On a Sunday afternoon in Austin, Texas, a 28-year-old Venezuelan man named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was delivering food for DoorDash when an ICE officer's vehicle sideswiped his car and he was shot in the back. He was hospitalized briefly, then transferred to a detention facility two hours away with a bullet still lodged near his spine — a wound too dangerous to remove, and yet too inconvenient, it seems, to wait. His case arrives at a moment when the nation is being asked to reckon with what immigration enforcement looks like in practice: who it reaches, how it unfolds, and at what human co
Venezuelan DoorDash driver shot by ICE detained with bullet lodged near spine
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot in the back by an ICE officer and is now detained with a bullet lodged near his spine, experiencing severe pain without adequate medical attention.