New calls for ICE accountability, transparency emerge after Austin shooting – spectrumlocalnews.com

New calls for ICE accountability, transparency emerge after Austin shooting  spectrumlocalnews.com

A Venezuelan man was shot and wounded by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a traffic stop in Austin on Sunday. WASHINGTON — There are new calls for accountability and transparency after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot a Venezuelan man during an immigration enforcement operation in North Austin. “No more traffic stops by ICE,” said immigration attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch at a news conference Monday. She represents the family of the Venezuelan man shot and wounded by an ICE officer during a traffic stop in Austin. According to Lincoln-Goldfinch, Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was making a DoorDash delivery Sunday afternoon when an unmarked vehicle side swiped the blue sedan he was driving.

She said Garces Perez did not know ICE was in that unmarked vehicle so he made a U-turn under the highway before he was side swiped again and then shot. “There is absolutely zero justification for having shot him in the back of the neck, and this is why we’re calling for a stop to ICE traffic stops,” Lincoln-Goldfinch said. “ICE officers are over-armed, overpaid, undertrained, and violent. They don’t know how to safely conduct traffic stops.” The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement to Spectrum News that Garces Perez “illegally entered our country under the Biden administration and had a final order