BOSTON: Mexico’s top official in Boston on Friday condemned an attack earlier in the week on a 58-year-old Mexican citizen who two Massachusetts brothers urinated on and then beat because he appeared to be a homeless undocumented immigrant.

The brothers, 38-year-old Scott Leader and 30-year-old Steve Leader, were arrested and ordered held without bail on Wednesday while they await trial on charges including assault and battery, for the purpose of intimidation because of national origin.

“We condemn this attack,” said Daniel Hernandez Joseph, the consul general of Mexico in Boston. “It is doubtlessly a horrible incident, a horrible attack and I am sure and I trust that the authorities will take all appropriate legal action.”

The men told police they targeted their victim because they believed he was an undocumented immigrant. According to a police report, they told arresting officers, “Donald Trump was right, all these illegals need to be deported.”

Trump, the New York real estate developer and former reality TV star, has catapulted to the front of the pack of candidates seeking the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, driven in part by promises to deport all undocumented immigrants and order the construction of a wall along the US-Mexico border.

Trump told reporters in New Hampshire that he had not heard of the attack but that he regarded it as a “shame.”