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

[dalton99a]

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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[UpInArms]

1. Monsters

They are not just goons, they are monsters

[ret5hd]

2. Now is the time of monsters:

[William Seger]

8. Sadistic monsters given licenses to assault anyone they choose

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]

11. As is their leader....

[B.See]

3. History will one day recount how

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]

4. This is horrible; these people are monsters. I do hope there will be a reckoning.

[mysteryowl]

5. It is how the border patrol have operated since 1924, at the border.

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]

7. Abolish ICE AND Border Patrol. Border Patrol is worse.

[dalton99a]

10. +1. Border Patrol has a long, documented history of open corruption and gratuitous violence

[leftstreet]

13. +1

[JPPaverage]

6. An eye for an eye

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]

9. There needs to be arrests and prosecutions

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

[moniss]

12. Down in Texas this would have been

considered no problem and likely resulted in promotions for the perpetrators.

[pandr32]

14. This regime has given permission to violent brawlers to go for it with pay.

It's insane.

[malaise]

15. Racism and cruelty are the point

Despicable monsters all

[Blue Owl]

16. This is the Stephen Miller Doctrine

That sick fuck needs to spend the rest of his miserable life in a straitjacket, locked up in a maximum security hole in the ground