Federal agents conducting immigration raids in Aurora-Denver area Wednesday morning

Federal immigration agents carried out raids Wednesday morning in Aurora and metro Denver,  with a video showing officers at an apartment building tossing what appears to be smoke grenades.

It’s not yet clear if anyone has been taken into custody. 

In a video posted Wednesday morning by the Rocky Mountain division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, two agents are seen outside an apartment building serving a warrant under what DEA officials called U.S. Department of Homeland Security operations. The department includes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 

The video did not include a location, but news reports said federal officers were at an apartment complex in Aurora that authorities have said was the site of Venezuelan gang activity. 

It was unclear whether it was the start of what President Donald Trump has called “Operation Aurora,” his plan to round up and deport immigrants who have committed crimes.

Across the country, federal agents have posted video or photos of raids, part of an effort to encourage people to “self deport.” 

Confusion and fear about raids has run rampant the past few weeks.

Last week, federal immigration agents were setting up a “temporary holding” and “processing” center at Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora. NBC News, citing anonymous sources, said that raids were imminent in Aurora, but then said the raids were postponed because media leaks could create a security risk for federal officers. 

Federal immigration agents were setting up the Buckley base as a staging area Wednesday to detain and process “criminal aliens,” according to a statement from U.S. Northern Command. 

Northern Command said the request from the Department of Homeland Security asked for ICE to have a “temporary operations center, staging area, and a temporary holding location for the receiving, holding and processing of criminal aliens.” But then U.S. Rep. Jason Crow, a Centennial Democrat whose district includes Buckley, visited the base and said he had been assured that it would not be used as a detention facility. 

On Jan. 26, the DEA conducted a raid in Adams County just north of Denver. Federal agents detained about 50 people, many of them connected to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, during an early-morning raid at a makeshift nightclub along Federal Boulevard, according to the regional DEA office.

The DEA’s special agent in charge of the Rocky Mountain region, Jonathan Pullen, told The Sun the raid was not part of Trump’s deportation efforts and that agents had been investigating the gang for months when they planned to raid a gang party. They seized four weapons, cash, cocaine and pink cocaine, which is a mix of cocaine and either methamphetamine or ketamine that gang members dye pink, Pullen said.

This is a developing news story that will be updated.