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dalton99a

(92,834 posts)
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 08:53 AM 2 hrs ago

Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-minneapolis-hospital-ice-beating-assault-4e77742e0629fc7f127c0aa38b3d2a70

Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
By JACK BROOK, MICHAEL BIESECKER, JIM MUSTIAN and CEDAR ATTANASIO
Updated 7:37 AM CST, February 7, 2026

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.

But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain.

He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again.

He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

“They started beating me right away when they arrested me,” the Mexican immigrant recounted this week to The Associated Press, which recently reported on how his case contributed to mounting friction between federal immigration agents and a Minneapolis hospital.

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Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked (Original Post) dalton99a 2 hrs ago OP
Monsters UpInArms 1 hr ago #1
Now is the time of monsters: ret5hd 1 hr ago #2
Sadistic monsters given licenses to assault anyone they choose William Seger 43 min ago #8
As is their leader.... Hope22 9 min ago #11
History will one day recount how B.See 1 hr ago #3
This is horrible; these people are monsters. I do hope there will be a reckoning. Joinfortmill 1 hr ago #4
It is how the border patrol have operated since 1924, at the border. mysteryowl 1 hr ago #5
Abolish ICE AND Border Patrol. Border Patrol is worse. live love laugh 47 min ago #7
+1. Border Patrol has a long, documented history of open corruption and gratuitous violence dalton99a 15 min ago #10
An eye for an eye JPPaverage 47 min ago #6
There needs to be arrests and prosecutions mysteryowl 39 min ago #9

William Seger

(12,280 posts)
8. Sadistic monsters given licenses to assault anyone they choose
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 10:13 AM
43 min ago

Their QUALIFIED immunity protects them from civil liability, so they can't be sued, but they CAN be held criminally liable, if any DA has the guts to pursue it.

B.See

(8,020 posts)
3. History will one day recount how
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 09:22 AM
1 hr ago

jackbooted masked THUGS terrorised immigrants and American citizens alike, beat maimed and murdered people, destroyed lives traumatized families, women, and children and turned American cities into WARZONES, all based upon the HATE lies and whims of their pedo rapist antiChrist and the malignant sick-fk mentalities that support him, empower him, and cheer his atrocities.

In the annals of CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, they and their 'chosen one' will rank among the world's WORST, for all to see and judge.

mysteryowl

(8,749 posts)
5. It is how the border patrol have operated since 1924, at the border.
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 09:55 AM
1 hr ago

Now we have these criminal thugs deep into America pulling this crap.

They should not do it anywhere! Ever!

This link is regarding the origins of border patrol and how they operate. It is nothing new for this racist violent agency. What is new, is that we now experience it in the streets of America for both non-citizens and citizens alike.
https://democraticunderground.com/100221002086

JPPaverage

(628 posts)
6. An eye for an eye
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 10:09 AM
47 min ago

It sounds barbaric but the magats only understand violence. So along with prison time, they should get their balls kicked in by their victims.

mysteryowl

(8,749 posts)
9. There needs to be arrests and prosecutions
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 10:16 AM
39 min ago

The victim needs to be paid millions for this horrific act. We can take it out of the DHS fund.

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