Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Lawlessness

The incident occurred on Howard Street just east of Dodge Avenue before 10 a.m. Sunday. It’s the first violence involving federal agents in Evanston since last December.

Police say the man, a U.S. citizen and Evanston resident, ended up being transported back to the hospital for treatment of minor injuries.
The gentleman was walking to CVS from the hospital, where he’d just been treated,, given a prescription to fill out. But he was walking in a suburb just north of Chicago while non-white. So clearly he was who ICE was looking for; it could have been.
The person they detained on Howard Street “resembled a person they were seeking,” the agent told police. He “refused to provide identification, was detained for fingerprinting, and resisted detention,” the agents claimed, but police said the agents “later determined he was not the person they were seeking and learned that he was a U.S. citizen” and released him.

Garton disputed that account, saying in his opinion, “It looked like they randomly targeted the guy and said, ‘Let’s take this one.'”

As the man repeatedly yelled out that he was a citizen, Garton said he and others who were watching the incident began yelling at the agents to leave the man alone, and the agents eventually got into their two cars and drove off.
After determining this looked bad and they’d better run. Maybe that’s the reason the victim wasn’t shot.
Garces Perez, who called into the news conference, said an unmarked SUV sideswiped him twice before he realized that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were trying to pull him over. He said he did a U-turn under a freeway underpass when the SUV struck his blue Toyota Camry. That’s when the SUVs turned on their blue-and-red lights and sirens, he said.

He asked the agents if he could stop somewhere safer than in traffic under the freeway. He said an agent told him no, then he felt one shot to his back.

He was transported to Dell Seton Medical Center, where staff told him they weren’t going to remove the bullet because it was too close to his spine, Garces Perez said in the call from the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall, about a two hour drive south of Austin.

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Kristin Etter, another Austin immigration attorney representing Garces Perez, filed a request for his release and to block his deportation in a federal court in San Antonio on Monday.

Etter wrote in the court documents that her client is not disputing the final removal order but wants a chance to apply for a U-visa, a type of immigration status for victims and witnesses of a crime. Etter also wrote that because the shooting is now being investigated as a potential crime, he has the right to apply for a U visa.

“The current administration has demonstrated a pattern of accelerating immigration enforcement against individuals connected to incidents involving federal immigration officers, raising a substantial and immediate concern that (the federal government) will attempt to remove (Garces Perez) before he has an opportunity to pursue U nonimmigrant status,” Etter wrote.
Abolish ICE. Burn DHS to the ground. And scatter the ashes.
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