The drama in the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, continued Wednesday as President Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown proceeds apace.
If a person is an illegal alien, they probably don’t want to get caught by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Customs and Border Protection, and are sometimes willing to go to extreme measures to prevent that from happening.
That’s what went down Wednesday morning in St. Paul as a suspect caused a dangerous pile-up when he hit the accelerator to escape, but ended up crashing into multiple cars instead. Luckily, no one was seriously injured, but they certainly could have been:
NEW — ICE officers in St. Paul, MN, were attempting to pull over Alexander Romero-Avila, an ILLEGAL ALIEN when he “began driving recklessly” & crashed “into multiple vehicles.”
DHS says that he received swift medical attention.
No one else was harmed.pic.twitter.com/AZTm5GeJtg
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 11, 2026
Of course, the anti-ICE crowd was quick to show up to blame the agency instead of the suspect (profanity alert):
The man was transported to a hospital in an ambulance covered by a sheet. A St. Paul Fire medic said the man asked to be covered for privacy. The injuries were “not serious, that’s all I can say,” the medic said. A woman whose airbag went off also went to the hospital; it was unclear whether she was injured.
Three cars were damaged. A crowd of people gathered at the scene, yelling “F*ck ICE” at over a dozen federal agents who had shown up after the crash.
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Following the crash, Romero-Avila, a Honduran national who entered the U.S. illegally in 2022, attempted to flee on foot, but failed.
Christopher Jones was standing outside smoking a cigarette when the cars sped by.
The man’s red Toyota Prius spun out of control as he came through the intersection and hit two cars before stopping when it hit a chunk of ice, Jones and Reader said. The man in the Prius, who Reader said looked to be a man in his 20s, shimmied out of his car window feet first and fled on foot, Reader said. Witnesses said the man looked to be Arab or Latino. Jones said he also saw the man get out of his car window and watched the man run and jump over a fence.
“I would be shocked if he was even incapacitated at the amount he was moving both when he got out of the vehicle and when I saw him in the back of the vehicle,” Reader said.
The federal agent got out of his car to pursue the man, Reader said.
The agent was able to run him down and apprehend him. Watch:
St. Paul eyewitness (woman, from her window): Illegal alien Alexander Romero-Avila crashes into multiple cars, climbs out window, jumps fence to escape ICE.
Agents nab him anyway.
Reckless flight due to a Biden release and had no concern for legal Americans. pic.twitter.com/OcIYILzBCx
— Kim “Katie” USA (@KimKatieUSA) February 11, 2026
Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the man put officers in danger, and it was a miracle that no one was killed:
“On February 11, ICE officers attempted to conduct a targeted vehicle stop of Alexander Romero-Avila, an illegal alien from Honduras RELEASED into the country by the Biden administration in 2022,” Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“In a dangerous attempt to resist arrest, this illegal alien tried to evade law enforcement and began driving recklessly and ran red lights, endangering public safety and law enforcement.”
Wonder if Romero-Avila will become the Left’s new hero? I wouldn’t bet against it.
Editor’s Note: Democrats are fanning the flames and raising the rhetoric by comparing ICE to the Gestapo, fascists, and secret police.
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