In Austin, a Venezuelan immigrant working as a delivery driver was shot in the back of the neck by ICE agents during a pursuit he did not recognize as a law enforcement operation, and now lies hospitalized at the center of a deeper contest: whether the state may remove the very witness it needs to account for its own use of force. The case surfaces an enduring tension in democratic societies between the authority to enforce borders and the obligation to answer for violence conducted in the public's name. His presence in the country — legally complicated by a missed court notice sent to the wro
Austin ICE shooting sparks deportation fight over Venezuelan migrant's witness status
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot in the back of the neck by an ICE agent and hospitalized in serious condition; protesters were injured and arrested during subsequent demonstrations.