The request to shackle him to his bed came after Castañeda Mondragón got up from his bed and took a few steps. ICE took this as him trying to flee, but the nurses said this wasn’t the case. »We were basically trying to explain to ICE that this is how someone with a traumatic brain injury is – they’re impulsive, » one of the nurses who spoke to AP said. « We didn’t think he was making a run for the door. »
Sharing the resolution that was agreed upon, they continued: « We eventually agreed with ICE that we would have a nursing assistant sit with the patient to prevent him from leaving.
« They agreed a little while later to take the shackles off. »
The news about the ordeal involving Castañeda Mondragón comes after a lawyer filed court documents seeking his release.
His lawyers said that their client was ‘racially profiled during the crackdown, and that officers determined only after his arrest that he had overstayed his visa’, AP reports.
A group of ICE agents are said to have sat down at a Mexican restaurant for lunch in a small town in Minnesota only to return a matter of hours later to detain the employees.
The Minnesota Star Tribune reports that the four agents sat down for lunch at El Tapatio restaurant in Willmar at roughly 3pm local time last Wednesday (January 14).
Come 8:30pm, the ICE agents arrested the employees near a local church and Willmar Middle School, after they closed the restaurant for the evening.
Bystanders are said to have blew whistles at the agents and one witness asked the agents ‘would your mama be proud of you right now?’, according to the Star Tribune.
In a statement provided to UNILAD, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said they had ‘conducted surveillance of a target’, an ‘illegal alien from Mexico’.DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said: « On January 14, ICE officers conducted surveillance of a target, Jose Rosario Gomez Gallardo an illegal alien from Mexico.
