitter.com/jHLGtv2rNR

— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) May 29, 2022

It's the same phenomenon. Actual dead bodies caused by liberal policies don't matter a whit. What matters is that leftists can shout about "justice" and blame Americans for oppression. 

"BLM de-policing policies seem to have taken thousands of (mainly Black) lives. During the BLM era, the age-adjusted Black homicide rate has almost doubled, rising from 18.6 murders per 100K African-Americans in 2011 to 32 murders per 100K in 2021. Murders of Black males rose to… pic.twitter.com/5kwkFHm0zB

— Free Black Thought (@FreeBlckThought) January 16, 2025

It's a pattern. We must have censorship to preserve freedom, insecure ballots to promote democracy, "sanctuary" policies for violent felons to preserve the peace, and "criminal justice reform" to ensure that black people get justice. 

All these policies lead to the opposite of the claimed goal, and predictably so. It's almost as if exacerbating the problem is the point, and in many cases, it is. If you want to burn the system down, make it worse, and use the failures as an excuse to destroy it. That's why Marxists opposed the labor movement in the United States in the 1920s and 30s. They feared that better pay and working conditions would destroy the revolutionary spirit. 

If you want to know what the point of some policy is, ignore what its advocates SAY. Watch what the policy DOES. If a policy to eradicate homelessness leads to more homelessness, then eliminating homelessness was never the point. 

Deporting violent gang members obviously leads to fewer crimes; hence, sanctuary policies that claim to lead to more community safety clearly are not designed to do that. 

However "compassionate" these radical migration activists claim to be, the results are clear: more crime, including murder. So if they are fighting to keep Tren de Aragua and MS 13 members here, that's what they want.