'Get Your Hands Off Him': Masked ICE Agents Chase Man To California Surgical Centre, Detains Him

Last Updated:July 11, 2025, 13:53 IST

Recently, ICE has been detaining migrants more publicly, including going into immigration courts and workplaces to cuff people and take them away.

Screengrab of viral video

In a dramatic turn of events that took place in a Southern California surgical center. A Honduran landscaper was chased by the masked federal immigration agents seeking to detain him. A tense confrontation unfolded as medical staff demanded documentation from the officers.

A video of the incident that took place at the Ontario Advanced Surgery Center has gone viral online. It shows Ontario Advanced Surgery Center staff in blue scrubs telling an armed US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent wearing a mask and bulletproof vest to let go of the man, who is crying and gasping for breath.

“Get your hands off of him. You don’t even have a warrant," says one staff member, shielding the man from an immigration agent. “Let him go. You need to get out," he said, as per a report by the Associated Press.

Recently, ICE has been detaining migrants more publicly, including going into immigration courts and workplaces to cuff people and take them away.

DHS (which oversees ICE) claims agents were trying to arrest two specific men who were in the US illegally when one of them—a 30-year-old Honduran landscaper—ran into a private surgery center in Ontario to escape.

Clinic staff intervened, demanded a warrant, and shielded him. DHS says the staff “assaulted" officers; however, the staff and witnesses say they simply insisted on seeing proper documents.

Javier Hernandez, executive director of the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, later confirmed that ICE eventually detained the Honduran man.

Hernandez praised the medical staff for their courage in standing up for basic rights, like asking for proper legal documentation. He expressed deep concern over the increasing frequency and intensity of these arrests, saying, “There are so many videos now… it’s getting harder because the tactics are getting more violent," according to an AP report.

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