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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested an unlawful immigrant who the company stated “weaponized” his car by ramming two ICE automobiles, almost operating over an agent.
Cuban unlawful Robyn Argote Brooks rammed two ICE vehicles in a San Antonio parking zone in an try and evade arrest throughout a focused car cease, based on the Division of Homeland Safety.
Video captured of the incident reveals Brooks, who’s driving a sedan and is boxed in by brokers’ automobiles, defying legislation enforcement instructions and abruptly reversing, narrowly lacking an agent and hitting a federal SUV. After unsuccessfully accelerating into the bigger car, Brooks then speeds into one other ICE car in entrance of him, a sedan, and continues to speed up as brokers try and cease him.
Finally, an agent breaks via Brooks’ window and pulls him out of the automobile to make the arrest. The incident occurred Tuesday and comes amid heightened concern about illegals and anti-ICE agitators violently trying to disrupt federal legislation enforcement operations.
THREE VENEZUELAN ILLEGALS ARRESTED AFTER ICE OFFICER ‘AMBUSHED AND ATTACKED’ DURING TRAFFIC STOP: NOEM
Cuban unlawful Robyn Argote Brooks rammed two ICE vehicles in a San Antonio parking zone in an try and evade arrest throughout a focused car cease, based on ICE. (ICE; DHS)
DHS stated ICE officers are going through a 3,200% enhance in vehicular assaults. The company stated that, from Jan. 21, 2025, to Jan. 7, 2026, ICE officers skilled 66 “vehicular assaults,” in comparison with solely two throughout the identical time interval the earlier 12 months.
Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stated one of many ICE officers concerned within the arrest was injured and stated, “We’re praying for him, his well being and his household.”
She positioned the blame squarely on pro-sanctuary politicians she stated “have inspired unlawful aliens to evade arrest.”
“They’ve created an atmosphere that incites violence in opposition to our legislation enforcement,” stated McLaughlin, including that brokers are additionally going through a “greater than 1,300% enhance in assaults in opposition to them.”
OFFICER INJURED AFTER SUSPECT RAMS LAW ENFORCEMENT VEHICLES DURING CHARLOTTE IMMIGRATION RAIDS
Closeups of car injury after a ramming incident involving unlawful Robyn Argote Brooks, who DHS stated tried to evade arrest in San Antonio. (DHS)
“Secretary Noem has been clear: Anybody who assaults legislation enforcement will probably be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the legislation,” she warned.
In accordance with the company, Brooks entered the U.S. utilizing the Biden administration’s CBP One app in 2024, which it stated “allowed over one million unvetted aliens into the nation.”
Brooks is in ICE custody.
Appearing ICE Director Todd Lyons argued Tuesday that federal immigration brokers are going through “fixed impediments” and “fixed assaults.”
“After we hear elected officers calling upon people to impede or impede ICE legislation enforcement operations nationwide, you are going to see incidents like this,” stated Lyons. “You noticed the officers and brokers trying to apprehend a criminally unlawful alien, and there they’re utilizing their automobile as a weapon.”
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT INDICTED IN ASSAULT ON ICE AGENTS IN TEXAS
ICE brokers make an arrest, left; DHS Asst. Sec. Tricia McLaughlin, proper (Christopher Dilts/Getty Pictures; ‘Hannity’/Fox Information)
Lyons stated one of many brokers concerned later went to a hospital with neck accidents.
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“Day-after-day, that is what the women and men of ICE are going through,” he stated. “It is fixed impediments, fixed assaults like this. And it isn’t protected for my of us, it isn’t protected for the general public. It actually must cease.”
Fox Information Digital’s Landon Mion contributed to this report.
