"He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend's car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again."
"He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. "They started beating me right away when they arrested me," the Mexican immigrant recounted this week to The Associated Press, which recently reported on how his case contributed to mounting friction between federal immigration agents and a Minneapolis hospital."
"Castañeda Mondragón, 31, is one of an unknown number of immigration detainees who, despite avoiding deportation during the Trump administration's enforcement crackdown, have been left with lasting injuries following violent encounters with ICE officers. His case is one of the excessive-force claims the federal government has thus far declined to investigate. He was hurt so badly he was disoriented for days at Hennepin County Medical Center, where ICE officers constantly watched over him."
Alberto Castañeda Mondragón sustained severe head trauma after immigration agents pulled him from a car on Jan. 8, threw him to the ground, handcuffed him, punched him and struck his head with a steel baton. He endured eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages and required emergency treatment while under constant ICE supervision at Hennepin County Medical Center. Officers told nurses he had "purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall," an account caregivers and a doctor found inconsistent with his injuries. The case is listed among excessive-force claims that federal authorities have not investigated and has increased tensions between ICE and the hospital.
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