White House border czar Tom Homan said in an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times that a Venezuelan illegal immigrant attempted to evade arrest before he was shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Austin, Texas, on Sept. 20.
“We were trying to arrest him in deportment,” Homan told The Epoch Times senior editor Jan Jekielek in an “American Thought Leaders” interview airing on Sept. 26. “He fled. We had lights and sirens. … And, you know, he was shot.”
Wilber Rafael Garcés Perez, who had a final order from a judge to be deported, was taken to a hospital in stable condition after the shooting….