February 6th, 2025: ICE Takes Down Violent Venezuelan Gang & Trump’s Gaza Proposal Sparks Pushback

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What is the focus of ICE's recent operation?

Mike Baker 2:50
in the early morning hours of wednesday federal agents with u.s immigration and customs enforcement ice raided several apartment complexes in aurora colorado that the gang had taken over last year and transformed into drug and prostitution dens as a reminder the greater denver area has long been a hot spot for illegal immigration due to the capital's status as a sanctuary city and has been a high priority for president trump's border czar tom homan as he enacts the president's deportation agenda. ICE agents had reportedly spent days surveilling the properties before executing the raids dubbed Operation Aurora. Well, there's a clever name. We're going to conduct an operation in Aurora. What should we call it?
Mike Baker 3:35
Among others, they were allegedly trying to nab an unnamed senior member of TDA who's become a powerful cocaine kingpin in the Denver area, according to sources who spoke with the Daily Mail. We don't know whether the suspect in question was apprehended, but sources on the grounds that at least six men were seen being taken away in handcuffs at the Whispering Pines apartment complex. Now, Whispering Pines was one of at least three apartment complexes in the region that crews of gun-wielding TDA members seized last year. As you may recall, members were caught on surveillance video last summer at one of the complexes, breaking into units and terrorizing residents before engaging in a shootout that severely injured at least one person.
Mike Baker 4:18
Officials with ICE said they carried out raids at three separate apartment complexes on Wednesday that served as strongholds for the gang's operations. In a statement on social media, ICE officials said, quote, 100 plus members of the violent gang TDA were targeted for arrest and detention in Aurora, Colorado, today by ICE and its partners, end quote.

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