DHS says illegal immigrant injured head after hitting concrete wall while fleeing ICE, denies beating claims

An amerciable migrant who claimed helium was beaten by migration officers truthful severely that helium couldn't retrieve that helium had a daughter, deed his caput connected a factual partition portion attempting to flight from authorities, the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday. 

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers had placed Alberto Castaneda-Mondragon, 31, a Mexican citizen, successful handcuffs during a Jan. 8 cognition successful Minnesota erstwhile helium tried to escape, DHS said. 

"While successful handcuffs, Castaneda attempted to ESCAPE custody and ran toward a main highway," the bureau wrote connected X. "While running, Castaneda fell and deed his caput against a factual wall."

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Alberto Castaneda-Mondragon successful an flat connected Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, successful St. Paul. Homeland Security said Castaneda-Mondragon wounded himself trying to fly national authorities. (Mark Vancleave/AP Photo)

Once officers nabbed Castaneda-Mondragon, they called an ambulance to analyse him, authorities said. He declined aesculapian services and stated helium was uninjured, DHS said. 

The officers notified aesculapian unit astatine the detention installation and Castaneda-Mondragon was taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center for his caput injury.

In an interrogation with The Associated Press, Castaneda-Mondragon recalled the events differently. 

"They started beating maine close distant erstwhile they arrested me," helium said. 

He told the quality outlet that helium was successful a conveyance with a person erstwhile ICE agents pulled them implicit extracurricular a St. Paul buying center. He said helium was thrown to the ground, handcuffed and past punched and struck successful the caput with a alloy baton. 

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Observers movie ICE agents arsenic they clasp a perimeter aft 1 of their vehicles got a level tyre connected Penn Avenue connected Feb. 5, 2026, successful Minneapolis. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, wherever helium said helium was beaten again.

Castaneda-Mondragon said helium besides remembers the exigency country and claimed helium suffered 8 skull fractures and 5 life-threatening encephalon hemorrhages.

"There was ne'er a wall," Castañeda said successful Spanish.

Once helium was taken to an ICE holding installation astatine Ft. Snelling successful suburban Minneapolis, Castaneda-Mondragon said officers resumed beating him. He pleaded with them to halt but they conscionable "laughed astatine maine and deed maine again," helium said. 

"They were precise racist people," helium said. "No 1 insulted them, neither maine nor the different idiosyncratic they detained maine with. It was their character, their racism toward us, for being immigrants."

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Homeland Security placed the blasted connected Castaneda-Mondragon and those who dangerously defy apprehension erstwhile confronted by authorities. 

"Resisting officers and evading apprehension is unsafe for our officers, amerciable aliens, and the nationalist — it is besides a felony and a national crime," the bureau said. "Sanctuary politicians request to halt encouraging this unsafe behaviour that puts our officers and the nationalist astatine risk."