EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – At least six public servants report being assaulted in the past two weeks while trying to apprehend undocumented immigrants with known criminal records.
The injured include Drug Enforcement Administration and Homeland Security Investigations agents in Arizona.
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The first assaults were reported last July 21 in Phoenix, after HSI agents learned that an undocumented immigrant had tried to buy a gun from a licensed firearms dealer. The agents further learned that Santos Mendivil Contreras had come into the U.S. in November 2022 on a visitor’s visa that expired a month later and never left.
The agents showed up twice to Mendivil’s house, knocked but nobody came out. They set up surveillance on Mendivil’s house and tried to take him into custody when they saw him driving up to his residence in a Chevrolet S-10 pickup.
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Court records allege Mendivil stepped out of his vehicle and tried to enter the home. When he could not, he began “kicking, spitting, biting” and trying to take a handgun from an agent…