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Perez did not see if ICE caught him. “It’s been going on for a month here and they’ve just been — respectfully — terrorizing the whole area,” Perez, 28, said as he looked past a mostly empty restaurant and onto the street on Monday. “I just guess they’re easy targets because a lot of people, a lot of construction people gotta put gas or whatever in the mornings.” The restaurant sits among a group of small businesses near the intersection where an ICE officer on Sunday shot and wounded Wilber Rafael Garces Perez , a 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela. He said the earliest videos he received from followers in April 2025 were difficult to initially confirm as ICE arrests because the officers drove unmarked cars and wore vests that simply said “police.” But soon it became clear that the authorities were from ICE, he said, as more videos emerged, followed by accounts from relatives of those detained. Disclosure: The University of Texas at Austin has been a major financial supporter of The Texas Tribune.
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