Immigrant claims violent ICE arrest; judge rules detention unlawful

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Scripps News/AP

Posted 8:49 AM, Feb 07, 2026


lberto Castañeda Mondragón's memory was jumbled after he says he was badly beaten last month while being taken into custody by immigration officers. He did not remember much of his past, but the violence of the Jan. 8 arrest in Minnesota was seared into his battered brain.

The Mexican immigrant told The Associated Press this week that he remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, and then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton.

He remembers being taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. Then came the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

Castañeda Mondragón, 31, is one of an unknown number of immigration detainees who, despite avoiding deportation, have been left with lasting injuries following violent encounters with ICE. While the Trump administration insists ICE limits its enforcement operations to immigrants with violent rap sheets, he has no criminal record.

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/immigration/immigrant-claims-violent-ice-arrest-judge-rules-detention-unlawful

[SoFlaBro]

1. That result is par for the cowardly MAGA fuckstains that pollute ICE, DHS, and other fucking federal agencies

[Walleye]

2. We know this happens, we saw the video of Alex Pretti being beaten

What in the hell is wrong with these people. Are the ICE guys really Americans or did they recruit them from Russia? I really have a hard time with the idea that half of America is this fucking hateful

[Justice matters.]

6. The two muderers (beating him before shooting him) are Hispanics...

10 bullets to end the "job"... I bet they are WWE "fanboys" ...

[SunSeeker]

3. Horrific. Every ICE agent who ever touched Iberto should be investigated.

And whoever cracked his skull should be in jail.

[brer cat]

4. I think if a few of these thugs got the punichment they deserve,

the rest would start shaping up. The problem is, of course, DOJ exists now to protect them, not prosecute them.

[BaronChocula]

5. I agree

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and her office have their hands full going after the Minneapolis killers. I hope they expand their net to other abuses. It may take a while to get to court, but I think even arrests would render some behavior adjustment in these proud boy rejects.