'There Was Never a Wall': Man Beaten Nearly to Death by ICE Refutes Self-Harm Claim
"A Mexican man beaten within an inch of his life last month by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents is on the mend and on Saturday spoke out to refute what one nurse called the agency’s 'laughable' claim that his injuries—which include a skull shattered in eight places and five brain hemorrhages—were self-inflicted."
"Alberto Castañeda Mondragón told the Associated Press that ICE agents pulled him from a friend’s car outside a shopping center in St. Paul, Minnesota—where the Trump administration’s ongoing Operation Metro Surge has left two people dead and thousands arrested—on January 8."
"The 31-year-old father was thrown to the ground, handcuffed, and then savagely assaulted with fists and a steel baton...'They started beating me right away when they arrested me,' he said."
"Castañeda Mondragón was then dragged into an SUV and taken to a holding facility at Ft. Snelling in suburban Minneapolis where he says he was beaten again. He said he pleaded with his attackers to stop, but they just 'laughed at me and hit me again.' "
“ 'They were very racist people,' he said. 'No one insulted them, neither me nor the other person they detained me with. It was their character, their racism toward us, for being immigrants.' "
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