Support Our Heroes: Stand with Injured ICE Officers.
This campaign is managed by givetaxfree.org and it is a legitimate campaign for the benefit of injured ICE and CBP Officers.
Every day, brave men and women of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) put their lives on the line to protect our communities from dangerous criminals, human traffickers, and threats to national security. These dedicated officers face escalating dangers, with assaults skyrocketing in recent years. According to the Department of Homeland Security, from January 21, 2025, to January 7, 2026, ICE officers endured 238 assaults—a staggering 1,347% increase from the 19 assaults reported in the same period of 2024. This surge reflects the growing risks they encounter while enforcing our laws and keeping families safe.
Over the past few years, the toll has been heavy. In 2023 and 2024 combined, ICE and Border Patrol agents faced dozens of line-of-duty incidents, but 2025 marked a deadly turning point with assaults jumping dramatically. Independent analyses confirm a rise in charges for assaults on federal officers—often involving violent resistance during arrests. Tragically, since 2003, 92 ICE and Border Patrol agents have died in the line of duty, with causes ranging from vehicle accidents to health issues exacerbated by the job’s stresses. But for every fallen hero, countless more suffer life-altering injuries, facing medical bills, lost wages, and long recoveries without adequate support.
These aren’t just numbers—they’re real people with stories of courage and sacrifice, often clashing with the most depraved criminals who have evaded deportation despite serious convictions. Here are some of the most egregious examples of illegal immigrants with prior grave crimes who remained in the U.S. and went on to violently injure ICE officers:
Walter Leonel Perez Rodriguez (El Salvador) — A twice-deported convicted child predator whose rap sheet includes sexual assault of a child under 17, child fondling, multiple DUIs, and illegal re-entry. Despite these horrific sex crimes against children and prior deportations, he remained in the country. In November 2025 during an ICE enforcement operation in Houston, he brutally assaulted an ICE officer by striking him in the face with a metal coffee cup, causing a severe laceration to the officer’s lip requiring 13 stitches and burns to his face. This savage attack left the officer with lasting injuries from a man who had already preyed on the most vulnerable.
Diego Barron-Esquivel (Mexico) — A violent repeat offender with convictions including multiple counts of domestic battery, violation of protection orders, aggravated robbery, felony theft, criminal damage to property, criminal restraint, and more. He had been harassing his spouse relentlessly. In December 2025, during an ICE arrest, he violently punched an ICE officer and attempted to strangle him with his own badge cord, leading to a 20-year prison sentence for forcible assault on a federal officer. His long history of domestic violence and robbery made him a continued threat that should have been removed earlier.
Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala (Guatemala) — A convicted child sex offender with prior convictions for sexual abuse of a minor. Ordered removed but still illegally present, in June 2025 during a traffic stop in Bloomington, Minnesota, he dragged ICE Officer Jonathan Ross over 100 yards with his vehicle while fleeing, inflicting severe cuts to the officer’s arm and hand requiring over 30 stitches. Officer Ross heroically returned to duty despite the trauma.
Alexander Garcia Vargas (Guatemala) — Previously ordered deported during the prior administration but remained as a fugitive. In December 2025 in North Charleston, South Carolina, when ICE agents attempted to remove him from his vehicle, he resisted violently, accelerating and ramming two ICE vehicles, injuring at least one officer and causing significant damage in a reckless vehicular assault that endangered lives.
Silverio Villegas González (Mexico) — With prior convictions including assault and illegal re-entry. In September 2025 near Chicago in Franklin Park, he struck and dragged an ICE officer with his vehicle during resistance, part of the surging pattern of vehicular attacks on officers.
In January 2026 in Minneapolis, three individuals—including Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis—ambushed an ICE officer (name not publicly released for safety) during an arrest, beating him with a snow shovel and broom handle. The officer, fearing for his life, fired in self-defense and was hospitalized with serious injuries.
These officers—fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters—don’t seek glory; they seek to serve. Yet when injury strikes from encounters with such dangerous individuals, the physical, emotional, and financial burdens can be overwhelming.
That’s why we’re launching the ICE Heroes Fund on www.givetaxfree.org/ICEHeroes. All donations are tax-deductible up to the limits of the law, and your contributions go directly to injured ICE officers and their families, providing immediate relief for medical expenses, rehabilitation, and lost income. No bureaucracy, no middlemen—just direct support for those who stand on the front lines for us.
Imagine the difference your gift could make: Helping the Houston officer recover from the brutal facial burns and stitches inflicted by a child predator, or supporting Officers attacked and injured in the line of duty. These heroes risk everything—now it’s our turn to have their backs.
Donate today at www.givetaxfree.org/ICEHeroes. Every contribution honors their sacrifice and ensures they can heal and return stronger. Together, we can show our gratitude and keep America safe. Thank you for standing with our ICE officers.