Court filings in a custody dispute identified Brian Palacios as the off-duty ICE agent responsible for the fatal shooting of Keith Porter Jr. on New Year's Eve. According to a restraining order application filed by the ex-husband of Palacios' girlfriend, the agent said in a phone call that ICE was pursuing a criminal investigation over his name being made public. Palacios' attorney has said her client shot Porter in self-defense. Porter's family has maintained he posed no threat.
Socialist Claire Valdez, who is backed by the Big Apple mayor and US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to run in New York's 7th Congressional District, has pledged on the campaign trail to open up borders and "fight to dismantle and abolish ICE." But she has made no mention that her father, Larry Valdez, works for engineering firm Parkhill Smith & Cooper, which has been responsible for a myriad of Border Patrol projects in western Texas.
This has been the hardest thing my family and I have ever experienced. He condemned the fact that, after being detained and deported to a country I barely remembered, the authorities made him feel that I could go home, see my family, and hug my son, only to then take that hope away from me.
The ridge was tricky, with mandatory sudden-rock-avoidance software fully engaged and necessary. Swerve, lift left ski over rock, step over pepper with right ski, light bunny hop over some rocky claws, and blindly drop into Paranoid 4 with speed.
City officials, including Board President Rafael Mandelman and congressional candidate Supervisor Connie Chan, were arrested at San Francisco International Airport on Friday during a May Day protest against conditions for airport workers and ICE's presence in airports across the country.
