{"id":276275,"date":"2025-10-04T04:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/276275\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T04:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:30:16","slug":"son-of-detainee-killed-in-ice-shooting-was-born-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/276275\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of detainee killed in ICE shooting was born on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dozens of people gathered Friday night at a vigil at Dallas City Hall to condemn violence against immigrants and to demand justice for Norl\u00e1n Guzm\u00e1n Fuentes and Miguel Angel Garc\u00eda Hern\u00e1ndez, who died in the shooting at the ICE offices<\/a> in Dallas on Sept. 24, and for Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s Bordones Molina, who was wounded.<\/p>\n

With electronic candles lit in the shape of a heart, people laid flowers and messages of protest for what they consider a failure of the government not only to protect the lives of those in its custody<\/a>, but also to foster an atmosphere of division in communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the government detains someone, it takes on a solemn responsibility: to keep them safe and sound. A jail cell, a detention center, a holding facility \u2014 these are places where lives are in the government\u2019s hands,\u201d said Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, an immigration attorney who attended the vigil. \u201cWhen people die or suffer violence in custody, it is not only a tragedy, it is a failure of duty and of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trump Administration ramped up immigration enforcement efforts<\/a> after his second inauguration in January, in order to tackle what Republicans call a swell of migrants across the border. <\/p>\n

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The White House framed the situation as a national security crisis, prompting measures to deter undocumented migration and tighten asylum rules, which have fueled fear in immigrant communities<\/a> and deepened polarization on this issue in the United States.<\/p>\n

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A vigil for the ICE shooting victims was held at City Hall in Dallas, Texas, Friday, October 3, 2025. <\/p>\n

Anja Schlein \/ Special Contributor<\/p>\n

Eric Cedillo, the immigration attorney who represents Stephanie Gauffeny, the widow of Miguel Angel Garc\u00eda Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a>, revealed that she had her son on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe had a beautiful baby boy named Alexander Garc\u00eda, who will never know his father because Miguel\u2019s life was taken absolutely for no reason,\u201d said Cedillo.<\/p>\n

The lawyer said that on the day of the shooting, Garc\u00eda was inside the van with an 18-year-old boy with whom he was talking about his family.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd in an instant, the bullets crashed through the window and hit Miguel,\u201d Cedillo said. \u201cHe turned to that boy and said, \u2018I don\u2019t think I\u2019m going to make it. Get underneath me, let me shield you.\u2019 That\u2019s the story that needs to get out, the heroism of Miguel Garc\u00eda.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A vigil for the ICE shooting victims was held at City Hall in Dallas, Texas, Friday, October 3, 2025. <\/p>\n

Anja Schlein \/ Special Contributor<\/p>\n

During the vigil, a message from the sister of Norl\u00e1n Guzm\u00e1n Fuentes<\/a>, a Salvadoran who died on the day of the shooting, was read. She recounted that on Aug. 24, her brother was the victim of violence and was recovering in the hospital from a stabbing, and there, the police arrested him.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe wants people to know that she was told she will not be able to see her brother\u2019s body and will only be allowed to have a two-hour funeral and will not be able to have an open casket,\u201d said Janet Mart\u00ednez of Vecinos Unidos DFW. \u201cShe wants people to know that she was told she did not have to identify her brother\u2019s body because they took his fingerprints. She wants justice for her brother.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A vigil for the ICE shooting victims was held at City Hall in Dallas, Texas, Friday, October 3, 2025. <\/p>\n

Anja Schlein \/ Special Contributor<\/p>\n

Activists called for an end to what they call a hostile environment against immigrants, as peaceful coexistence is difficult when \u201cwe are being encouraged to turn on one another,\u201d said Eric Folkerth, senior pastor of Kessler Park UMC United Methodist Church, in Dallas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not how America is supposed to be. The rhetoric and the action of our government are driving dangerous wedges into the heart of American neighborhoods,\u201d said Folkerth.<\/p>\n

The final call was for citizens to register to vote<\/a> in the upcoming elections so they can influence the future of the country\u2019s immigration policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of people gathered Friday night at a vigil at Dallas City Hall to condemn violence against immigrants…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":276276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,4219,1596,134303,409,80,358,3187,61,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-276275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-ice-office-shooting","12":"tag-immigration","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-u-s-news","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115314021391198096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}