{"id":93498,"date":"2026-09-21T14:44:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/ice-agent-shoots-venezuelan-doordash-driver-in-austin-tx\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T14:44:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:44:53","slug":"ice-agent-shoots-venezuelan-doordash-driver-in-austin-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/ice-agent-shoots-venezuelan-doordash-driver-in-austin-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE agent shoots Venezuelan DoorDash driver in Austin, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and wounded a man from Venezuela who was working as a DoorDash driver <!--more--> Sunday in Texas\u2019 capital, city officials confirmed, with protests erupting at the scene against President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>The man shot Sunday in Austin was identified as Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, by Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, an immigration lawyer who said she is representing his family. Garces Perez is an undocumented immigrant who had a final order for removal, the Department of Homeland Security said. He was stable and \u201cin federal custody pending removal,\u201d DHS said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we do understand is that he previously held a valid work permit and that, based on the information available to us, he entered the United States lawfully,\u201d Lincoln-Goldfinch said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 New video of aftermath of ICE shooting in Austin<br \/>\n0:44 CNN&#8217;s Ed Lavandera reports from the scene<br \/>\n2:20 Rep. Greg Cesar (D-TX) calls for independent investigation of shooting<br \/>\n2:49 What DHS&#8217;s initial statement doesn&#8217;t say<br \/>\n3:33 CNN senior law enforcement analyst Andrew McCabe unpacks what we know<\/p>\n<p>Watch 24\/7 live news with CNN Headlines: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#ICE #Austin #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and wounded a man from Venezuela who was working as a DoorDash driver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}