US EditionMan Fatally Shot by ICE Had Just Dropped His Sons at School
Silverio Villegas González, identified as an undocumented immigrant with prior traffic violations, was fatally shot by an ICE agent after resisting arrest by driving toward officers, officials said.
- Federal immigration agents fatally shot Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez on Friday in Franklin Park, Illinois, shortly after he dropped his sons at school.
- The shooting occurred after Villegas-Gonzalez resisted arrest by refusing commands and driving his vehicle at officers, dragging one officer a significant distance.
- Villegas-Gonzalez, a 38-year-old cook from Michoacn, Mexico, had four prior nonviolent traffic violations and was targeted as part of intensified ICE enforcement in Chicago.
- DHS stated that the officer acted in accordance with his training and applied force appropriately, while activists and Villegas-Gonzalez's attorney maintained that he was nonviolent and is being unfairly portrayed in a negative light.
- The shooting is under investigation by U.S. government agencies such as the FBI, while local officials and Mexico’s Foreign Ministry have called for a thorough and transparent examination of the incident.
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) expressed its repudiation of the violent incident in which the Mexican migrant Silverio Villegas lost his life, which occurred on Friday morning in Chicago, when he was to be arrested by U.S. immigration agents, and demanded an inquiry to clarify the facts.
The Mexican government has requested a full investigation into the death of a man who was shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent near Chicago on Friday. The man was a Mexican citizen.
Michoac authorities were encouraged that the murder of Silverio Villegas Gonz lez by ICE agents in Chicago occurred in front of his children.
Man fatally shot by ICE in Franklin Park had just dropped off his child at school, Rep. Delia Ramirez says
Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez was formally identified Saturday by the Cook County medical examiner's office. Ramirez and others are demanding an investigation into what happened.
Mexico Condemns the Murder of a Migrant in an ICE Operation in Chicago, US - teleSUR English
Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) condemned this Saturday the murder of a Mexican migrant on Friday in the American city of Chicago in an operation by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), where an agent fatally shot the man who, according to the U.S. authority, resisted arrest. RELATED: Bad Bunny’s International Tour Not To Include the U.S. Due to ICE Raids The Mexican Foreign Ministry identified the deceased as Silverio …
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