A pair of illegal Mexican immigrants nabbed at the US border in Texas broke free after trying to strangle a female border agent — only to be nabbed nearby by quick-thinking immigration authorities.

The drama unfolded Monday, when the two migrants — Juan Carmen Padron Mendez, 29, and Juan Carlos Padron Barron, 23 — were picked up trying to enter the country illegally and taken into custody, the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Texas said.

The migrants were placed in plastic flexicuffs and put in the back of the unnamed border agent’s squad car to be transferred to a holding facility in Houston — when things went south. 4

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The officer was stopped at a red light when she heard a seatbelt unbuckling, and soon had Mendez wrapping his hands around her neck and choking

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