More than 100 immigrants detained at an illegal after-hours nightclub in Colorado

AP More than immigrants suspected of being in the United States illegally were taken into custody early Sunday following a federal raid at an illegal after-hours nightclub in Colorado Springs Colorado personnel disclosed Video posted online by the Drug Enforcement Administration evidenced agents announcing their presence outside the building and ordering patrons to leave with their hands up Other videos manifested dozens of people fleeing the building through its entrance after federal agents smashed a window Later dozens of individuals were shown in handcuffs standing on a sidewalk waiting to be transported During his second stint as U S president Donald Trump s unprecedented campaign of immigration enforcement has pushed the limits of executive power and he has clashed with federal judges trying to restrain him The crackdown has included detaining more than international college students specific of whom have seen their legal status restored at least temporarily The policies have slowed immigration at the southern demarcation to a relative trickle On Sunday in Colorado U S Immigration and Customs Enforcement took the club-going immigrants into custody disclosed Jonathan Pullen special agent in charge of the DEA s Rocky Mountain Division Colorado Springs is waking up to a safer public in the present day he declared The city Colorado s second largest lies about miles kilometers south of Denver More than law enforcement officers and agents from multiple agencies responded to the nightclub which had been under assessment for several months for alleged programs including drug trafficking prostitution and crimes of violence Pullen disclosed at a news conference Cocaine was among the drugs located he announced When the cops demonstrated up at the door most of of the drugs hit the floor Pullen commented An undisclosed number of guns were seized he noted Trump posted a link to the DEA video of the raid on his social media site Truth Social A big Raid last night on particular of the worst people illegally in our Country Drug Dealers Murderers and other Violent Criminals of all shapes and sizes the president wrote Pullen estimated more than people were inside the nightclub Also among those detained were a dozen active-duty military members who either were patrons or working as armed precaution Specific patrons were arrested on undisclosed outstanding warrants Pullen commented Pullen did not specify the countries where the detained immigrants were from Earlier this month a federal judge in Colorado temporarily blocked deportations of immigrants who face attainable removal under Trump s invocation of an th century law known as the Alien Enemies Act