A federal grand jury in the Central District of California has indicted two medical workers for allegedly assaulting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a July 8 immigration enforcement operation at the Ontario Advanced Surgical Center in San Bernardino County. Jose de Jesus Ortega, 38, of Highland, and Danielle Nadine Davila, 33, of Corona, are charged with one felony count each under 18 U.S.C. §111, which covers assaulting, resisting or impeding a federal officer. The statute carries a maximum sentence of eight years in prison when physical contact is involved. According to Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, ICE agents wearing clearly marked vests approached two Honduran nationals outside the clinic. One of the targets, Denis Guillen-Solis, fled into the facility, where Ortega and Davila allegedly pulled the officer and the migrant inside, locked the doors and blocked law-enforcement vehicles before local police were called on claims of a kidnapping. Both defendants were arrested in late July and will now stand trial in U.S. District Court. The incident, portions of which were captured on widely circulated videos, has intensified debate over how California health-care providers should respond when federal immigration agents appear at medical facilities.
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