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Josiah Hesse in Denver, Colorado

‘An incredible exaggeration’: Trump heads to Colorado town where he stoked anti-immigrant rumors

a group of people holding signs in English and Spanish saying
Juan Carlos Jimenez (center left) and Geraldine Massa speak during a rally held by the East Colfax Community Collective protesting the poor conditions in apartment buildings owned by CBZ Management on 3 September 2024, in Aurora, Colorado. Photograph: David Zalubowski/AP

When 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 immigrants who have arrived in the Denver metro area over the last two years, many of them Venezuelan families fleeing poverty and violence.

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