A federal law-enforcement agency is demanding a change in tone after an officer was injured in the Midwest.
As reported by The Gateway Pundit, the Department of Homeland Security announced the arrest of an illegal alien from Mexico after he allegedly intentionally ran over and dragged an ICE agent in suburban Chicago, sending the officer to the hospital. According to DHS, on November 10, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Chicago pulled over Jose Juan Garnica-Naranjo during a targeted enforcement operation in Chicago Heights.
Garnica-Naranjos criminal history includes prior arrests for assault and domestic violence. DHS said he has been deported from the United States seven times, all in 2013, and that he illegally re-entered the country at an unknown date and location.
After officers ordered him to shut off his engine, he refused to comply. Officers then attempted to remove him from the vehicle, but instead he sped away while an ICE officer was still partially inside the vehicle through the driver-side door.
Garnica-Naranjo drove over a median, and the officer was thrown from the vehicle before being struck by the vehicle as Garnica-Naranjo fled the scene. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said, This illegal alien used his vehicle to assault one of our ICE officers, hospitalizing the officer.
Thankfully, the officer has since been released from the hospital. This illegal aliens prior criminal history includes assault and domestic violence, Mullin said. This is just the latest example of the staggering rise in anti-ICE violence, with our officers facing a more than 1,600% increase in assaults against them.
This is the result of anti-ICE rhetoric from sanctuary politicians like Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, he said. DHS is calling on Governor Pritzker and all other sanctuary politicians to knock off this violent rhetoric and start cooperating with ICE before any more officers are injured in the line of duty.
DHS further said that under Pritzker, Illinois has become a hotbed of illegal alien crime. The department pointed to a series of recent cases in the state that, in its account, show the pattern.
In August, ICE arrested Hamed Mohammed Hamed Alsaidi, an illegal alien from Jordan, after he had been arrested for having eight Molotov cocktails in his possession in Mokena, Illinois. He had been released by sanctuary politicians in Will County who refused to honor ICEs detainer, and ICE arrested him two days later.
In June, ICE lodged a detainer for Janio Gionel Velasquez-Muro, an illegal alien from Venezuela, after he was arrested for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl in Kane County, Illinois. That same month, ICE arrested Giovanna Mercedes Moreno Occhipinti, an illegal alien from Venezuela and a former teacher, for her involvement in a Tren de Aragua mass shooting in December 2024 that killed three people and injured several others at a house party in Chicago.
In March, ICE lodged a detainer for Jose Medina-Medina, an illegal alien from Venezuela, after he was arrested for shooting and killing 18-year-old Loyola College student Sheridan Gorman in Chicago. In October 2025, the agency lodged a detainer for Leyter Jeferson Arauz-Medina, an illegal alien from Nicaragua, after his arrest for raping a 54-year-old woman in Chicago, and that same month arrested Radule Bojovic, an illegal alien from Montenegro, who was working as a sworn police officer with the Hanover Park Police Department.
In September 2025, ICE lodged a detainer for Jose Javier Coronado-Meza, an illegal alien from Venezuela, after he was arrested for killing a man execution-style and then burying his body in concrete in Cook County, Illinois. In July 2025, ICE arrested Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, an illegal alien from Mexico, after he was released by sanctuary politicians in Lake County, despite being arrested for hiding the body of 37-year-old Megan Bos on his property.
In January 2025, Julio Cucul-Bol, an illegal alien from Guatemala, caused a drunk-driving crash that killed 20-year-old Katie Abraham in Urbana, Illinois. He now faces charges of leaving the scene of a crash resulting in death, aggravated driving under the influence resulting in death, and reckless homicide, and Operation Midway Blitz was launched in September 2025 in her honor.
The officer struck this week has been released from the hospital, according to Mullin. The open questions are whether Illinois officials will change how they cooperate with ICE, and whether the secretarys demand that sanctuary politicians knock off this violent rhetoric produces any change in Springfield.
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