DHS has faced strong criticism since January, when federal agents engaged in immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis fatally shot two U.S. citizens.
“The biggest thing the family wants to get out right now is that he is not a gang member,” the attorney told The Modesto Bee. “He is a family man engaged to a U.S. citizen with a 2-year-old U.S. citizen daughter who was on his way to work in the Bay Area.”
Nora Zaragoza-Yáñez, a program manager for Valley Watch Network, which monitors ICE, said any statements from ICE should be viewed with skepticism given the agency’s history of issuing statements after shootings that are later found false. “We must question the accuracy of their statements,” Zaragoza-Yáñez told The Sacramento Bee. “We need an independent investigation and we need ICE out of our community.” Zaragoza-Yáñez also said that shooting was “another example that ICE puts our community in danger.”
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