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.
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)
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)
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)
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)


