{"id":443284,"date":"2026-09-21T20:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T20:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443284\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T20:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T20:22:14","slug":"anti-ice-protests-rise-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443284\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-ICE Protests Rise in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-09-21t032358z_1340071587_rc2fnna5ynm9_rtrmadp_3_usa-migration-shooting-2.webp\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden alignleft full-img-class wp-post-image\" alt=\"ice-agent-wounds-man-in-austin-texas\" wpb-att-id=\"490209\" wpb-att-extension=\"jpg\" data-wpbsize=\"full\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-09-21t032358z_1340071587_rc2fnna5ynm9_rtrmadp_3_usa-migration-shooting-2.webp\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden alignleft full-img-class wp-post-image\" alt=\"ice-agent-wounds-man-in-austin-texas\" wpb-att-id=\"490209\" wpb-att-extension=\"jpg\" data-wpbsize=\"full\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-09-21t032358z_1340071587_rc2fnna5ynm9_rtrmadp_3_usa-migration-shooting-2.webp\" class=\"alignleft full-img-class wp-post-image\" alt=\"ice-agent-wounds-man-in-austin-texas\" wpb-att-id=\"490209\" wpb-att-extension=\"jpg\" data-wpbsize=\"full\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"featuredImageCaption\">Protesters gather to block the site under Highway 183 where city officials said that a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot a person earlier in the day in Austin, Texas, US, September 20, 2026.   REUTERS\/Nuri Vallbona<\/p>\n<p>(Austin, Texas) \u2013 Anti-ICE protests have popped up across Austin, Texas after a man was shot and badly injured by an ICE agent.<\/p>\n<p>An ICE officer shot a Venezuelan man over the weekend, the man- 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez is in serious, but stable condition. An immigration lawyer says Perez was an asylum seeker in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden size-medium wp-image-490210\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-09-21t053109z_1635520214_rc2fnnajpwh6_rtrmadp_3_usa-migration-shooting-484x338.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"484\" height=\"338\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-490210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2026-09-21t053109z_1635520214_rc2fnnajpwh6_rtrmadp_3_usa-migration-shooting-484x338.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"484\" height=\"338\"\/>Bystanders standing near a column that says, \u201cMuerte a la Migra\u201d which means \u201cDeath to ICE,\u201d watch protesters (not pictured) at the site where city officials said that a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot a person earlier in the day in Austin, Texas, US, September 20, 2026. REUTERS\/Nuri Vallbona<\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurs as Perez was conducting a DoorDash deliver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Protesters gather to block the site under Highway 183 where city officials said that a US Immigration and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-443284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}