“ICE has become an abusive, rogue organization. They said that Homeland Security was going to do a joint investigation with the FBI. Homeland Security, at this point, has zero credibility.
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Representative • Texas, District 20
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“Despite losing movement on his left side and having a bullet lodged next to his spine, ICE has forced Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez out of the hospital … He came to the United States legally. He had work permits and was an asylum seeker.
“Breaking: ICE shot and injured a man in Austin, Texas, earlier today. Trump has allowed ICE to flood our streets and put our communities in harms way again and again and Governor Abbott is complicit every time. I am demanding the body camera footage and full accountability.
“His detention is another devastating example of why Dilley must be shut down and why our government must end the detention of children and families.
“The facility is in perpetual violation of the law.
“I don’t think that, for the sake of the country, ICE, as it exists today, can continue years into the future.
“We have commodified child imprisonment in our nation.