Justice finally caught up with Christian Castro, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who personifies one of the darkest episodes of recent immigration enforcement.
After months of impunity, the ICE agent in Texas was arrested Friday, accused not only of shooting a Venezuelan migrant in Minnesota, but of orchestrating a web of lies to blame his victim and cover up his own assault.
The trap: A shovel, a broom and a false report
🇺🇸 An ICE agent in Minnesota got charged with assault after video blew up his agency’s own version of events.
Christian Castro shot Venezuelan immigrant Julio Sosa-Celis through a front door during a botched arrest. The bullet lodged in a child’s bedroom wall.
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It all began in January, during the violent “Metro Surge” mega-operation.
Castro shot Julio Cesar Sosa, a non-threatening Venezuelan migrant, in the leg.
To justify the shooting, Castro and another agent swore under protest that Sosa had attacked them with a shovel and a broomstick.
The lie was so convincing that the Justice Department went so far as to prosecute the migrants for assault.
However, the version collapsed when videos came to light that totally contradicted the official version.
The migrants never attacked; they were the victims of an agent who decided to pull the trigger and then invent a crime.
Operation “Metro Surge”: A Trail of Blood
Castro’s arrest puts the aggressiveness of current immigration tactics under scrutiny.
During that same deployment in Minneapolis, the chaos escalated to fatal levels: agents not only wounded Sosa, but shot and killed two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
According to data from The Trace, under the current administration, immigration officials have shot 24 people across the country, leaving 6 dead and 13 wounded.
“This arrest is a critical breakthrough,” stated prosecutor Mary Moriarty, stressing that carrying a badge is not a license to lie or shoot.
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