This screenshot from a video posted on X by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Division exhibits legislation enforcement officers raiding a nightclub in Colorado Springs.
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The Drug Enforcement Administration says a raid carried out with different legislation enforcement businesses in Colorado Springs on Sunday led to the seize of greater than 100 immigrants who’re within the U.S. illegally.
The DEA’s Rocky Mountain Division mentioned in a submit on X that 114 immigrants have been arrested and positioned “on buses for processing and sure eventual deportation.”
The DEA mentioned in a separate submit earlier within the day that the “multi-agency enforcement operation” at an “underground nightclub” early on Sunday had additionally resulted within the seizure of medicine and weapons.
The raid seems to be one of many largest single-day arrests of individuals with out authorized standing since Trump was inaugurated in January, with a promise to conduct mass deportations.
Video posted on-line by the DEA confirmed an agent bashing by way of a glass window on the entrance of the constructing earlier than individuals started streaming out of the entrance door, the place legislation enforcement authorities have been ready. Officers, a few of whom had weapons drawn, shouted on the patrons to cease and get down. Many put their palms up or acquired on the bottom.
The company mentioned it gave a number of warnings urging individuals inside to come back out earlier than the raid. Greater than 200 individuals have been within the membership, authorities mentioned, and arrests started round 3:45 a.m. native time.
Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi mentioned that the membership was “frequented by Tda and MS-13 terrorists.” That’s doubtless a reference to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that has been a goal of Trump administration deportations within the U.S.
NPR couldn’t instantly confirm the authorized standing of these arrested, and whether or not there’s any proof of gang membership.
Bondi mentioned two individuals have been additionally arrested on present warrants, and that authorities seized “cocaine, meth, and pink cocaine.”
In a video posted on-line by Denver7 Information, DEA Particular Agent in Cost Jonathan Pullen mentioned “what was occurring inside was important drug trafficking, prostitution, crimes of violence — we seized a variety of weapons in there.”
Pullen added that there have been over a dozen energetic responsibility service members within the membership both as patrons or working as armed safety guards.
