ICE Agent Hospitalized After Illegal Immigrant Rams Vehicle During Arrest

An ICE officer lies in a hospital bed this week after an illegal immigrant from Peru allegedly rammed his vehicle into him during what should have been a routine arrest in Manahawkin, New Jersey. The agent discharged his weapon during the attack. The suspect, Friedrich Castillo-Ormeno, fled the scene and remains at large.

Let that sink in for a moment. A federal law enforcement officer, doing his job, gets run down by someone who shouldn’t even be in this country. And now that suspect is running free somewhere in New Jersey while the FBI and local authorities scramble to track him down.

Here’s the part that’ll make your blood boil. Castillo-Ormeno was released into the United States under the Biden administration. An immigration judge issued him a final deportation order on January 30. So we had him. We knew he needed to go. We had the legal authority to remove him. And yet here we are, with an injured officer and a fugitive on the loose.

The numbers tell a story that the mainstream media won’t touch. ICE reports a 3,300 percent increase in vehicle attacks against their officers. Not a typo. Three thousand, three hundred percent. These aren’t random incidents or statistical anomalies. This is a pattern of violence against federal agents who are simply trying to enforce the laws that Congress passed and the President is sworn to uphold.

I spoke with ICE officers back in November who described what they’re facing on the ground. One agent sat across from me with 13 stitches in his upper lip and second-degree burns across his body. A pedophile he was trying to arrest had thrown a metal cup full of scalding coffee directly into his face. Another officer was still being evaluated for nerve damage and a possible bone fracture after being hit by an illegal immigrant driver.

These are the men and women enforcing our immigration laws. They’re not asking for medals or parades. They’re asking to go home to their families without being burned, hit, or run over.

The agent with the coffee burns said something that stuck with me. “Everything we’ve always trained for, now we’re actually having to put into motion. The public, they’ve never seen us do our job, so now that we are actually doing it, people are taking matters into their own hands.”

Think about that statement. For years, immigration enforcement was essentially on autopilot, catch and release, paperwork and promises to appear in court that nobody kept. Now that officers are actually doing the job they were hired to do, they’re facing unprecedented violence. And when they defend themselves, they become the villains.

Look at what happened in Minneapolis in January. An ICE officer fatally shot anti-ICE activist Renee Good after she allegedly blocked the street with her car, keeping officers from entering for several minutes. When agents asked her to exit the vehicle, she put the car in reverse and moved toward an officer who appeared to take a hit. The officer defended himself. And what happened next? Weeks of protests. Hundreds of federal immigration officers pulled out of the city.

So let me get this straight. Officers get attacked, they defend themselves, and they’re the ones who have to retreat?

This isn’t about compassion or cruelty. It’s about the rule of law. Friedrich Castillo-Ormeno had a deportation order. That means an immigration judge, following due process, determined he needed to leave the country. Instead, he allegedly tried to kill a federal agent and disappeared into the wind.

How many more officers need to end up in hospitals before we acknowledge what’s happening here? How many more suspects with final deportation orders need to assault law enforcement before we admit that the current system isn’t working?

The Biden administration released Castillo-Ormeno into the country. That’s a policy choice. Someone made that decision. And now an ICE officer is recovering from injuries while the person who allegedly hurt him is still out there somewhere.

You know what’s really going on here? We’ve created a system where immigration enforcement has become optional, where deportation orders are treated as suggestions, where attacking federal agents is met with protests against the agents themselves. That’s not immigration policy. That’s chaos dressed up as compassion.