'Barbaric': Illegal migrant learns his fate after strangling ICE agent
'Criminal alien with a rap sheet a mile long, violently punched one of our officers in the face and head and then began strangling the officer with his own badge cord'
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Jason Hopkins, Daily Caller News Foundation
December 15, 2025
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Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin attends a DHS component meeting at DHS Headquarters in Washington, D.C., Nov. 19, 2025. (DHS photo by Mikaela McGee)
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin attends a DHS component meeting at DHS Headquarters in Washington, D.C., Nov. 19, 2025. (DHS photo by Mikaela McGee)
An illegal migrant will be spending decades in prison after punching and strangling an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent.
Diego Barron-Esquivel, a criminal illegal migrant from Mexico, was sentenced to two decades in federal prison for violently assaulting and choking out an ICE agent earlier this year in Wichita, Kansas, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) exclusively shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. The sentence — which was the maximum penalty allowed — follows unprecedented violence against immigration officers.
"This barbaric criminal illegal alien with a rap sheet a mile long, violently punched one of our officers in the face and head and then began strangling the officer with his own badge cord," Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a prepared statement. "Our officers are facing a 1150% increase in violence against them as they arrest the worst of the worst."
https://www.wnd.com/2025/12/barbaric-illegal-migrant-learns-his-fate-after-strangling/
