March 5, 2026

Heritage Foundation expert Lora Ries lauded the severe sentencing of illegal alien Jose Melgar-Rivas as “great news,” saying it sends a clear message.

The more than six-year prison sentencing of illegal alien Jose Melgar-Rivas for causing serious injuries to a federal officer by dragging him with his vehicle shows why the agent who shot activist Renee Good feared for his life, an expert told Fox News Digital.

 

Illegal alien Jose Melgar-Rivas was sentenced to over six years in federal prison for dragging a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer with his vehicle, causing serious injuries, a case hailed by Heritage Foundation expert Lora Ries as a powerful message against assaults on federal officers. The sentencing highlights a troubling rise in vehicular attacks on immigration agents, including a recent incident in Minnesota where ICE officer Jonathan Ross shot activist Renee Good in self-defense after she allegedly accelerated toward him. Ries emphasized that Melgar-Rivas’s sentencing is just one example of the ongoing violence faced by federal agents at the hands of illegal immigrants and agitators.

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