Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: Venezuelan shot by ICE in Austin needs surgery to avoid losing feeling in body, supporters say

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Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez has bullet lodged in back as accounts differ over events leading to traffic-stop shootingThe Venezuelan <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/20/man-shot-ice-agent-austin-texas" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">man shot</a> by federal immigration officers after a traffic stop in Texas needs surgery to avoid losing feeling on the left side of his body, according to his supporters.Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, 28, has spent the past five days in detention with a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/21/ice-shooting-austin-texas-venezuelan-man" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">bullet lodged</a> in his back, after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">ICE</a>) rapidly removed him from a hospital in Austin where he had been taken on Sunday after the shooting. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/26/venezuelan-man-ice-shooting-austin-texas" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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