Immigrant gangs are turning housing projects in Aurora, Colorado, into hell while the Democratic governor turns a blind eye.

It’s an unfortunate consequence of being a suburb of Denver, a city of refuge: Venezuelan migrants have spread out from the Mile High City, and alleged gang-affiliated criminals have claimed the apartment buildings as their turf and terrorized residents.

One horrifying video shows suspected members of the Tren de Aragua group circulating around the complex with weapons.

Another photo from the same complex shows two men breaking into an apartment with a tire iron.

Mayor Mike Coffman confirmed that at least two buildings had been seized, calling it “organized criminal activity” and adding, “I believe we are the victim of failed policy at the southern border.”

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

But despite mountains of evidence, Gov. Jared Polis (D.) vehemently denies it’s happening.

On Wednesday, his office called the invasion “a product of Danielle Jurinsky’s imagination” and sneered that Polis “really hopes responsible city council members will stop littering their own city when they should be keeping it safe.”

This is the worst kind of gaslighting.

Was it Jurinsky’s “imagination” when local Jhonarda leader Jose Pacheco-Chirino and several of his thugs allegedly beat up a man in one of these complexes? Or when he participated in a shooting that wounded two men in the same complex?

Was it her imagination that prompted one penthouse resident to tell Denver’s Fox31, “This has been a nightmare and I can’t wait to get out of here”?

Jurinsky has long been sounding the alarm about the impact of the migration crisis on her city.

She called out the Harris-Biden administration for the “suffering” of Aurora residents and criticized Denver officials for encouraging migrants to flock to the Mile High City region by offering them free housing and other taxpayer-funded benefits.

Polis is a relatively moderate Democrat: he has advocated eliminating Colorado’s income tax and making the state more business-friendly. In February, he went to the White House to press Harris-Biden on border security and called for more funding for cities flooded by migrants.

But he has also helped flood the state with migrants: In 2019, he signed a refugee law barring probation officers from “sharing individuals’ personally identifiable information with federal immigration authorities,” and in June he signed legislation making it easier for migrants to obtain driver’s licenses and government assistance.

The gang’s takeover of Aurora is inconvenient for Polis, hence his “don’t believe your eyes” approach.

By late Friday, he appeared to be pressuring Mayor Coffman to silence him or at least combat the “take back control” narrative — even as the city sought an emergency court order to “clear residential properties where Venezuelan gang activity has occurred.”

Later that weekend, Polis tweeted that “building takeovers do not happen in Colorado” and that he had been “in contact” with Aurora officials over the past month and “offered any assistance from the state” to “assist in any operations conducted by the Aurora Police Department.”

It means: Don’t blame me!

The migrant crisis has become so undeniable that even Kamala Harris has stopped pretending that everything is fine.

Police may continue to try to convince people that Aurora officials are “imagining” a gang takeover, but the town’s residents, like Americans in Democratic-run cities across the country, are living with the harsh truth.