A mob of agitators confronted ICE agents and pelted the immigration agents during the arrest of a suspected member of the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang in Elgin, Illinois. According to the Department of Homeland Security, the agitators committed the assaults during the arrest of Luis Jesus Acosta-Gutierrez, a Venezuelan illegal alien accused of using his vehicle to ram into an ICE agent’s vehicle on Sunday.
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin provided details of the assault on ICE agents in the greater Chicago area in a social media post on Tuesday. The post included a video of a portion of the arrest that showed ICE agents attempting to leave the scene as a crowd of demonstrators shouted at the immigration officers, as one waved a Mexican flag.
According to McLaughlin, local police did not provide any help to the agents during the incident. A press release issued by DHS outlined the earlier pursuit of Acosta-Gutierrez after the suspected Tren de Aragua gang member allegedly rammed an ICE vehicle into a tree during an attempt to arrest him for being illegally present in the United States…