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https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-minneapolis-hospital-ice-beating-assault-4e77742e0629fc7f127c0aa38b3d2a70Immigrant 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 friends 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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UpInArms
(54,420 posts)They are not just goons, they are monsters
ret5hd
(22,342 posts)
William Seger
(12,280 posts)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.
Hope22
(4,546 posts)B.See
(8,020 posts)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.
Joinfortmill
(20,504 posts)mysteryowl
(8,749 posts)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
live love laugh
(16,257 posts)dalton99a
(92,834 posts)JPPaverage
(628 posts)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)The victim needs to be paid millions for this horrific act. We can take it out of the DHS fund.
