Illegal immigrants in Madison beat and stab man with ‘brutality’: complaint

David Gonzalez-Benitez and Paulino Rivera are both being held as ICE detainers at the Dane County Jail. They are accused of beating and stabbing a man almost to death outside a bar. The victim had cuts all over her body, including her liver, and was left to die in a parking lot, the criminal complaint states.

Every day, from September 25th until the presidential election, we’ll tell you about a non-citizen currently in a Wisconsin prison, accused of committing a terrible crime. ICE has housed immigration detainees on each of them. We highlight a number of serious crimes.

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The defendants: David Gonzalez-Benitez and Paulino Rivera

Charges: (Attempted under CCAP) First Degree Intentional Murder (for each defendant). Sentencing in February.

Previous Wisconsin cases: Gonzalez-Benitez, operating without a valid license in 2021 (expiry)
Rivera: None

Details: The allegations involved stabbing and beating attacks outside a bar in Madison. The victim survived but was seriously injured.

The criminal complaint alleges the following:

The officer was dispatched to Antler’s Tavern in the Town of Madison at 1:43 a.m. on August 19, 2023 for a disturbance. The caller observed “two guys beating up another guy in the parking lot” for about two minutes.

The officer saw a man, later identified by a Mexican consular ID card, lying on his side. He suffered significant injuries. Several players had their jerseys torn in the upper chest area. There was a gash below his belly button about an inch in diameter. The officer saw six more cuts.

“As Officer Heche MLB took off his shirt, he noticed that the most noticeable cuts on his torso were the ones he immediately noticed on his belly button
and one near his front left armpit area. There was also a significant laceration on MLB’s left side
Chest area,” the complaint states, describing the victim’s injuries.

The victim also had significant facial injuries, including swollen eyes, nose and mouth. Two pieces of his teeth were on the front of his chest. A six-inch laceration on his left wrist and blood near his head were repaired. He was actively bleeding.

He was breathing slowly and had a very weak pulse, but the officer applied a tourniquet and sought medical attention. The victim’s mouth was significantly swollen and his condition was life-threatening as he had a laceration to his liver and significant lacerations to his chest.

Police spoke to a shaking witness about the trauma. He said he was a bartender and as he was closing the bar he saw people in the parking lot. He saw two men beating another man who was lying on the ground. He started recording. He waited until they left to call 911. He said two of the subjects assaulted the victim while a third rifled through the victim’s pockets.

A suspect hit the victim with a clenched fist. A man in a gray shirt struck the victim 15 to 20 times, mostly in the head. They were not patrons.

He said the suspects “were also brutal and just beat him up.” He said it looked like they had beaten him to death with “non-stop brutality.” Officers followed a trail of blood drops to an apartment complex.

David Gonzalez-Benitez responded and presented a Wisconsin driver’s license. A second suspect, Paulino Rivera, also identified by his Wisconsin driver’s license, was arrested and charged.

Rivera spoke primarily Spanish. He had a laceration on his head. Gonzalez Beneitz had a wound on his shoulder. He gave a false date of birth and they needed a Spanish speaking officer. He said he did not want to comment.

Gonzalez-Benitez later changed his mind and issued a statement. He stated that he was at the bar with Rivera. “Gonzalez Benitez stated that he was speaking to an American, while Rivera was speaking to another Hispanic man he did not know. Gonzalez Benitez said he didn’t speak English but cheered and toasted with the American and drank about five beers. Rivera and the male. . . Gonzalez Benitez stated he went outside to smoke and when he returned, the bartender kicked people out because it was closing time.”

Gonzalez Benitez said when he came outside he felt something hit him in the back, but he did
don’t fall down. Gonzalez Benitez said he continued to walk away. He said the fight started with a video call that Rivera made. He claimed he had never seen the victim before.

Gonzalez Benitez “admitted there were stab wounds, but his intention was to leave the MLB.”
gone.” He claimed Rivera had the knife.

Jail: Dane County Jail

Date of offense: August 19, 2023

Country of origin:

ICE Inmate: Issued 9/1/23

Criminal complaint:

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ICE detainees pounce under Biden-Harris

Illegal immigrants committing crimes is not a story the corporate media and Vice President Kamala Harris want to tell, especially given the increase in border crossings.

Under Biden/Harris, the number of U.S. Border Patrol “encounters with migrants entering the United States from Mexico in December 2023” reached “the highest monthly total ever,” according to the Pew Research Center.

According to Trac Immigration, a project at Syracuse University, the Biden administration released nearly 300,000 detainees from 2021 to the first quarter of 2024, a number that is increasing. However, “overall, 50 percent more ICE detainees were released during the Trump presidency (FY 2017 – FY 2020),” says Trac.

Detainees “are critical to ICE identifying and ultimately removing criminal aliens currently in federal, state or local custody,” ICE says. ICE detainees ask local law enforcement to hold a noncitizen detainee for 48 hours before releasing them into the community so ICE can pick them up.

Detainees are only those people that ICE discovers and decides to take action on. Some jails, such as Dane County’s, do not honor all ICE detainees and do not give ICE 48 hours to collect inmates before release. At the other end of the spectrum is a jail like Waukesha County, where the sheriff received federal immigration authority through a program called 287g.

ICE detainees “are often used as an indicator of the intensity of what is referred to as ‘internal enforcement,’ as opposed to ‘enforcement at the border,'” Trac writes.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “has long maintained that detainers, often called ‘immigration holds,’ are an essential tool for detaining and deporting individuals who are ineligible to remain in the United States,” the website says . “The detainees should be targeted at non-citizens who have committed crimes here in the United States.”

In addition, the US Border Patrol arrested more than 15,000 criminal non-citizens in 2024 alone, including 27 murderers and 202 people for sexual offenses. But those are just the people they catch.

From 2006 to 2023, ICE arrested more than 14,000 non-citizens living in Wisconsin, Trac says.

Biden-Harris’s first year saw the lowest number of ICE detainees since at least 2006. Milwaukee and Dane County jails released the most ICE detainees of any jurisdiction in Wisconsin over the following period, according to Trac.

The corporate media tends to focus on studies that show illegal immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than noncitizens, or they focus primarily on the other side of the coin — say, illegal immigrants whose labor helps keep dairy farms afloat . The citizens who committed crimes had a right to be here; Illegal immigrants did not do this. Stricter border policies might have prevented illegal immigration crime from occurring in the first place. The stories are worth telling.

“Although no federal law requires cooperation with ICE, many state and local laws and sometimes court rulings regulate compliance with ICE detainees,” says the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. Some states have mandated compliance, but Wisconsin is not one of them.

“Legally, the probable cause requirement means that ICE can only impose an arrest on (a) a noncitizen who (b) is already ‘removable.'” A deportable noncitizen is someone who is subject to removal proceedings for possible deportation can be initiated,” says the center.

“ICE describes an arrestee as a request for a law enforcement agency to notify ICE before a removable person is released from custody and to maintain custody of the non-citizen for a short period of time so that ICE can assume custody of that person.” says Trac.