On a Sunday afternoon in Austin, Texas, a Venezuelan man named Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez — a DoorDash driver two years into a new life in America — was shot in the torso by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a traffic stop, and then removed from the hospital by the same agency before his family or lawyer could reach him. The incident joins a growing pattern of ICE officer-involved shootings amid a historic surge in federal immigration enforcement, raising enduring questions about accountability, transparency, and the human cost of power exercised without witness. What remai
ICE officer shoots man at Austin traffic stop as transparency demands mount
A 28-year-old man was shot and wounded in the torso by an ICE officer; his family lost contact with him after ICE removed him from the hospital, raising concerns about his medical care and detention.
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