Buckley Space Force Base providing facilities for ICE immigration processing

U.S. Space Force photo by Senior Airman Danielle McBride

By Heather Willard,
Published by KDVR, 29 January 2025

DENVER (KDVR) — U.S. Northern Command began providing facilities at Buckley Space Force Base at the request of the Department of Homeland Security on Monday for immigration operations, a spokesperson told FOX31 on Tuesday.

According to a statement provided by U.S. Northern Command, the facilities were provided to “enable U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to stage and process criminal aliens within the U.S. for an operation taking place in Colorado.”

USNORTHCOM said that no military personnel would be involved in the operation. Instead, the facility will be staffed by “ICE senior leaders, special agents, and analysts, as well as members of DHS Components and other federal law enforcement agencies.”

A USNORTHCOM spokesperson told FOX31 that ICE’s facility requirements include a temporary operations center, staging area, and a temporary holding location for the receiving, holding and processing of undocumented immigrants.

On Friday, the USNORTHCOM announced that 150 soldiers from Fort Carson would be deployed to the U.S. southern border to support ICE and border protection operations.

Fort Carson said the units were called by President Donald Trump to the southern border to “protect and defend the territorial integrity of the United States.” Trump has been issuing sweeping executive actions and orders to change the U.S. immigration landscape since he was inaugurated last week.

The news also comes on the heels of a Drug Enforcement Administration’s raid in Adams County wherein ICE agents detained 49 and ultimately arrested 41 who the agency said were in the country illegally. The raid was the result of a months-long investigation by the DEA’s Rocky Mountain Field Division. The RMFD has been investigating drug trafficking by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua since “last summer,” according to DEA RMFD Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Pullen.

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