{"id":480374,"date":"2026-10-29T13:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T13:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480374\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T13:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T13:40:19","slug":"dhs-to-announce-texas-ice-mission-results-man-shot-by-ice-in-austin-pleads-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480374\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS to announce Texas ICE mission results; man shot by ICE in Austin pleads not guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A man shot by an ICE officer<\/a> in North Austin has pleaded not guilty<\/a> as federal officials prepare to highlight results from a statewide immigration enforcement effort in Texas.<\/p>\n

Wilber Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez pleaded not guilty Oct. 27 and waived his appearance at an arraignment scheduled for Thursday. The shooting<\/a> happened Sept. 20 after an encounter that began while Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez was making a food delivery.<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors say Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez drove away from a traffic stop and struck an officer<\/a> with his side mirror. Prosecutors say a pursuit followed and that Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez then tried to hit the officer with his car, prompting the officer to shoot. There was no body camera footage of the actual shooting.<\/p>\n

RELATED | Austin man shot by ICE officer pleads not guilty to federal assault charge<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Greg Casar, D-Austin area, has been advocating for Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez since the shooting. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe federal government can’t be expected to just police themselves. They need to share evidence with local enforcement to be able to pursue his case because Wilber should not be deported or have his rights denied to him if he’s potentially a victim in this criminal case,\u201d Casar said.<\/p>\n

Casar also criticized ICE\u2019s presence in communities. <\/p>\n

\u201cICE should not be here in our communities. We should not have masked rogue agents shooting people. We’re just trying to live their lives or go to work. This does not threaten only immigrants, but naturalized citizens, green card holders, people born elsewhere, and US citizens born here. Have all been affected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez\u2019s attorney says he entered the country legally under the Biden administration and applied for asylum, but a judge later issued a deportation order<\/a> after he missed a court hearing. His attorney says the hearing notice was sent to the wrong address. The attorney also says Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez received a work permit, but it expired last December.<\/p>\n

In the federal case, a judge on Sept. 30 found Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez a flight risk<\/a> and ordered him held in continued federal custody. A grand jury indicted him Oct. 20. He now faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.<\/p>\n

Separately, the Homeland Security secretary and ICE officials are scheduled to hold a Dallas press conference today on Operation Lone Star Mission, a statewide enforcement effort. The press conference is set to begin at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 A man shot by an ICE officer in North Austin has pleaded not guilty as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-480374","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\/480374","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=480374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}