On a Sunday afternoon in Austin, Texas, a federal immigration officer shot a 28-year-old Venezuelan man named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez during a traffic stop, wounding him in the torso and leaving his family unable to learn where he was or how he was doing. The incident arrives amid an unprecedented surge in ICE enforcement operations and a deepening national question about who watches the watchers when federal agents act alone, far from local accountability. It is a moment that asks an old and unresolved question: in a democracy, who answers for the use of force when the institution doing th
ICE officer shoots Venezuelan man in Austin amid surge in immigration enforcement
A 28-year-old Venezuelan man was shot in the torso by an ICE officer and hospitalized; his family struggled to obtain information about his status and location.