Man Shot by ICE Agent in North Austin Speaks About Incident
Garces Perez says he was denied surgery and left in ICE custody with the bullet still inside his body.
- On Sunday, 28-year-old Wilber Garces Perez was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Austin, Texas, during a traffic stop where officers allegedly sideswiped his vehicle.
- The Department of Homeland Security claimed Perez had a 'final order of removal,' but attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch maintained the Venezuelan national was in the United States legally with a work permit.
- Fabiana Melendez Ruiz, communications strategist with Lincoln-Goldfinch Law, stated, "They never asked him to stop, never turned on any police lights or sirens," alleging officers activated emergency equipment only after sideswiping the vehicle.
- Authorities transferred Perez to a detention center in Pearsall, 135 miles southwest of Austin, with the bullet still lodged in his back after Dell Seton reportedly halted surgery preparations.
- The incident occurred amid President Donald Trump's ongoing immigration crackdown, which saw nearly 51,000 arrests in August, and follows several fatal encounters between federal agents and individuals in Texas and Minnesota.
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“I still have the bullet in me,” says Wilbur Garces Perez, a Venezuelan national who was “hit by a car twice” and shot by an ICE agent in Austin, Texas. The post USA: “I still have the bullet in me,” says the young man who was shot by an ICE agent appeared first on in.gr.
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Austin, U.S.A., Sep 21 (EFE).- From a detention center in South Texas, and with one of the bullets shot at him by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent still inside his body, Venezuelan Wilber Garcés told local reporters by telephone about [...] The entry “How will I leave the bullet there?”: Venezuelan wounded by ICE speaks while he is in detention was first published in HolaNews.
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AUSTIN, Sept 22 — A Venezuelan national shot and wounded by a US immigration agent in Texas was jailed with the bullet still inside his body, his lawyer said Monday.Wilber Rafael...
By CNN en Español Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a 28-year-old Venezuelan who worked as a delivery man for DoorDash, was injured after being shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Austin, Texas. Hours later he was discharged from a hospital and transferred to
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