While officials with U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) have touted operations in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York City on social media, they haven’t yet publicly done so for Colorado.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division earlier this month, however, executed a search warrant in the wee hours at a “makeshift nightclub” in Adams County. Agents detained 49 individuals. Of those, 41 were unlawfully residing in the U.S., officials have said.

During a campaign stop in Aurora last fall, Trump swore to crack down on gang members illegally living in the U.S. in what he dubbed as “Operation Aurora.” Trump has also called for the death penalty for those who kill American citizens.

Under “Operation Aurora,” the federal government would expedite the removal of what Trump described as “savage gangs.”

“We are a country under tremendous distress,” Trump said. “We will send elite squads from ICE to deport every single gang member.”

Colorado’s third most populous city was thrust into the national spotlight last fall after a Venezuelan prison gang known as Tren de Aragua (TdA) took over at least two apartment complexes.

In the days since Trump was sworn in two weeks ago, ICE officials have announced on X that they have arrested and detained nearly 10,000 immigrants unlawfully in the U.S.

According to the agency’s X account, ICE agents have made arrests in Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Miami and New York City.

Even in Charleston, South Carolina.

The arrests included workplace enforcement, apprehensions of TdA gang members accused of drug dealing and the detention of immigrants unlawfully living in the U.S. with previous convictions for money laundering and those with traffic offenses.

“Our first priority is arresting the worst offenders,” ICE officials said in a Jan. 31 post on X, formerly Twitter.

No arrests or raids so far have been publicly announced in Colorado.

ICE officials on Monday, though, pointed to a Jan. 30 arrest of Juan Benitez-Ortega, 48, a Mexican national in Adams County. According to ICE, Benitez was charged with felony assault, kidnapping or false imprisonment stemming from a Dec. 28 incident. 

Officials also said Benitez, who is living in the U.S. unlawfully, has a prior conviction for driving while impaired.

Typically, illegal immigration is an issue that in the past has directly impacted border states. But interior states like Colorado began to experience an influx of immigration two years ago when about 90 immigrants were dropped off at Union Station and left to wander in the cold.

Since then, Denver has welcomed nearly 43,000 immigrants, mostly from South and Central America, particularly Venezuela who arrived in the city after illegally crossing the southern border.