SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A few dozen protesters showed up at San Antonio’s City Hall to protest the shooting of a 28-year-old Venezuelan illegal alien during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) action on September 20. The poorly attended protest, organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), drew little attention from passing tourists visiting the Alamo City on Friday.
The protest was advertised by the PSL as a call for justice for Wilber Rafael Garces-Perez, whom the PSL alleges was shot by ICE in his car on Sunday while he was delivering food as a DoorDash delivery driver. As Breitbart Texas’s Bob Price reported, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials allege Garces-Peres was in an illegal status after having entered the United States illegally during the Biden Border Crisis.
According to DHS, Garces-Perez was shot by an ICE officer in Austin on Sunday after he attempted to flee from an ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officer during a targeted law enforcement operation near the 7000 block of West Anderson Lane. After being provided emergency medical treatment, Garces-Perez was placed in an ICE detention center in Pearsall, Texas.
The attendees at Friday’s downtown protest, just blocks from the historic Alamo, carried signs calling for ICE to leave the city. Others protested the recent plans by ICE to retrofit a large commercial warehouse on the city’s east side…