FOX NEWS: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) captured two illegal immigrants who escaped custody after allegedly choking a female Border Patrol agent.
Juan Carmen Pardon Mendez, 29, and Juan Carlos Padron Barron, 23, both from Mexico, have been “taken back into custody and will be criminally prosecuted to the fullest extent allowed under the law,” according to ICE’s Houston office.
ICE said both men “escaped from custody on Sept. 22 in Conroe, Texas, after one of them was able to get out of [his] restraints and choked a female Border Patrol agent who was transferring them to the Montgomery Processing Center.”
“It is sickening that another law enforcement officer has been needlessly harmed as a direct result of the continued demonization of legitimate law enforcement activities by political leaders and certain members of the media,” ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations acting Field Office Director Gabriel Martinez said in a statement.
“Every time they label the brave men and women who work for ICE, CBP, or Border Patrol as Nazis or bounty hunters, they might as well paint a bright target on their backs because attacks like this are inevitable and will continue to occur,” he added.
Both suspects were captured Tuesday with help from law enforcement partners, ICE said.
