DHS identifies illegal immigrants involved in second Minneapolis ICE shooting

MINNEAPOLIS (TNND) — Authorities have identified the individuals involved in Wednesday night’s attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent with a shovel — an incident that ended with one suspect being shot in the leg by the agent.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) blamed the Biden administration for allowing the three illegal immigrants into the country.

Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, who illegally entered the U.S. from Venezuela in August 2022, was the target of the ICE operation when he was shot in the leg, according to DHS. He was previously convicted of driving without a license and arrested on two counts of giving a false name to a peace officer.

Officials said he was released by Minnesota authorities before ICE could lodge a detainer against him.

Alfredo Alejandro Ajorna and Gabriel Alejandro Hernandez-Ledezma were identified as the two men who came out of a nearby apartment and attacked the ICE agent with a snow shovel and broom handle while he was trying to arrest Sosa-Celis, according to DHS.

Before the attack, the federal agent was in the process of arresting Sosa-Celis during a routine traffic stop when the illegal immigrant crashed his vehicle into another car and fled.

Fearing for his life and safety as he was ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired a defensive shot to defend his life,” DHS reported. “The initial subject was hit in the leg.

DHS officials accused Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz of “actively encouraging an organized resistance to ICE and federal law enforcement officers.”

Frey called the situation in the city “not sustainable” while saying the conduct from ICE is “intolerable.”

“And for anyone taking the bait tonight, stop. It is not helpful,” Frey wrote on X. “We cannot respond to Donald Trump’s chaos with our own chaos.”

President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act on Thursday and send more troops to Minneapolis if “the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E.”