Dozens of undocumented immigrants were detained in the attack on a nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado early Sunday morning, officials say the Trump administration is stepping up enforcement efforts nationwide.
More than 100 people have been detained by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE), special representatives from the Rocky Mountain Division of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA); Press conference.
DEA officials said more than 200 people, including at least 114 in the US, were inside an underground nightclub before their first arrest was made before 4am local time. Pullen said the “minority” was taken into custody on unpaid warrants, but most were turned away.
“Only those with illegal or warrants here have been detained. Most party participants were eventually released,” Dea Rocky Mountain wrote in a post on social media platform X.
According to Pullen, around 300 law enforcement agencies participated in the RAID. Ten federal agencies, as well as local sheriff’s office and police departments assisted in the attack.
President Trump promoted the attack Posts His platform is socially social, attempting to link enforcement efforts to some of his more controversial deportation moves that have sparked a fight with various courts across the country, including the Supreme Court.
“Last night, there were drug dealers, murderers, other violent criminals, big attacks of all shapes and sizes, including some of the big assaults of the worst illegal people in our country, and the judges don’t want to send them back where they came. Trump posted along with a video of agents facing off against the escaped patrons.
in videopolice begin to crush the windows as red and blue police lights flash on the building. Several people then leave the nearby door and try to run past the parked vehicle as police screams at them.
Another video What the president and management accounts share were shown to agents with badges indicating they are in offices of various federal law enforcement agencies, including the DEA, FBI, ICE, the U.S. Postal Inspection Office and the IRS law enforcement department. In the video, it appears they are waiting to board the bus.
Pullen said authorities were investigating the club “for several months” before launching Sunday’s attack.
“this morning [DEA] We have arrested more than 100 illegal aliens in underground nightclubs frequented by TDA and MS-13 terrorists,” Attorney General Pam Bondy said in a post in X, referring to Venezuelan gangster Tren de Aragua and international gangster MS-13.
The DEA said weapons and illegal drugs were recovered in the attack. Bondi said cocaine, meto and pink cocaine had been seized. She said the two were arrested on an existing warrant.
Among those encountered by law enforcement were “more than 12 active duty veterans” who were patrons and security at nightclubs. I said In a social media post.
Some service members of Fort Carson, an Army post in Colorado Springs, attended the nightclub, a spokesperson said. New York Times Sunday night.
“Each person involved in this case is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty. We will look at the situation for all people on a case-by-case basis,” the spokeswoman told The Times. “All kinds of illegal activities do not represent our military values.”
DEA Special Agents indicated that the Army Criminal Investigation Division would be involved in the investigation.
A spokesman for the Army Post did not immediately return a request for comment on the Hill late Sunday.
