The Inter-Mountain photo by Taylor McKinnie The entrance to Don Patron Mexican Grill in Elkins with a closed sign in the window after the restaurant's usual opening hours.

ELKINS — Don Patron Mexican Grill in Elkins was closed on Friday after reported Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids at the Elkins, Weston and Bridgeport locations.

According to reports, ICE officers were seen conducting raids and detaining individuals on Thursday at three of Don Patron’s locations in Elkins, Weston and Bridgeport. Multiple individuals were seen being taken out of the restaurants and the locations in Weston and Bridgeport reportedly have closed signs on the door. It is also reported that ICE officers were possibly at Don Patron’s Buckhannon location as well, which is also said to be closed due to “a broken pipe”

On Friday, an Inter-Mountain reporter visited the Elkins location around 10 a.m. in the morning, before the restaurant usually opens at 11 a.m., to see if there was any activity around the area. Only two vehicles could be seen in the parking lot and there was a closed sign on the door. When the reporter returned to the restaurant just after noon, the two cars were still the only ones in the parking lot and the closed sign was still on the door.

The Inter-Mountain reached out to the Don Patron Elkins location for comment, but received no response.

In March, West Virginia jails suspended their acceptance of those detained by ICE. This came after U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin ordered the release of several detained individuals in West Virginia after he determined they had been unlawfully taken into custody by ICE officers. In one of his rulings, Goodwin said that government officials had continuously failed to uphold the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, which guarantees due process to anyone detained within the country, regardless of legal status.

“The Government continues to wrongfully detain those petitioners without due process,” Goodwin said in his memorandum. “Even now, the Government incredulously asserts that the federal district courts do not have jurisdiction, that petitioners cannot raise due process violations, and that the Government has authority to mandatorily and indefinitely detain non-citizens in the local jail. The Government is wrong. Judges in this district have said that over and over and over again. I have said it myself.”