We’re still not tired of winning yet. We never will be.
50 members of the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang were apprehended by federal agents in a temporary nightclub in Adams County, Colorado, situated just north of Denver. This action took place during an early Sunday morning raid.
After causing fear and chaos in the city of Denver and the neighboring suburb of Aurora, federal agents conducted a raid during the night and detained numerous individuals connected to Tren de Aragua.
According to the DEA, the law enforcement operation in Colorado disrupted a private party attended by numerous gang members in Adams County, located just beyond the borders of the city of Denver.
The busts netted cash, weapons, guns and drugs — including Tusi or “pink cocaine,” a powerful narcotic that the gang has played a major role in distributing across the US.
Video released by the DEA’s Rocky Mountain Division showed a white bus full of the busted gang members being escorted on the snowy roads by law enforcement vehicles.
The operation was carried out by agents from Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA.) Bad guys were caught, those with charges will be tried, and those who are in the country illegally will be deported. Fifty doesn’t seem like a large number set against the millions in the country illegally, but these are vicious gang members, precisely the sort that the Trump administration ordered be a priority.
“We want the country to know that we will all support the president’s priority to round up the most dangerous illegal criminals,” DEA acting administrator Derek Maltz told The Post.
Both President Trump and Homan have pledged to find, arrest and ultimately deport millions of migrants who have sneaked into the country illegally.
“The President and the DOJ leaders have made it clear that we are going to work together with a sense of urgency to hold violent criminals accountable,” Maltz said.
“The citizens of this country must feel safe every day throughout the country. One of my goals is to help build an army of good to fight evil.”
An army of good to fight evil – that’s a good way to phrase it. Kind of like, “It takes a good guy with a gun to beat a bad guy with a gun.”
What a difference a week makes.
And it’s not just happening in the Denver area.
That same day, the offensive continued in Los Angeles, with pre-dawn roundups expected to run seven days a week for the foreseeable future, sources told The Post.
It was not clear how many illegal immigrants were arrested in the LA raids, but sources said the migrants that were taken into custody were being held in ICE detention centers in California pending deportation.
The Chicago DEA this weekend shared images of agents huddling with its partners at ICE and the Department of Justice, the agency later posting on X that it was “conducting targeted operations” in the Windy City.
The Tren de Aragua gang originates from Venezuela’s Tocorón prison and has been designated by the Trump administration as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. The gang has established itself in several cities in the United States, and while individual gang members might get their own tattoos, they don’t sport specific tatts identifying their affiliation like several other Latin American gangs do.
ICE, however, has shown over the past few days that Tren de Aragua members can be rounded up and deported, tattoos or the lack of notwithstanding.
These people were a threat to the people of the Denver area. The gang was implicated in the armed takeover of several apartment buildings in the region and in extorting “rent” from the residents at gunpoint. Now, they will be sent back to Venezuela, or at least removed from the United States – except for those who are facing criminal charges for infractions beyond entering the country illegally.
It’s a new day in America. Illegal alien criminals, it seems, are finding that out the hard way.
