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A Kentucky State University women’s basketball player was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement when she arrived at the airport in Louisville to fly to New York for a tournament. Her attorney says 26-year-old Aminata Seck is from Senegal and is in the United States on a student visa. Sadiqa Reynolds wrote that Seck was detained on Aug. 7 at Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport. The Louisville Courier Journal, which first reported Seck’s arrest, wrote that Reynolds said Seck may have missed a student visa deadline because she was having back surgery, and that she also has an ACL injury.

A Democratic congressman says a Venezuelan man shot by a federal immigration officer in Texas has been told by a specialist he needs surgery to remove a bullet near his spine. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was taken to an ICE detention center hours after he was shot Sunday. U.S. Rep. Greg Casar says the 28-year-old is in constant pain with a bloody wound. He was shot while making a DoorDash delivery in Austin. ICE has not explained the shooting, only saying the incident was a "targeted vehicle stop." It follows a summer of increased ICE enforcement in Austin, with over 1,000 arrests, mostly of immigrants without criminal records.

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U.S. Rep. Greg Casar and members of his staff leave the South Texas ICE Processing Center where he visited with Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a Venezuelan man shot by an ICE officer, in Pearsall, Texas, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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U.S. Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, arrives to the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall, Texas, on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, to visit Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, a Venezuelan man who was shot by an ICE officer in Austin. (Mikala Compton/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

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A group of migrants on a boat wave to others still in the water as they try to cross the channel from France to Britain on a dinghy boat, in Hardelot, northern France, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

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The attorney for a Venezuelan man shot by a federal immigration officer in Texas says he's back in an ICE detention center after being taken to a hospital for a second time. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was being held Tuesday at a federal center in South Texas. His attorney says Perez was making a DoorDash delivery Sunday in Austin when immigration officers in an unmarked vehicle sideswiped his car and forced it to stop. Perez was shot and taken to a hospital. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday.

Elizdar, wife of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a Venezuelan man shot by an ICE officer, center, and attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, left, listen to Perez via a phone call during a news conference in Austin, Texas, Monday, Sept. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Elizdar, wife of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a Venezuelan man shot by an ICE officer, center, and attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, left, listen to Perez via a phone call during a news conference in Austin, Texas, Monday, Sept. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Elizdar, wife of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a Venezuelan man shot by an ICE officer, right, stands with attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, left, during a news conference in Austin, Texas, Monday, Sept. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Elizdar, wife of Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a Venezuelan man shot by an ICE officer, right, stands with attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, left, during a news conference in Austin, Texas, Monday, Sept. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)