Federal agents raided an underground nightclub in Colorado at dawn on Sunday and arrested more than 100 people who said they were documented immigrants, according to the drug control administration.
The raid occurred in a club in Colorado Springs, about 70 miles south of Denver. Federal officials said there were more than 200 people within the club at that time, including 114 that were in the country illegally. They said that more than a boxes were also arrested members of the US Army.
The authorities said the agents found illicit weapons and drugs within the nightclub, such as cocaine, methamphetamine and a mixture of powdered drugs known as pink cocaine.
Jonathan C. Pullen, the special agent of the Rocky Mountain Division of the DEA, said at a press conference that the club had been under police surveillance for months and that “drug trafficking, prostitution and crimes of violence” had taken place within the club.
Mr. Pullen said that the immigration and customs application took custody of immigrants arrested in the club. He said that the Army members were “executing security in the club and involved in some of these crimes.”
The members of the service were delivered to the Criminal Investigation Division of the US Army, who do not immediately respond on Sunday to a request for comments.
Mr. Pullen said that the duration of the club’s investigation, the agents of the law saw members of Los Angels de Hell, MS-13 and the Aragua gangs inside the club.
“I don’t have information about whether the members were there tonight, but we are still working in much of that, because we have many people in custody,” said Pulls.
The DEA and several members of the Trump administration published videos and photos of the raid in their social media accounts on Sunday.
In a video posted in X by the Rocosa Mountain Division of the DEA, you can see the agents breaking a window while the lights of the red and blue police flash around them. When the agents break the window, several people run from the building and raise their hands while the agents of the law seem to point weapons on the subject.
Another video showed a line of people of people with arms tied behind the back.
The agency said that the UND documented immigrants who were arrested were placed on buses “to process and probably any deportation.”
Mr. Pullen said there were around 300 police officers from several agencies that participated in the raid.
Attorney General Pamela Bondi praised the raid in a statement in social networks, saying that two people with existing arrest orders had arrested.
The raid was the last exhibition of the Trump administration’s efforts to take energetic measures against illegal immigration, which seems to be struggling to gather enough people to meet Trump’s mass deportation objectives.
The administration has published its raids in the big cities and their deportation flights to Latin America, using tactics with a show that have deeply bewildered immigrants communities.
Sunday’s efforts to reach local immigrant defense groups for comments were not immediately successful.
The administration of President Trump has been criticized for erroneously deporting people, including US citizens, who have been caught in repression.
A federal judge said Friday that the Trump administration had deported a 2 -year -old American citizen to Honduras “without a significant process” and against his father’s wishes.
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