Man hospitalized after violent federal immigration arrest in Melrose Park, family says

A man was hospitalized and remains in federal custody after being arrested by immigration agents in suburban Melrose Park on Sunday morning, his family told the Tribune. As of Sunday evening, they had not been allowed to see him, and they had received no updates on his condition.

Videos shared on social media show Ricardo Aguayo Rodriguez, 53, struggling on the ground, lying next to a white truck, while a federal agent kept him in a headlock.

“Por favor, amigo,” he can be heard pleading as he groans and yells in pain. “Please, friend.”

The Department of Homeland Security could not be immediately reached for comment.

Dora Suane, his older sister, told the Tribune in Spanish that two agents were standing guard outside his room when she arrived at Loyola Medicine’s Gottlieb Memorial Hospital. They wouldn’t let her in, but she caught a glance from the doorway and saw her brother in bed, with bandages on his face and head.

“They didn’t even say anything to us,” she said.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/02/melrose-park-immigration-injury/

A man who has been here, presumably legally, since the 1980s....