EDITORIAL: Colorado welcomes foreign criminals | Editorials | denvergazette.com

Welcome to Colorado — the most desirable state for foreign criminals, drug dealers and human traffickers. - The Gazette editorial board

No one should be the least surprised that federal law enforcement found more than 100 suspected illegal aliens during the raid of a non-licensed Colorado Springs nightclub in the wee hours of Sunday. Equally unsurprising is that federal agents found deadly drugs, illegal guns and evidence of prostitution and human trafficking.
The detainees were not neighboring Mexicans here to frame houses and harvest crops. 

They were mostly from South and Central America — migrants who Mexican authorities try to keep south of the Mexican border to protect their citizens and resources. 

Law enforcers believe the detainees include members of the foreign prison gangs Tren de Aragua and MS-13.
Foreign criminals aren’t here for hiking trails, ski slopes, mountain vistas and open spaces...