Judge orders instant launch of Minnesota man hospitalized with ‘life-threatening’ head accidents after ICE arrest | EUROtoday

A federal decide has ordered the instant launch of a Mexican man from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Minnesota after he suffered “life-threatening” head accidents after his arrest.

A person recognized in courtroom paperwork as Alberto C.M., who entered the nation legally on a brief employee visa in 2022, was hospitalized with cranium fractures and mind hemorrhages shortly after his arrest in St. Paul throughout Donald Trump’s surge of immigration enforcement officers within the state.

The reason behind his accidents continues to be unknown. According to the lawsuit, officers advised hospital workers that he was “laying down in handcuffs when he attempted to flee, and then, for unknown reasons, purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

ICE has “largely refused to provide information” about what occurred, besides to say that he “he got his s*** rocked,” in keeping with the decide.

Hennepin County Medical Center information mirror that Albert C.M. advised workers there that he was “dragged and mistreated by federal agents,” the decide wrote. He has remained in ICE custody since then, handcuffed to his hospital mattress.

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The Independent has requested remark from Homeland Security.

Friday’s order from District Judge Donovan Frank arrived as federal brokers who surged into the Minneapolis space face rising protests in opposition to the Trump administration’s mass deportation marketing campaign, with demonstrations deliberate throughout the nation.

The surge is Homeland Security’s largest immigration enforcement operation but, with officers accused of violently concentrating on immigrants and residents alike and dealing with off in opposition to protesters in clashes all through the Minneapolis space.

Administration officers have denied allegations of unconstitutional abuse and use of power, whereas a federal decide has moved to dam officers from “retaliatory” use of riot management weapons in opposition to demonstrators. An appeals courtroom has briefly frozen that order whereas a authorized problem continues.

“There is no reason to believe that Mr. Castaneda Mondragon was arrested for any other reason than that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time — that is, that he was a brown-skinned Latino Spanish-speaker at a location that immigration agents arbitrarily decided to target,” in keeping with Alberto’s lawsuit.

An ICE official advised the courtroom that Alberto “was in the middle of the intake process to initiate removal proceedings when it was determined he had a head injury and needed to be taken to the hospital,” in keeping with Judge Frank.

“The intake process has not been completed to this day, 15 days after his initial arrest,” he wrote.

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In 2025, 32 individuals died in ICE custody, marking the deadliest yr contained in the company for greater than 20 years, and tied for essentially the most variety of deaths amongst ICE detainees ever.

Within the primary weeks of 2026, at the very least six individuals have died in ICE custody, in keeping with the company.

Healthcare employees at Minnesota’s Hennepin Healthcare have spoken out in opposition to federal officers at its hospitals, fearing that their presence there disrupts care and prevents individuals from in search of it out over fears that they are going to be focused for arrest.

ICE brokers are “bringing in their patients with injuries that are completely inconsistent with the stories that they are telling, and they are not allowing the patient to tell their side of the story of what happened,” in keeping with state Senator Alice Mann, who spoke alongside healthcare employees and state lawmakers on the state Capitol this week.

“We see firsthand that when people delay or avoid care,” stated Dr. Roli Dwivedi, a former president of the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians. “The bottom line is, is this making America healthy again?”