ICE Shooting in Austin Sparks Protests, Calls for Investigation – thetexan.news

ICE Shooting in Austin Sparks Protests, Calls for Investigation  thetexan.news

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said a Venezuelan man shot by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had deportation orders. Holly Hansen is a Senior Reporter for The Texan where she has written extensively on criminal justice, public corruption, politics, and property rights, and is one of the state’s most recognized journalists covering Houston and Harris County. She is a frequent guest on radio and television shows, discussing local, state, and federal public affairs. She graduated from the University of Central Florida with a degree in History, has called Texas home for three decades, and now lives in the Austin area where she enjoys the outdoors and reading historic literature. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez.

(Photo courtesy of Kate Lincoln Goldfinch.) Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot and injured an illegal alien in Austin on Sunday, leading to protests and condemnation from local elected officials, although few details are available about the circumstances leading up to the altercation. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not named the man who was shot, but in a statement identified him as a Venezuelan national who had entered the country illegally under President Joe Biden’s administration and had a final order of removal. “The illegal alien’s condition is stable, and he is in federal custody pending removal,” DHS said. According