An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer was injured this week while trying to detain an undocumented immigrant in Chicago Heights, Illinois. According to the available information, the driver fled during a stop while the ICE agent was partly inside the car.
The immigration agency said the officer was struck by the vehicle and taken to a hospital with a leg injury. ICE said officers arrested Jose Juan Garnica-Naranjo the same day, Tuesday. ICE added that the man, a native of Mexico, had already been deported seven times in 2013.
According to a statement released by ICE, officers asked Garnica-Naranjo to turn off the car, but he refused. ICE says that when agents tried to pull him from the vehicle, Garnica-Naranjo drove off even though one of the officers was partly inside, having entered through the driver’s-side door. According to ICE, the officer fell out of the car and was then struck as Garnica-Naranjo fled.
Markwayne Mullin, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), blamed Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and other “pro-sanctuary politicians” for what he described as anti-ICE rhetoric. “This illegal alien used his vehicle to attack one of our ICE officers, resulting in his hospitalization,” Mullin said. “Fortunately, the officer has since been released from the hospital,” he added.
The DHS secretary’s statement continued: “This is the latest example of the staggering rise in violence directed at ICE, with assaults on our officers up more than 1,600%. This is the result of anti-ICE rhetoric from pro-sanctuary politicians such as Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. The Department of Homeland Security calls on Gov. Pritzker and all other pro-‘sanctuary’ politicians to stop this aggressive rhetoric and begin cooperating with ICE before more officers are injured in the line of duty.”
ICE cited several other Illinois cases involving arrests or detainers. They include a man accused of possessing eight Molotov cocktails in Mokena, a man arrested in connection with the killing of Sheridan Gorman, a Loyola University Chicago student, and a man accused of causing a fatal drunk-driving crash in Urbana.
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Source: Polski.FM
