TWIN CITIES, Minn. — Four days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good, federal agents in St. Paul constrained the airflow to a man’s neck until he became unconscious.
Orbin Mauricio Henríquez Serrano, a Honduran national, was at a Speedway on Sunday afternoon when a dozen masked Border Patrol officers suddenly swarmed his vehicle. They demanded he roll down his window and show his papers. When he didn’t comply, they shattered the window and dragged him out, pressing him against the ground until his body went limp. They carried him into a dark, unmarked van and drove away.
Watching the video of his arrest on Monday, his sister Consuelo was sure he was dead. It wasn’t until a day later that she could confirm he had survived – and that he’d been sent to an infamous detention tent camp in Texas. She told HuffPost she was able to speak to him for “a few seconds” over the phone.
“He only managed to tell me that he is very injured,” she said. A friend who helped set up a GoFundMe page for the family shared photos with HuffPost showing the aftermath of the incident ― Serrano’s car, windows busted out, sitting in a suburban driveway.
In the week since Good was killed, federal agents have continued to pour into Minnesota. The state calls it an “invasion.” The Trump administration has deployed a massive amount of force to Minneapolis — 800 Border Patrol and 2,000 Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers, amounting to five times the headcount of the Minneapolis police force. President Donald Trump has threatened even more by invoking the Insurrection Act, which would send the U.S. military to police the streets. On Wednesday night, federal agents shot a man in the leg during what they said was an immigration enforcement operation.
