ICE agents face obstruction from California medical staff while arresting illegal immigrants
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Staff at a California surgical center was filmed on video trying to block Immigration and customs enforcement An agent who arrested a Honduras landscape gardener this week tells federal officers, “You don’t even have a warrant for him.”
The tense scene unfolded Tuesday at the Ontario Advanced Sledge Centre, about 30 miles east of Los Angeles.
“I’ll take my hand from him,” you can hear one of the staff members with the blue scrub saying they’re protecting the man from immigration agents. “Let him go. You need to go outside.”
Ministry of Homeland Security In X, an ICE official said “we carried out a targeted enforcement activity to arrest two illegal aliens,” and “the clearly marked ice bulletproof vest officer approached the illegal alien target as he left the vehicle.”
On Tuesday, July 8th, staff will be seen trying to get in the way of ice agents trying to arrest a Honduras landscaper at Ontario High Surgery Center in California. (Inland Federation for Immigrant Justice/AP)
“One of the illegal aliens, Dennis Gillen Solis from Honduras, fled on foot to avoid law enforcement. He added, he went near an Advanced Surgery Centre in Ontario, where hospital staff assaulted law enforcement and drugs and attacked illegal aliens at the facility.”
“Then staff locked the doors and tried to block the arrest by law enforcement blocking the move, and even called officers who claimed there was a ‘trick’,” Homeland Security also said.
Javier Hernandez, executive director of the Inland Coalition of Immigration Justice, told The Associated Press that agents eventually arrested a Honduras man after a video-shot-in-the-public struggle within the clinic.
The Department of Homeland Security said: “Staff tried to block arrests by locking doors and blocking law enforcement moves, and even called police who claimed there was a “trick.” (Inland Federation for Immigrant Justice/AP)
Hernandez added that the man is sending money to Honduras to help his mother with dialysis treatment.
This incident is one of the latest A series of growing conflicts With federal immigration officers.
In another incident on Tuesday, Protesters were seen clashing Ice Agent wields the baton outside the San Francisco immigration court.
Ice agents are seen trying to detain immigrants in Ontario, California on Tuesday, July 8th, 2025. (Inland Federation for Immigrant Justice/AP)
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Protesters also clashed with federal authorities on Thursday in an immigration operation in northern Los Angeles on a marijuana farm that allegedly employs illegal immigrants.
Fox News Digital’s Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Louis Casiano and the Associated Press contributed to this report.