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The U.S. Department of Justice is charging two staff members at an Ontario surgical clinic who made national headlines in mid-July when they confronted immigration agents in their clinic.

On July 8, Ontario Advanced Surgery Center staff demanded to see identification and a warrant from an armed and masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who had followed Denis Guillen-Solis, a Honduran immigrant, into the Ontario Advanced Surgery Center.

“Get your hands off of him. You don’t even have a warrant,” one staff member, shielding the man from an immigration agent, is heard saying on viral video of the confrontation. “Let him go. You need to get out.”

In a social media post, the Department of Homeland Security wrote that Guillen-Solis had been the focus of a targeted search and that clinic staff had assaulted law enforcement officers.

On Friday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced charges against clinic employees Jose de Jesus Ortega, 38, of Highland, and Danielle Nadine Davila, 33, of Corona. Each is charged with assaulting a federal officer and conspiracy to prevent a federal officer from discharging his duties by force and intimidation. Ortega was arrested Friday morning but law enforcement officers were still looking for Davila at the time the charges were announced.

“The illegal alien arrested inside the surgery center was not a patient,” U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said in a statement issued by the office. “He ran inside for cover and these defendants attempted to block his apprehension by assaulting our agents. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you work, if you assault our agents or otherwise interfere with our operations, you will be arrested and charged with a federal crime.”

Ontario Advanced Surgery Center could not be reached for comment on Friday. An automated phone message at midday said it was after working hours for the clinic.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, a pair of ICE officers were conducting “roving immigration-related operations” in Ontario on July 8 in an unmarked vehicle. The officers reportedly followed three adult men in a truck when the vehicle made a quick turn into the parking lot of Ontario Advanced Surgery Center. Two of the truck’s passengers fled on foot as officers approached the vehicle, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

Guillen-Solis was “partially detained” near the clinic’s front entrance before he pulled away from an officer, reportedly causing him and the officer to fall to the ground. A medical staff member allegedly then helped Guillen-Solis up off the ground and the officer followed him into the clinic.

Davila wedged herself between the officer and Guillen-Solis and pushed the officer, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, telling the officer to “let him go” and to “get out.” Ortega reportedly grabbed the officer’s arm and his vest.

If convicted on all charges, Ortega and Davila face a maximum of eight years in federal prison for assault and up to six years for conspiracy.

As of midday Friday, Guillen-Solis was being held in the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, according ICE’s Online Detainee Locator System. No further information about his case is available through the agency’s website.

ICE defines detainees as criminals if they have previously been convicted of a crime or if they’ve been charged with one. But according to ICE’s own data, as of July 7, fewer than 30% of Californians in ICE detention are considered criminals. At the Adelanto center, that number rises to 69%. It is not known whether Guillen-Solis is considered a criminal, by ICE’s definition.

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Leon apologized for the remarks at the council’s July 1 meeting.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2024, about 68.3% of Ontario residents identify as Hispanic or Latino.

On Monday, ICE agents reportedly detained three people at a Stater Bros. grocery store at North San Antonio Avenue and West Holt Boulevard in Ontario.

Essayli served as an assistant U.S. attorney from 2014 to 2018 before representing Corona in the California Assembly from 2022 through April 2025, when he was picked by President Donald Trump to serve as U.S. attorney for Southern California. Although Essayli had a high profile for antagonizing the Democratic supermajority and introducing Make America Great Again-style legislation, he got little done in Sacramento.

Over the past two years, Essayli was the only member of the California Legislature unable to get a bill signed into law, according to data compiled from the official California Legislative Information website. The average legislator saw 12 of their bills signed. Republicans in the Democrat-dominated Legislature got an average of eight bills signed.

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