A Trump-appointed federal judge ripped federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for giving false sworn testimony and records to justify the violent mistaken-identity arrests of two men in the Bronx, one of whom was a U.S. citizen they mistook for an undocumented immigrant.

Long Island U.S. District Court Judge Gary Brown issued his fiery, 28-page ruling on Monday in the case of Dominican immigrant Angel Almonte, one of the two men arrested by the agents.

Brown called into question the agents' claim that they busted Almonte by mistake, since the man they said they were actually targeting was five inches shorter and 80 pounds lighter.

Masked ICE agents arrested Almonte and a second man, Jeury Concepcion, in separate caught-on-video rough take-downs on May 6 in the Bronx, on Decatur and Hull Aves. Concepcion, who was slammed to the ground by masked agents with guns out, is a U.S. citizen.

 Particularly problematic in this case, the evidence suggests that ICE attempted to support their unsupported misidentification argument through false or misleading documentation and testimony,  Brown wrote.  The claims of misidentification here prove baseless, the arrests were procedurally deficient and legally invalid, and ICE agents falsified official records trying to conceal their illegal actions, which included significant injury to a U.S. citizen. 

Three of the agents involved in the Almonte bust - Team Leader John Katepodis, Deportation Officer Kevin Brodowsky and Deportation Officer Zamir Yassin - gave  evasive and apparently perjurious testimony,  particularly when they claimed they witnessed Almonte engaged in hand-to-hand drug sales.

Their sworn statements  bear all the hallmarks of coordinated fabrication,  Brown said, pointing out that the allegations of drug dealing didn't show up in any documents or paperwork before Almonte's bail hearing.

After Almonte's arrest, ICE agents ginned up a fake arrest warrant after the fact, claiming that he showed up in ICE databases, Brown said.

That claim turned out to be false - Brenden Cuni, a Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer 

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