DENVER (KDVR) Nearly a week after U.S. Northern Command began providing facilities at Buckley Space Force Base at the request of the Department of Homeland Security for immigration operations, a U.S. representative for Colorado is investigating.

Rep. Jason Crow, a Democrat representing Colorado’s 6th Congressional District, released a statement about Buckley Space Force Base being used for “mass deportation efforts.” The 6th District includes much of Aurora and all of the military base.

“I am deeply concerned about reports that Buckley Space Force Base in my district will be used for mass deportation efforts,” Crow said in a statement through his office on Sunday. “Pulling our military into politicized and contentious domestic immigration enforcement dishonors the service of our troops and distracts them from the important work of defending our nation.”

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 last week 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 affiliate KDVR 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.

Crow has lengthy military service to his name, having enlisted in the National Guard during high school and joining the active-duty Army after graduating from college. He eventually became an Army Ranger and received a Bronze Star.

Crow has been vocal about his concerns stemming from initiatives the Trump Administration has begun to employ. On Jan. 30, he held a meeting with local immigration groups “to discuss President Trump’s executive orders and their impact on our schools, businesses, and places of worship.”

He echoed his concerns previously stated on social media in his statement released Sunday.

“Perhaps most disturbingly, it could force our service members to assist in the detention and deportation of peaceful members of the community,” Crow wrote. “The President is threatening to go after our neighbors, family members, business owners and friends in order to create a narrative that most immigrants are violent criminals. This is simply not true. 

“My community and our military can expect my vigorous oversight and, if warranted, my opposition as a member of Congress,” Crow said.

His statement comes about a week after a Drug Enforcement Administration’s raid in Adams County wherein ICE agents detained 49 people and ultimately arrested 41 people 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.