Austin has its woke knickers in a wad, and a Democrat congressman, who used to be on the city council, is doing everything he can to keep the inmates riled up.
An illegal Venezuelan named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, with a final order of deportation, was encountered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers yesterday while working routine license plate checks and, in the course of his speeding away, gunfire rang out. He was shot, although, thank goodness, not fatally.
The national media were certainly helping Congressman Greg Casar pump up the outrage meter before any real details were available.
They did everything but call him 'Texas Man.'
Newsweek - even DoorDash workers aren't safe anymore
Who Is Wilber Rafael Garces Perez? DoorDash Worker Shot by ICE in Austin
NY Times - they'll just shoot anybody.
ICE Agents Encountered Austin Man by Chance Before Shooting Him
These guys are wondering why they got kicked out of the White House.
Man shot by ICE moved from hospital to detention center ‘with a bullet in his back,’ lawyer tells CNN
You get the idea.
Austin blew up at the underpass where the encounter went down.
AS LONG AS THESE DEPORTATIONS CONTINUE, THEY WILL CONTINUE TO MURDER, TORTURE, AND KIDNAP OUR PEOPLE
A Venezuelan man shot and wounded by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Sunday was making a DoorDash delivery in North Austin when he was shot, his attorney said. Protesters gathered near the 8000 block of Anderson Square, where the shooting happened. They banged drums,… pic.twitter.com/SKIy8EHQDv
— Austin American-Statesman (@statesman) September 21, 2026
Not a single American flag in any of the videos, so 'our' people is pretty self-explanatory.
🚨 BREAKING: Rioters waving foreign flags are BLOCKING MAJOR ROADWAYS in Austin following an ICE-involved shooting
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 20, 2026
They've stolen police tape and barricades to block roads, trapping several hundred motorists on a ramp
TEXAS STATE TROOPERS MUST INTERVENE! Because Austin PD sure… pic.twitter.com/SzhiWjswet
Not 'OUR' people, but theirs who have come here and intend to stay.
Austin, TX looks like a war zone after ICE shooting this weekend. Foreign flags being waved EVERYWHERE: pic.twitter.com/qgq05XZGiQ
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) September 21, 2026
THEIR people, which pandering Democrat politicians like Rep. Casar are using to virtue signal how much they care because they want to be reelected by their people.
Casar has never demonstrated any care for his people - his constituents.
When he was an Austin City Councilman, he oversaw the decimation of the Austin Police Department and the crime rate in that city has blown out of proportion.
Onlookers were disgusted as the Spanish-speaking congressman rushed to the news conference to rant against ICE for an event that had not even occurred in his district.
Terrible choice by City leadership allowing him to bud in on presser.
— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) September 20, 2026
Casar and Garza have gutted public safety in Austin, including targeting APD. https://t.co/ObvCXAh9MR
Gotta get those heroic sound bites in for campaign ads to impress the illegal voters who, they tell us, never vote.
Before he was a congressman, Greg Casar sat on the Austin City Council, where he took $150 million out of Austin's police budget and deleted 150 officer positions. Then Austin set a homicide record, and the streets spiraled into disorder we're still living with today.
— Austin Justice (@AustinJustice) September 21, 2026
Today,… pic.twitter.com/YjHQEc2vFb
Today, Mayor @KirkPWatson and @APDChiefDavis handed Rep. Casar the city's podium over a shooting that didn't even happen in his district. He used it to tell Austin that ICE shoots and kills people "with impunity" and needs to leave town.
His name might not ring a bell right off the bat, but his last stunt at the Capitol surely will. He was the 'thirst striker' on the steps, grimacing like one of the fellows playing a gladiator in the old Italian stop-motion movies. You can almost hear his agonized groan as Capitol babes daubed his sweaty brow with cool cloths and Eric Swalwell rubbed his moist thigh, wishing he, too, had the courage not to order DoorDash until 6 PM
Mr. Casar is best known for staging ridiculously dramatic photo ops alongside his Radical Left lunatic friends, like the disgraced Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar. https://t.co/8gKwQepkcF pic.twitter.com/FFySQezGDx
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 20, 2026
Casar was so proud of himself that he issued a press release with a big picture of himself swilling a cool tall glass of de agua.
LEGEND
NEWS: Congressman Greg Casar Ends 8+ Hour Thirst Strike on the U.S. House Steps
And he now has meat for his selective new crusade.
Just like Americans have from Minneapolis to Houston, Austinites will speak out peacefully against this deadly mass deportation machine.
— Congressman Greg Casar (@RepCasar) September 20, 2026
ICE has been terrorizing our country for far too long. We will not be silent.
Over and over, ICE has shot people and then lied about what happened. We can see the lies with our own eyes. We will demand truth, transparency and accountability.
Over and over.
There are still no details from the Department of Homeland Security on the particulars as far as the chain of events, which is a shame. The lack of clarification is leaving the field wide open, but I do understand they and their FBI partners want all their ducks in a row.
...It's still not clear exactly what happened during the law enforcement operation before the ICE agent opened fire in North Austin.
Austin-Travis County EMS Chief Rob Luckritz said emergency crews were notified of a reported shooting at about 12:56 p.m. in the 8000 block of Anderson Square.
Paramedics arrived within about 3 1/2 minutes and found an adult man with a gunshot wound. The man was transported to a local trauma center in serious but stable condition.
Luckritz said the patient was taken from the scene within nine minutes of EMS crews’ arrival.
...APD Chief Lisa Davis said the shooting involved a federal agent and later confirmed she had been told the agent was with ICE.
Austin police were not involved in the shooting. Officers helped block roads and direct traffic near Research Boulevard and Anderson Square.
Davis said the Austin Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit, which investigates officer-involved shootings, was at the scene.
She said she had not yet been briefed by federal authorities about the operation. Davis said she had heard there was a brief foot pursuit, but emphasized that the information was preliminary.
The illegal Venezuelan was released from the hospital to ICE custody, and now the battle has shifted to his lawyers vs. wherever he's being detained.
In the meantime, Casar is holding court every chance he gets, vilifying the federal officers, and telling them to leave Austin be.
Austin likes not enforcing the law.
Texas Rep. Greg Casar compares immigration enforcement to "war" and says the only way "for Austin to be safe" is to stop enforcing immigration law altogether. pic.twitter.com/dA2wQ5ckeU
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 20, 2026
As Greg Gutfeld pointed out, Casar's really selective about who he gets upset about, too.
On Labor Day a man, Andrew Wimsatt, was viciously murdered in an Austin Park - in an attempted beheading. This creep didn't give two shits about it. https://t.co/gAj0URy97X
— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) September 21, 2026
Victor Davis Hanson: America Can’t Ignore the Cost of Failed Assimilation
— Daily Signal (@DailySignal) September 19, 2026
Benedict Ogbodiegwu allegedly murdered 62-year-old Andrew Wimsatt while he was sitting on a bench. He stabbed him to death and tried to behead him.
The Left sees this as collateral damage, saying that,… pic.twitter.com/UpquOus1Mq
Then again, precious, kind-hearted Andrew Wimsatt wasn't one of Casar's 'people,' you know?
Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do everything they can to interfere with and threaten ICE agents enforcing our immigration laws.
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