DHS and ICE finally named names in the Minneapolis ambush. Their target: Julio Cesar Sosa‑Celis, a Venezuelan illegal who crossed into the U.S. in August 2022, right under Biden’s watch. He already had a conviction for driving without a license and two arrests for giving false names to police. On January 14, just before 7 p.m. in north Minneapolis, federal agents moved in for a targeted traffic stop on Sosa‑Celis as part of an immigration sweep.
Sosa-Celis did what these imported criminals do when they sense weakness. He ran. According to DHS, he sped off, crashed into a parked car, then ditched the vehicle and bolted through the neighborhood on foot. An ICE agent chased him down, caught him, and tried to make the arrest. That’s when Sosa-Celis turned and attacked, fighting the officer on the ground.
The fight turned into a three-on-one ambush. As the agent wrestled Sosa-Celis on the pavement, two more Venezuelan illegals burst out of a nearby apartment and joined the attack. DHS named them: Alfredo Alejandro Ajorna and Gabriel Alejandro Hernandez-Ledezma. Armed with a snow shovel and a broom handle, they battered the officer while he was still tangled up with Sosa-Celis. Once the two jumped in, Sosa-Celis broke free, grabbed a weapon himself, and joined in beating the downed agent as all three closed in.
The officer had no choice but to shoot to survive. DHS said the agent, fearing for his life as three men ambushed him, fired a shot that hit Sosa-Celis in the leg and broke up the attack. All three Venezuelans ran back into the apartment and barricaded themselves, sparking a short standoff before ICE and backup moved in and took them down. By the next day, all three were in federal custody. DHS officials made it clear: this was the second ICE‑involved shooting in Minneapolis in a week, and the surge in attacks on federal agents traces straight back to the Biden years that let these men in.