Mexican president demands investigation of shooting death by ICE

Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum condemned the murder of a Mexican immigrant by an American immigration and customs agent last week in the western suburbs of Franklin Park.

This week, the Mexican government has published a diplomatic note to the American authorities demanding “an in -depth investigation” on the September 12 death of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, 38, from Michoacan, Mexico.

“We do not agree with what is happening,” said Sheinbaum during his daily briefing on Wednesday. “Thus, we are working on a specific diplomatic note concerning these questions. Several have already been made, but this in particular concerns this case and other cases related to human rights violations.”

Sheinbaum said the Mexican government requires all information concerning the deadly government shooting. The Mexican consulate in Chicago and the Mexico Embassy in Washington will closely follow the case with the federal authorities, according to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Villegas Gonzalez was shot dead after pretending to try to flee a traffic stop and hit an ice officer with his vehicle. According to a Gofundme organized to pay for funeral expensesHe was shot dead after putting his sons at school.

Federal officials, on the other hand, said that the officer who had opened fire had acted in an appropriate manner and fear for his life. He recovered serious leg injuries on Friday in a local hospital, where his condition stabilized.

The Ministry of Internal Security said in a written declaration that Villegas Gonzalez is a citizen of Mexico and was illegally in the United States, although other details have not been provided.

According to the DHS, immigration agents made a vehicle stop on Friday morning to arrest Villegas Gonzalez, who has an imprudent infringement file.

The files show that a man whose names and age correspond to Villegas Gonzalez have received a number of traffic tickets in the county of Cook, but a first search of the gallery has not revealed any criminal incident locally.

Villegas Gonzalez “refused to follow the commandments of the police and led his car” to the officers, hitting one of the ice agents and dragging it “an important distance”, said the DHS press release. “Fearing for his life, the officer unloaded his gun and hit the subject.”

Agent and Villegas Gonzalez were taken to the Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where Villegas Gonzalez was declared the authorities.

The shooting in the typically calm suburbs of the working class, which has a population which is more than half Hispanic, immediately brought calls to the transparency of the political leaders of Illinois and to the condemnation of the activists who decried the “aggressive” tactics of immigration agents. A few hours after the fatal incident, the American representative Jesús “Chuy” García and the American representative Delia Ramirez, both Democrats in Chicago and other officials, called for a complete survey on the shooting.

Villegas Gonzalez died in the middle of the Department of Internal Security of President Donald Trump Elements of the application of immigration laws in ChicagoNicknamed “Operation Midway Blitz”. The administration claims the current operation, launched in early September, targets “illegal criminal foreigners” which took advantage of the policies of the city and the sanctuary of the State.

On Wednesday, during the Sheinbaum morning briefing, she condemned violence and the alleged human rights violations against the Mexican immigrant community in the United States.