Federal immigration agents have shot at least 21 people during Trump's 2nd term
Eight of the shootings were fatal, including three who were U.S. citizens.
At least 21 people have been shot by federal immigration agents during the second Trump administration, according to an ABC News count.
The most recent shooting was on Sunday, when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Austin, Texas, shot Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a Venezuelan man who was making deliveries for DoorDash.
Eight of those shootings, which included three U.S. citizens, were fatal, according to an analysis based on ABC reporting, statements from lawmakers, and government press releases. ABC News found at least 15 other incidents in which federal immigration agents fired shots but did not injure people.
The latest shooting has continued to raise questions among lawmakers and immigrant advocates about the Trump administration's deportation campaign.
"There was hope that ICE would abandon the physical brutality and inhumanity of its tactics on the streets," Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said on Tuesday. "There was hope that there would be accountability. That hope has been vanished. Most recently, just days ago in Austin, Texas."
In response to the incident in Texas, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Tuesday that the agency is "tasked with enforcing the laws passed by Congress" and that ICE "will not be slowing down or leaving Austin."
"We will continue to enforce our nation's laws," the agency said.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin also pushed back on calls by Austin officials and some House Democrats that ICE leave Austin in the wake of Sunday's shooting of Garces Perez, who DHS alleged was in the country illegally and had a final order of removal.
"If sanctuary politicians like the Mayor of Austin had their priorities straight, they'd stop putting the needs of illegal aliens over the safety of the American people," Mullin said in a social media post on Tuesday. "The men and women of @ICEgov have arrested some of the most heinous criminal illegal aliens in Texas, including terrorists, pedophiles, drug traffickers, and fugitives wanted for murder."
Garces Perez's attorney, Kat Lincoln-Goldfinch, said her client was in the country legally and had applied for asylum.
Law enforcement sources have told ABC News the ICE officer involved in the shooting of Garces Perez was not wearing a body-worn camera at the time of the incident.
"DHS will NEVER apologize for removing these criminals from our communities, because deporting illegal aliens saves lives," Mullin said in his post on X.
On Tuesday, the mother of Renee Good, the 37-year-old Minneapolis, Minnesota, woman fatally shot by an ICE agent in January, spoke out at a congressional hearing in Washington, D.C.
Good's mother, Donna Granger, told the joint hearing of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that she voted for President Donald Trump.
The lawmakers held a hearing on Tuesday with families impacted by deadly ICE-involved shootings after the Austin shooting.
"I voted for President Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the United States, innocents like our family and the others here, against terrorists," Granger said. "Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness."
The ICE agent who shot Good has not been charged with any crime connected to the shooting of Good, who was an American citizen.
The family of Lorenzo Salgado, a 52-year-old Mexican man fatally shot by an ICE agent in Houston in July, said at the joint hearing that they have received no answers from the government on the death.
"It's been two and a half months, and we still don’t have my dad's belongings back," Lorenzo Salgado Jr. told the lawmakers. "Aside from some change that he kept in his pocket, we don't have his wallet or his phone. We have no idea where his things are or who might have them."
During a news conference on Monday in Austin, Roman Palomares, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), also evoked Salgado's death while calling for an independent investigation of Garces Perez's shooting.
"Seventy-five days after Houston, Texas, we still do not know who pulled the trigger, and we're still counting," Palomares said, referring to Salgado's shooting.
Sulma Franco, director of the Grassroots Leadership Immigration Campaign, issued an emotional statement at Monday's news conference in Austin, saying, "I'm one of many, many voices of people that are being terrorized right now by ICE."
"We have a community hotline where community members have been reporting the abuses," Franco said. "We ask the community to not fall asleep, to not go back to business as normal, and to get involved. Migration is not illegal. It’s part of nature. And we’re here to say today, we want ICE out of Austin."
ABC News' Ely Brown and Luke Barr contributed to this report.
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