{"id":79188,"date":"2026-09-26T07:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T12:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/26\/venezuelan-shot-by-ice-in-austin-needs-surgery-to-avoid-losing-feeling-in-body-supporters-say\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T12:55:08","slug":"venezuelan-shot-by-ice-in-austin-needs-surgery-to-avoid-losing-feeling-in-body-supporters-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/26\/venezuelan-shot-by-ice-in-austin-needs-surgery-to-avoid-losing-feeling-in-body-supporters-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan shot by ICE in Austin needs surgery to avoid losing feeling in body, supporters say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wilber Rafael Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez has bullet lodged in back as accounts differ over events leading to traffic-stop shooting<\/p>\n<p>The Venezuelan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/20\/man-shot-ice-agent-austin-texas\">man shot<\/a> by federal immigration officers after a traffic stop in Texas needs surgery to avoid losing feeling on the left side of his body, according to his supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Wilber Rafael Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez, 28, has spent the past five days in detention with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/21\/ice-shooting-austin-texas-venezuelan-man\">bullet lodged<\/a> in his back, after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement\">ICE<\/a>) rapidly removed him from a hospital in Austin where he had been taken on Sunday after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/26\/venezuelan-man-ice-shooting-austin-texas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilber Rafael Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez has bullet lodged in back as accounts differ over events leading to traffic-stop shooting The Venezuelan man shot by federal immigration officers after a traffic stop in Texas needs surgery to avoid losing feeling on the left side of his body, according to his supporters. Wilber Rafael Garc\u00e9s P\u00e9rez, 28, has &#8230; <a title=\"Venezuelan shot by ICE in Austin needs surgery to avoid losing feeling in body, supporters say\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/26\/venezuelan-shot-by-ice-in-austin-needs-surgery-to-avoid-losing-feeling-in-body-supporters-say\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Venezuelan shot by ICE in Austin needs surgery to avoid losing feeling in body, supporters say\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}