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Federal government files assault charges against Wilber Garcés, the migrant shot by an ICE agent in Austin

30 September 2026 at 09:57

A Venezuelan man wounded by an immigration agent during an operation in Austin on September 20 was charged Tuesday by the federal government with assault, resisting authority and impeding the work of federal officers, according to a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.

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Wilber Garcés, in an undated photo.

More Republicans warn nominating Ken Paxton was a ‘mistake’ and expect Texas Senate seat to be lost

29 September 2026 at 11:43

Polls are unfavorable for Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton. With 38 days until the midterm elections, some Republican politicians have all but conceded the Lone Star seat and remain haunted by the belief that the safer bet would have been to give the nomination to veteran congressman John Cornyn. Paxton isn’t gaining traction, not even after President Donald Trump himself urged voters at the unprecedented Republican convention in September in Dallas — his “Trumpapalooza” — to imagine that on November 3 they would be choosing him instead of the controversial Southern politician.

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Ken Paxton at the Republican Convention in Dallas, September 9.

‘An incomplete happiness’: An activist wins his freedom after nearly two years of medical neglect at an ICE facility

21 September 2026 at 09:42
Julián Palacios at the ICE center in Tacoma on August 11, 2026.

Colombian Julián Palacios Obregón spent 650 days in immigration detention in the United States. He was sick for most of that time. A month after being transferred to the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington state, he began vomiting and suffering diarrhea with fecal incontinence that forced him to wear diapers. Although he was prescribed antibiotics that temporarily improved symptoms caused by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, the underlying problem repeatedly returned: he remained exposed to cloudy water and to food he often described as raw or foul-smelling.

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