Aurora Sentinel: Some day in the future, there will be a long list of lessons learned about how Aurora botched the Venezuelan immigrant calamity, but local, state and federal officials can correct course right now to stem the disaster.

Aurora — for generations a bastion of pride and hope for all races and all cultures from people from around the globe — has tragically become ground zero in a dog-whistle race war against immigrants.

For weeks, a growing clan of Republican extremists, led by Republican Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky, have flooded the media with disinformation, exaggerations and fear-mongering, insisting that a notorious Venezuelan gang has overrun parts or all of Aurora.

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