More Than 100 Illegal Immigrants Arrested in Raid of Underground Nightclub

The Colorado Springs raid shut down the illegal party with more than 200 attendees—and found drugs and weapons.

Officers stop a patron at a nightclub where a raid occurred in Colorado Springs, Colo., on April 27, 2025, in a still from video. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration via AP

More than 100 illegal immigrants were arrested during a raid on an underground nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that is allegedly frequented by members of the gangs MS-13 and Tren de Aragua (TDA).

In a social media post pinned to its account, the Rocky Mountain Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) wrote: “Rocky Mountain led a multi-agency enforcement operation along with our local and federal partners early this morning. @DHSgov has taken more than 100 illegal aliens into custody. Drugs and weapons have also been seized at this underground nightclub in Colorado Springs.”

A video attached to the post shows the moment when the approximately 300 federal and local agents involved in the operation breached the facility. Dozens of people streamed out from inside the club to orders from police to get down.

The Rocky Mountain DEA said in another post on social media platform X that 200 people were in attendance when the club was breached, more than 100 of whom are now in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“DEA partners and @DHSgov placed patrons (in the U.S. illegally) on buses for processing and likely eventual deportation,” it said in another X post.

Photos posted to the account show containers of beer and unidentified drugs. The DEA also said that it found “tusi,” a substance laced with ketamine and other drugs. It is said to be a “calling card” for MS-13.

At an April 27 news conference following the raid, DEA Rocky Mountain Division Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Pullen said the illegally operated club was a place of “significant drug trafficking, prostitution, [and] crimes of violence.”

“We seized a number of guns in there,“ Pullen said. ”We had active-duty service members who were running security at the club and involved in some of these crimes.”

He said that more than a dozen such service members were detained, including both staff and patrons.

“Colorado Springs is waking up to a safer community today,” Pullen said.

President Donald Trump praised the raid and the arrests in a post on Truth Social.

“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,” he wrote. “If we don’t win this battle at the Supreme Court, our Country, as we know it, is FINISHED!”

Trump referenced ongoing injunctions and other orders from the judicial branch that have slowed his implementation of mass deportations of illegal immigrants.

Two major cases currently pending at the Supreme Court, both of which name Trump as the respondent and do not name the plaintiffs directly, concern Trump’s attempts to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport foreigners judged to have ties to MS-13 or TDA. Both gangs have been named terrorist organizations by the administration.

Attorney General Pam Bondi also weighed in on the raid, saying in a post on X: “This morning @DEAHQ apprehended over 100 illegal aliens at an underground night club frequented by [TDA] and MS-13 terrorists. Cocaine, meth, and pink cocaine was seized. 2 people were also arrested on existing warrants.

“As we approach his 100 days in office, @POTUS Trump’s directive to make America safe again is achieving results!”