Minnesota Criminal Illegal Immigrant Rams ICE Vehicle as Attacks on Federal Agents Skyrocket

When the Criminals Fight Back

There’s something deeply wrong when federal law enforcement officers can’t do their jobs without getting rammed by the very criminals they’re trying to arrest. That’s exactly what happened Saturday morning in St. Paul, Minnesota, when Tranquilino Sixto-Anorve, an illegal immigrant from Mexico with multiple DUI convictions, allegedly slammed his car into an ICE vehicle.

Let that sink in for a moment. This wasn’t a traffic accident. This was a deliberate attack on federal agents who were simply trying to remove a public safety threat from American streets.

Sixto-Anorve entered the United States illegally at some unknown time and place. Nobody knows when. Nobody knows where. That’s the immigration system working exactly as poorly as you’d expect when border security becomes an afterthought. What we do know is that he racked up multiple DUI convictions and became enough of a menace that ICE flagged him as a public safety threat requiring arrest.

The agents were doing their job. He responded by turning his vehicle into a weapon, striking not just the ICE vehicle but also a civilian car. Because when you’re already breaking laws left and right, what’s one more?

The Numbers Don’t Lie

Here’s where this story gets even worse. The Department of Homeland Security reported earlier this month that ICE officers are experiencing a 3,200 percent increase in vehicular attacks. You read that correctly. Not 32 percent. Not 320 percent. Three thousand, two hundred percent.

That’s not a trend. That’s an epidemic of violence against federal law enforcement.

ICE put it plainly in their statement: “This ramming highlights increased risks our brave men and women of ICE face amid hostile rhetoric and actions from anti-ICE agitators and politicians.” They’re not wrong. When you spend years demonizing immigration enforcement, when you treat ICE agents like they’re the villains instead of the people protecting communities from criminals, you create an environment where attacks like this become inevitable.

The hostile rhetoric matters. Words have consequences. When politicians and activists spend their days painting immigration enforcement as inherently evil, they give cover to people like Sixto-Anorve. They create a culture where attacking federal agents seems justified, even heroic.

Who’s Really Being Protected Here?

The irony is almost too much to bear. Anti-ICE protesters position themselves as defenders of the vulnerable. They claim moral authority. They wrap themselves in the language of compassion and human rights.

But who are they actually defending? In Minnesota alone, recent immigration sweeps have netted convicted pedophiles and sex predators. Video footage recently went viral showing an ICE agent explaining to agitators that they were disrupting the arrest of a child sex offender. The protesters didn’t care. They kept disrupting anyway.

This isn’t about protecting families seeking better lives. This is about obstructing the removal of dangerous criminals who have no right to be here in the first place.

Sixto-Anorve fit that category perfectly. Multiple DUI convictions mean multiple instances where he could have killed innocent Americans. Each time he got behind the wheel drunk, he gambled with other people’s lives. ICE identified him correctly as a public safety threat. They moved to arrest him. He responded with violence.

The agents involved could have been seriously injured or killed. The civilian whose car was struck could have been hurt. All because one criminal illegal immigrant decided federal law didn’t apply to him.

What Happens Next

Sixto-Anorve is now in ICE custody, which is exactly where he belongs. With any luck, he’ll be deported and barred from ever returning. But that’s just one case. One arrest. One dangerous individual removed from American streets.

The broader problem remains. The 3,200 percent increase in vehicular attacks on ICE agents isn’t going away until the hostile environment around immigration enforcement changes. Federal agents shouldn’t need to worry about being attacked while doing their jobs. They shouldn’t have to navigate crowds of agitators actively working to help criminals escape.

The solution isn’t complicated. Enforce the law. Support the people enforcing it. Stop treating immigration enforcement like it’s optional or immoral. When ICE targets someone with multiple DUI convictions, that’s not cruelty. That’s basic public safety.

Every American deserves to live in a country where laws mean something and where the people tasked with enforcing those laws can do so without being turned into targets themselves. That’s not radical. That’s just common sense.

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