2026-09-24T20:31:18.934Z / 路透社
委内瑞拉巴基西梅托，9月24日（路透社）—— 威尔伯·拉斐尔·加塞斯·佩雷斯的母亲周三在接受路透社采访时表示，她最后一次听到儿子的声音是在周日下午，也就是他在得州奥斯汀的车内被联邦移民执法人员枪击后的片刻。
“他们撞了我的车，还朝我开枪，”弗洛尔·佩雷斯回忆起儿子在视频通话中对她说的话，当时她正远在委内瑞拉的家中试图安抚情绪激动的儿子。随后她看到一名警员拽着儿子的胳膊将他从车里拖了出来。
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四天后，28岁的加塞斯·佩雷斯仍被拘留，子弹仍留在他的背部，而他的母亲表示自己至今无法与他取得联系。
自共和党籍总统唐纳德·特朗普再次就职以来，联邦移民执法人员已枪击至少20人，其中7人死亡，这一事件在美国引发了抗议活动。批评人士认为，特朗普推动加大遣返力度的政策导致暴力对抗事件不断增加，并指责本届政府拒绝为涉案执法人员追究责任。
导致周日枪击事件的具体经过目前仍不明朗。
来自委内瑞拉的加塞斯·佩雷斯表示，周日他当时正在做外卖配送员，他的车被美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）的执法人员驾车剐蹭。他称对方直到撞车后才表明身份并打开应急灯。
移民及海关执法局尚未公布自己对事件的说法，也未解释为何加塞斯·佩雷斯在车内时会遭到枪击。其上级机构国土安全部在周二的一份声明中表示，加塞斯·佩雷斯是“针对性车辆拦截行动”的目标，且“抗拒执法人员、逃避逮捕对我们的执法人员、非法移民和公众而言都是危险的”。
事件相关视频并未拍到枪击过程，但可以看到加塞斯·佩雷斯在车内受伤。一名知情人士透露，枪击他的联邦执法人员未佩戴随身摄像头。该人士表示，这名身份尚未公开的执法人员于去年被移民及海关执法局聘用，此前曾在美国海关与边境保护局工作。
在7月的交通拦截行动中，得州和缅因州先后有两名男子遭枪击身亡，时隔六天后，美国边境事务专员汤姆·霍曼表示，移民及海关执法局的执法人员将被要求至少使用一台随身摄像头记录车辆拦截行动。移民及海关执法局代理局长承诺将在8月底前为每名执法人员配备随身摄像头。
当被要求就涉案执法人员和加塞斯·佩雷斯母亲的说法置评时，国土安全部提供了一份信息清单，但未回应路透社的提问。
“剧痛难忍”
51岁的弗洛尔·佩雷斯在委内瑞拉西北部巴基西梅托的家中接受采访时表示，她因担心儿子而彻夜难眠，只希望儿子能获准就医取出子弹、缓解痛苦。
“对我来说最重要的是，带他去医院接受治疗，”她说。
得州联邦众议员格雷格·卡萨尔周三晚间在访问了移民及海关执法局拘留所后召开新闻发布会，他表示加塞斯·佩雷斯的伤口目前塞着纱布，纱布会被血液浸透，每天需要更换两到三次，这让他“剧痛难忍”。
“如果你见过威尔伯，就像见过任何一名三天前被子弹击中的人一样，你会说这个人需要的是医生，而不是被遣返或关在拘留中心，”卡萨尔说道。
奥斯汀警方周二公布的一段随身摄像头视频显示，一名出勤警员拍摄到加塞斯·佩雷斯坐在车内，两名移民及海关执法局的执法人员站在车旁。加塞斯·佩雷斯告诉他们自己肩膀疼痛，随后被要求下车并戴上手铐。一名警员随后用剪刀剪开了他的衬衫，露出了他上背部的枪伤。
在其提供的信息清单中，国土安全部称移民及海关执法局“不会也无权建议医疗程序，也不具备相关权限”，并表示加塞斯·佩雷斯“正全天候接受医疗护理”。
佩雷斯称，她的儿子于2023年12月通过CBP One应用程序从墨西哥进入美国，这款应用程序是前总统乔·拜登政府推出的，允许移民通过预约美国海关与边境保护局人员合法入境。
国土安全部表示，加塞斯·佩雷斯的工作许可证已于2025年过期，因此他符合被遣返的条件。
加塞斯·佩雷斯在美国的“梦想”是赚钱抚养他7岁的儿子，这名儿子患有脑瘫，在委内瑞拉需要花费高昂的治疗费用。家人尚未告诉这名男孩他父亲遭遇的事情。
“我们得一点一点地告诉孩子，”佩雷斯说，“因为他每天都要求和爸爸通话。”
加塞斯·佩雷斯的律师已提交法律请愿书，请求将他从拘留中释放，以便他能够参与枪击事件的调查并争取合法身份。
他在得州接受联邦移民法官审理的首次听证会定于下周三举行。
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Mother of man wounded by ICE in Texas describes video call moments after shooting
2026-09-24T20:31:18.934Z / Reuters
BARQUISIMETO, Venezuela, Sept 24 (Reuters) – The last time Wilber Rafael Garces Perez’s mother heard his voice was on Sunday afternoon, moments after he had been shot by a federal immigration agent in his car in Austin, Texas, she told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday.
