Migrant suffers horrific and life-changing injury 'while trying to flee from ICE'
A migrant says he was struck by a train and lost his arm after being chased by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
Jesús González said that he was returning to his home in Compton, California after working overtime hours at his construction job when he was alerted about the presence of immigration officers in La Mirada on June 11.
The 31-year-old native of Veracruz, Mexico decided to avoid being arrested and got off the bus when he saw the ICE agents near the intersection of Alondra Boulevard and Stage Road.
'But I ran into them at a 7-Eleven,' González said in a video that was posted to his sister's TikTok earlier this week.
'There were three patrol cars. I kept walking, and another person ran, and I kept walking. And as I kept walking, they sounded [the siren] at me.'
Fearing that he would be arrested for being in the US illegally, González ran away from the agents and headed towards the railroad tracks, where he was struck by an oncoming train.
'Unfortunately, I lost my arm, and those ICE people saw me and left,' González said. 'When I went out onto the street, I didn't see anyone. My vision was very blurry.'
González, whose wife and two children are in Mexico, recalled meeting a local resident, who helped him get medical attention.
'Unfortunately, I had already lost my arm,' he said.
González warned undocumented immigrants to be vigilant of their surroundings and to only leave their homes if it is deemed necessary.
'Well, they're grabbing people, and unfortunately, they didn't grab me because they saw me lying down,' he said. 'Maybe they thought I was dead. Well, unfortunately not. I stood up and fought for my life to get ahead because I have two children.'
González appeared to take a direct jab at President Donald Trump, who often has referred to undocumented immigrants as criminals.
'To every fellow countryman, to every brother from a different country, we must stand together,' he said. 'United, we will never be defeated because we came here with one goal: to work, to excel, and to achieve our dreams. We are not criminals.'
When contacted by DailyMail.com regarding González's allegations, an ICE spokesperson replied in an email: 'We can confirm this is not an ICE incident.'
González's brush with the immigration agents came just days after a series of raids sparked clashes between local residents, federal agents and the police in Los Angeles.
Trump responded by dispatching 4,000 National Guard troops against the wishes of California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Newson filed a lawsuit challenging Trump's deployment, but a three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allowed Trump to remain in control of California's National Guard.
Newsom announced on X that he was poised to pursue his challenge.
'The president is not a king and is not above the law,' he said. 'We will press forward with our challenge to President Trump's authoritarian use of U.S. military soldiers against our citizens.'
Trump celebrated the court's decision in a post on Truth Social.
'This is a great decision for our country and we will continue to protect and defend law-abiding Americans,' he said.
'This is much bigger than Gavin, because all over the United States, if our cities, and our people, need protection, we are the ones to give it to them should state and local police be unable, for whatever reason, to get the job done.'
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