From the Daily Caller: An illegal migrant will be spending decades in prison after punching and strangling an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent.
Diego Barron-Esquivel, a criminal illegal migrant from Mexico, was sentenced to two decades in federal prison for violently assaulting and choking out an ICE agent earlier this year in Wichita, Kansas, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) exclusively shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. The sentence — which was the maximum penalty allowed — follows unprecedented violence against immigration officers.
“This barbaric criminal illegal alien with a rap sheet a mile long, violently punched one of our officers in the face and head and then began strangling the officer with his own badge cord,” Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a prepared statement. “Our officers are facing a 1150% increase in violence against them as they arrest the worst of the worst.”
“Secretary Noem has been clear: if you lay a hand on law enforcement, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” McLaughlin said.
The violent incident happened in Wichita on February 28 as two ICE agents were apprehending Barron-Esquivel. He managed to flee the ICE agents, but local police later arrested him.
Barron-Esquivel reportedly entered the US at an unknown date. His crime record includes arrests for domestic battery, aggravated robbery, felony theft, possession of drug paraphernalia, damage to property, molestation of an automobile and other criminal activity.
In a statement on X, DHS announced: “Diego Barron-Esquivel, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for violently assaulting and strangling an @ICEgov officer in Wichita, Kansas. He violently punched one of the officers in the face and head, escalating to strangling the officer with his own badge cord. The officer almost passed out before he successfully broke the badge cords.”
“Thank you to the brave law enforcement officers who risk their lives every day to arrest and deport the WORST OF THE WORST.”
Secretary Noem has been clear: if you lay a hand on law enforcement, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Diego Barron-Esquivel, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for violently assaulting and strangling an… pic.twitter.com/4pC5tajgmn
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) December 15, 2025
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