Members of the U.S. military provided security for and frequented an illegal nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, said to be a hangout for illegal-alien gang members.
But that startling revelation was only secondary in far-left mainstream media reports about the wee-hours Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) raid on Sunday that netted 114 illegal aliens, along with illegal guns and drugs. The media focused on the illegals and said little about the GIs’ providing security.
The military personnel were soldiers stationed at nearby Fort Carson, which confirmed the arrests. The presence of gang members and soldiers at the same venue — with the soldiers acting as guards carrying weapons — suggests that the gangs could have penetrated the military.
The Raid
The 3 a.m. raid began with a megaphoned warning from a DEA agent captured on official video.
“Occupants of 296 South Academy, this is the police with a search warrant demanding entry,” the agent said. “Exit the front door one at a time with nothing in your hands, held high above your head. Listen to the commands of the officers on site.”
The agent repeated the command in Spanish.
Another video shows agents smashing into the 21st-century speakeasy. As illegals and other poured out of the club to flee from arrest or deportation, the cops shouted, “Police, don’t move,” “Hands up, hands up,” and “Get down, get down get down!”
Some 200 people were inside the illegal-alien spot; 114 illegals were detained.
The Results
The DEA agent in charge, Jonathan Pullen, explained just what was going on inside at a news conference. The revelers weren’t just drinking beer and whiskey.
Explaining the 300-man raid, Pullen said:
[T]his is an underground, illegal nightclub, OK, and what was happening inside was significant drug trafficking, prostitution, [and] crimes of violence.
We seized a number of guns in there. We had active-duty service members who were running security … and involved in some of these crimes. And in fact we had over 100 illegal aliens inside … and … over a 100 illegal aliens were taken into custody by ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement].
Asked about the service members there, he elaborated:
We had over a dozen active-duty service members in the club tonight, either as patrons or working as armed security.
“I think everybody who goes into a nightclub at 3 o’clock in the morning knows what they’re getting into,” Pullen continued.
MilitaryTimes confirmed with officials at Fort Carson, home of the Army’s 4th Infantry Division, that soldiers were, indeed, at the club. A Fort Carson spokesman told the website:
Fort Carson leaders are aware of the Drug Enforcement Administration-led operation that occurred at an illegal night club in Colorado Springs early Sunday morning. We acknowledge that there were some Fort Carson service members present at the location during the operation.
Have Terrorists Infiltrated the Military?
On X, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi disclosed that illegal-alien members of two terror gangs were regular customers.
“This morning @DEAHQ apprehended over 100 illegal aliens at an underground nightclub frequented by Tda and MS-13 terrorists,” Bondi wrote:
Cocaine, meth, and pink cocaine was seized. 2 people were also arrested on existing warrants.
That disclosure, along with the frightening revelation that soldiers provided security, raises the disturbing possibility that terrorists have infiltrated the U.S. Army or that soldiers joined the gangs and became terrorists.
Aside from ICE and Rocky Mountain DEA, the FBI; the Internal Revenue Service; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the U.S. Postal Inspection Service; the U.S. Marshals Service; the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division; the Colorado Springs Police Department; and the Douglas and El Paso sheriff’s departments participated in the investigation.
“The party is OVER. Law and order has returned,” the Department of Homeland Security X feed explained, noting that the Trump administration is “taking a whole of government approach to removing criminal illegal aliens from American communities.”
“A big Raid last night on some of the worst people illegally in our Country — Drug Dealers, Murderers, and other Violent Criminals, of all shapes and sizes, and Judges don’t want to send them back to where they came from,” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social:
If we don’t win this battle at the Supreme Court, our Country, as we know it, is FINISHED! It will be a Crime ridden MESS. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Operation Tidal Wave
In yet another strike against illegal-alien criminals, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported the results of last week’s Operation Tidal Wave, a federal-state-local effort to round up illegals.
With the help of cops in Miami and other Florida law enforcement, federal authorities rounded up almost 800 illegals, DHS reported on X.
“This multi-day operation resulted in 780 illegal aliens apprehended,” the agency stated:
Arrests include members of MS-13, murderers, rapists, drug traffickers and human rights abusers.
DHS repeated its warning today for illegals to self-deport using the new smartphone application from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
“If you are in this country illegally: LEAVE NOW and self-deport using the CBP Home app,” DHS warned. “If you don’t, you will face the consequences. This includes a fine of nearly $1,000 per day that you overstay your final deportation order.”
The illegals arrested on Sunday morning apparently didn’t get that message the first time DHS posted it.
