Mexican National Indicted for Attacking Immigration Agents in Texas
A 28-year-old Mexican national faces charges after allegedly ramming immigration agents with his truck in Texas.
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A 28-year-old Mexican national, Eduardo Perez-Rodriguez, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly striking two federal immigration agents with his pickup truck while attempting to evade arrest in Brownsville, Texas. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas announced the indictment on Tuesday, revealing that Perez-Rodriguez is illegally present in the United States.
Charges and Incident Details
Perez-Rodriguez is charged with two counts of forcibly assaulting federal agents by using his vehicle as a deadly or dangerous weapon, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. He is currently detained pending future criminal proceedings.
Prosecutors allege that Perez-Rodriguez was driving a Ford F-150 pickup truck on October 2 when he was stopped by federal immigration agents for suspicion of being in the country illegally. Authorities claim Perez-Rodriguez refused to follow the agents’ instructions to exit his vehicle and instead sped away. As he fled, his vehicle allegedly struck two agents, running over the foot of one of the two.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office released a screenshot of an agent’s dash cam showing two agents lying on the pavement behind the vehicle Perez-Rodriguez was allegedly driving at the time of the incident. If convicted, Perez-Rodriguez faces up to 20 years in federal prison and a possible $250,000 maximum fine on each count.
Broader Context of Violence Against Immigration Officers
ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) conducted the investigation. The alleged attack is part of a broader surge in violence targeting immigration officers. In an October 22 post, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said ICE officers are facing a more than 1,600% increase in assaults against them. Mullin attributed the spike to “irresponsible rhetoric from sanctuary politicians and radical activists.”
As reported by Breitbart, in September a Cuban national, illegally present in the United States, was convicted of using his vehicle to ram into ICE vehicles to escape arrest in San Antonio. The incident also endangered federal immigration agents who managed to avoid injury during the escape attempt by 25-year-old Robyn Argote-Brooks, an illegal alien from Havana, Cuba.
A federal jury in San Antonio, Texas, convicted Argote-Brooks of both destruction of government property counts after a three-day trial. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, appointed by President Bill Clinton in December 1993, sentenced Argote-Brooks to 10 months in federal prison for each count and ordered him to pay $9,767 in restitution for the damage to federal property.
Source: Breitbart
