RELATED: Man shot by ICE agent in Austin now held at Pearsall detention facility, sources say<\/a><\/p>\nAdvocates speaking out on behalf of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez are calling for his release. They also want any bodycam video immediately released.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Advocates speaking out on behalf of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez are calling for his release. They also want any bodycam video immediately released.<\/p>\n
State legislators are joining community advocates, saying they’ve had enough of these ICE operations.<\/p>\n
“Abolition now and justice for Wilber,” one woman cried out during a joint press-conference Monday condemning ICE agents for the shooting.<\/p>\n
Community leaders are calling for change following the shooting of 28-year-old Garces Perez sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The Venezuelan man was working as a DoorDash delivery driver when officers shot him. The bullet is reportedly still stuck in his back.<\/p>\n
“He was taken only a few hours after being shot,” said Texas District 20 Congressman Joaquin Castro in a post to X. “He was forced out of the hospital, taken from the hospital and what taken to what is known as STIPC in Pearsall, Texas.”<\/p>\n
Perez’s attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch also took to social media with updates. Saying her client entered the country lawfully using the CBPone app in search of asylum.<\/p>\n
“The immigration court changed his court date without notifying him,” Lincoln-Goldfinch said. “So they held a court date without him present, and he was ordered deported in absentia.”<\/p>\n
Goldfinch said he appealed to that decision and lost.<\/p>\n
“i’m gonna say it’s common that immigration does make these errors,” said San Antonio Immigration Attorney Alfredo Lozano.<\/p>\n
We reached out to his office to ask more about deportation orders and how they’ve been carried out in Texas.<\/p>\n
“You do have the right to be notified of the date and time that the hearing is going take place,” Lozano said. “If there’s a change — you have the right to be aware of that change. They have to put you on notice again that there was a change or that it was canceled or rescheduled.”<\/p>\n
State Democratic leaders called the shooting another instance of ICE overreach.<\/p>\n
“They said they’re going to go after criminals,” said Texas District 35 Representative Greg Casar. “As far as anybody can tell, searching the criminal records, Wilbur had no criminal record.”<\/p>\n
“It’s basically abuse that you would take somebody that has been shot and move them from a hospital to a prison,” Castro added.<\/p>\n
We’ve also reached out to Texas House Republicans and the office of Governor Greg Abbott for comment about the shooting. We’re still waiting to hear back.<\/p>\n
In his video, Congressman Joaquin Castro said Wilber is still in a lot of pain, adding that the bullet is still inside his left side.<\/p>\n
Castro and Casar plan to visit him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, TX – A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE officer in Austin is heading back to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-443650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443650","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=443650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}