He's on life support after being critically injured on Wednesday in the shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas. He was being detained there after being arrested on Aug. 8 for driving under the influence. He is in the U.S. without legal status. "It hurts to think like, what if he never even gets to meet him," Gauffeny told NPR on Saturday, referring to her unborn child, a son. That is very possible.
DALLAS (AP) - The gunman who opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas hated the U.S. government and wanted to incite terror by killing federal agents, officials said Thursday, offering the first hint of a motive in the attack. The shooting at daybreak Wednesday targeted the ICE building, including a van in a gated entryway that held detainees. One detainee was killed, and two other were critically wounded. No ICE personnel were hurt.
The incident is just the latest in a series of attacks on ICE facilities amid widespread outrage over the agency's recent, often military-style raids and arrests of undocumented migrants and some legal residents or visitors. This is part of President Donald Trump's pledge to crack down on undocumented people in the US. list of 4 itemsend of list The Department of Homeland Security said security at all ICE facilities across the US has been ramped up following the shooting.
Masked men jumping out of unmarked cars; people disappearing; no due process; no oversight; zero accountability happening in the United States of America today, he said. People ask, Well is authoritarianism you being hyperbolic?' Bullsh(t we're being hyperbolic. If you're black and brown community, it's here in this country. Newsom argued, These are not just authoritarian tendencies, these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government, before saying he would push back if masked ICE agents in an unmarked car tried to apprehend him.