“They crashed into my car and shot me,” Flor Perez recalled her son telling her over a video call as she tried to calm him down from her home in Venezuela. Then she saw an officer pulling her son out of the vehicle by his arm.
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Four days later, Garces Perez, 28, remains in detention with a bullet still in his back and his mother said she has not been able to speak with him.
Federal immigration agents have shot at least 20 people since Republican President Donald Trump returned to office, 7 fatally, sparking protests across the US. Critics contend that Trump’s push to ramp up deportations has led to an increasing number of violent confrontations, and accuse the administration of resisting accountability for the agents involved.
The sequence of events leading up to Sunday’s shooting remains unclear.
Garces Perez, who is from Venezuela, said he was working as a food delivery driver on Sunday when his car was sideswiped by agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He said they did not identify themselves or turn on their emergency lights until after the collision.
ICE has not offered its own version of events or explained why Garces Perez was shot while sitting in his car. Its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, said in a Tuesday statement that Garces Perez was the subject of a “targeted vehicle stop” and that “resisting officers and evading arrest is dangerous for our officers, illegal aliens, and the public.”
Videos of the incident do not show the shooting, but do show Garces Perez injured in the car. The federal officer who shot him was not wearing a body camera, according to a person familiar with the incident. The officer, who has not been identified, was hired by ICE last year and had formerly worked for US Customs and Border Protection, the person said.
After the fatal shootings of two men six days apart during July traffic stops in Texas and Maine, US border czar Tom Homan said ICE agents would be required to record vehicle stops with at least one body-worn camera. ICE’s acting director vowed to equip each officer with a body-worn camera by the end of August.
Asked for comment about the officer involved and the account of Garces Perez’s mother, DHS sent an information sheet that did not address Reuters’ questions.
‘INTENSE PAIN’
Speaking from her home in Barquisimeto in northwestern Venezuela, Flor Perez, 51, said she was sleepless worrying about her son, hoping he would be allowed to see a doctor to remove the bullet and relieve his pain.
“What matters to me is that they take him to a hospital and treat him,” she said.
Garces Perez’s wound is currently stuffed with gauze that fills with blood and has to be changed two or three times a day, causing him “intense pain,” Democratic US Representative Greg Casar of Texas said at a press conference on Wednesday night, hours after visiting him at an ICE detention facility.
“If you saw Wilber, just like if you saw anybody that had been shot three days ago, you would say this person needs a doctor, not a deportation or a detention center,” said Casar.
Video released by Austin police on Tuesday from a body camera worn by one of its officers who responded to the incident shows Garces Perez inside his car with two ICE agents standing nearby. Garces Perez tells them his shoulder hurts, whereupon he is told to exit the vehicle and placed in handcuffs. A police officer then uses shears to cut away his shirt, revealing a gunshot wound to his upper back.
In its information sheet, DHS said ICE “does not and would not advise, nor be the authority on, a medical procedure” and said Garces Perez was “receiving medical care around the clock.”
Perez said her son entered the United States from Mexico in December 2023 using CBP One, an app used by former President Joe Biden’s administration to allow migrants to lawfully cross the border by scheduling an appointment with CBP.
DHS has said Garces Perez’s work permit expired in 2025, making him eligible for deportation.
Garces Perez’s “dream” in the US was to earn money to support his 7-year-old son, who was born with cerebral palsy and requires costly treatment in Venezuela. The family has not yet told him about what happened to his father.
“We’re going to have to tell the boy little by little,” Perez said, “because he asks to talk to his dad every day.”
Garces Perez’s attorneys have filed a legal petition asking that he be released from custody so he can participate in the investigation into the shooting and pursue legal status.
His first hearing before a federal immigration judge in Texas is set for next Wednesday.
Reporting by Keren Torres, Kristina Cooke and Julia Harte. Writing by Julia Harte. Editing by Jesse Mesner-Hage and Aurora Ellis
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