ICE head says agents facing 'constant impediments' after migrant seen ramming cars while trying to flee

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New video shows illegal immigrant allegedly trying to ram ICE agents with car.

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons discusses new video showing an illegal immigrant allegedly trying to ram ICE agents with a car in San Antonio, Texas on ‘Hannity.’

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons argued on Tuesday that federal immigration agents are facing "constant impediments" and "constant attacks" after newly released video showed an illegal alien ramming ICE vehicles with his car during an arrest operation in San Antonio, Texas.

The video shows the migrant, later identified by ICE as Robyn Argote Brooks, an illegal alien from Cuba, in a car ramming into vehicles that were blocking them in from the front and the back, as the individual attempted to evade arrest.

ICE agents were able to arrest Brooks following the attack, and he remains in ICE custody, the agency said. ICE said Brooks entered the U.S. in 2024 through the Biden administration’s CBP One app.

"One of our officers was injured in this vehicle attack and we are praying for him, his health, and his family. As sanctuary politicians have encouraged illegal aliens to evade arrest, they have created an environment that incites violence against our law enforcement," said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.

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A Cuban illegal alien was arrested by ICE after ramming a vehicle into agents during an attempted arrest. (Department of Homeland Security)

During an appearance on Fox News' "Hannity," Lyons was asked if rhetoric from Democrats criticizing ICE can be tied to incidents like these.

"When we hear elected officials calling upon individuals to impede or obstruct ICE law enforcement operations nationwide, you're going to see incidents like this," Lyons responded. "You saw the officers and agents attempting to apprehend a criminally illegal alien, and there they are using their car as a weapon."

Lyons said one of the agents went to a hospital with neck injuries after their vehicle was struck in the incident and confirmed the officer was injured when the suspect rammed a second ICE vehicle.

"Every day, this is what the men and women of ICE are facing," he claimed. "It's constant impediments, constant attacks like this. And it's not safe for my folks, it's not safe for the public. It really needs to stop."

He also purported that "criminal gangs" are organizing groups to impede or obstruct immigration enforcement operations.

New video shows a migrant in a car ramming into vehicles that were blocking them in from the front and the back, as the individual attempted to evade arrest. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

"It's a constitutional right to go out there and protest. But when you have organized criminal gangs, which these are, that are organizing these groups to, again, impede or obstruct law enforcement operations … that's a criminal act. I will tell you that Homeland Security investigations, my folks, the FBI, we're investigating these and people can be held accountable because you can't organize groups to go out and impede law enforcement. It's a criminal act, and we have to act swiftly to prevent this from spreading," he said.

ICE officials say the San Antonio incident comes amid a sharp rise in attacks on officers nationwide. 

From Jan. 21, 2025, through Jan. 7, 2026, ICE officers experienced 66 vehicular attacks, compared to just two during the same period the prior year, a 3,200% increase. Overall assaults against ICE officers are up more than 1,300%, according to the agency.

Lyons was also asked about recent comments from Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, who vowed to prosecute any ICE agent who commits unlawful acts during operations in the city while stressing that his threat does not apply to "honest, decent, moral" agents.

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Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said one of the agents went to a hospital with neck injuries after their vehicle was struck in the incident. (Christopher Dilts/Getty Images)

"The men and women of ICE, the men and women of HSI, they're not committing any crimes," Lyons argued. "So he doesn't have to worry about arresting any of my folks, because what we're doing is we're enforcing the law. We are out there every day making this nation and his city safe again. So he shouldn't worry about the men and women of ICE.

"What he should worry about is the sanctuary policies that have these criminal aliens go back to his neighborhoods and commit heinous crimes like fentanyl trafficking, human trafficking, rape of a child. He should focus on those and let law enforcement do law enforcement work."

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This comes on the heels of a recent incident in Minnesota, where Renee Nicole Good, a U.S. citizen, was fatally shot by masked ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who fired into the driver's windshield and open window from the side of the vehicle and subsequently exclaimed "f---ing b----" as the car crashed into another parked vehicle.

Democrats and local residents have condemned the shooting as a murder and called for Ross' prosecution, while the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers have defended the incident by arguing that it was a justified shooting.