Migrant gangs are turning Aurora, Colo., apartment complexes into hellholes, and the Democratic governor is turning a blind eye.

It’s an unhappy consequence of being a suburb of sanctuary-city Denver: Venezuelan migrants have spread from the Mile High City, with allegedly gang-affiliated ones claiming apartment buildings as their turf, terrorizing residents.

One chilling video shows suspected Tren de Aragua members stalking through the complex with guns.

Another, from the same complex, shows two men breaking into a unit with a tire iron.

Mayor Mike Coffman confirmed that at least two buildings have been taken over, calling it an “organized criminal effort,” and adding, “I think we’re the victim of a failed policy at the southern border.”

City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky has warned: “I worry about everything that I know regarding this gang. And I worry about everything that I don’t know.”

But despite the mountains of evidence, Gov. Jared Polis (D.) is flat-out denying that it’s happening.

On Wednesday, his office called the invasion “a feature of Danielle Jurinsky’s imagination” and sneered that Polis “really hopes that the city council members in charge stop trashing their own city when they are supposed to keep it safe.”

This is gaslighting at its worst.

Was it Jurinsky’s “imagination” when local ringleader Jhonardy Jose Pacheco-Chirino and some of his thugs reportedly beat a man at one of these complexes? Or when he was involved in a shooting that wounded two men at the same complex?

Was it her imagination that prompted one apartment-dweller to tell Fox31 Denver, “It’s been a nightmare and I can’t wait to get out of here”?

Jurinsky has long been blaring the alarm on the migrant crisis’ impact on her city.

She’s called out the Harris-Biden administration for the “suffering” of Aurorans and slammed Denver officials for incentivizing migrants to flock the Mile High City region in droves by offering free housing and other taxpayer-funded goodies.

Polis is a relatively moderate Democrat: He’s advocated for getting rid of Colorado’s income tax and making the state more business-friendly; he traveled to the White House in February to push Harris-Biden to address border security and call for more funding to cities being overwhelmed by migrants.

But he’s also contributed to migrants’ overrun of the state: He signed a sanctuary law in 2019, prohibiting probation officers from “providing an individual’s personal information to federal immigration authorities,” and in June, he signed measures making it easier for migrants to get drivers’ licenses and government aid.

The gang’s power-grab in Aurora is inconvenient for Polis, hence his “don’t believe your lying eyes” approach.

By late Friday, it seemed he’d leaned on Mayor Coffman to shush, or at least to combat the “taken control” narrative — even as the city requested an emergency court order “to clear the apartment buildings where Venezuelan gang activity has been occurring.” 

Later in the weekend, Polis tweeted that “taking over buildings has no place in Colorado,” and he’s “been in touch” with Aurora officials over the past month and “offered any and all state assistance” to “back up any operation by the Aurora Police Department.”

That is: Don’t blame me!

The national migrant crisis has become so undeniable that even Kamala Harris has dropped the pretense that all is well.

Polis can continue to try to sell the lie that Aurora’s officials are “imagining” a gang takeover, but the town’s residents, like Americans in Dem-run cities across the country, are living the ugly truth.