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Federal prosecutors charge Venezuelan man shot by ICE agent in Texas with assaulting an officer

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Federal prosecutors in Texas announced on Tuesday assault charges against a Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot in the back by immigration enforcement agents on Sunday. A federal complaint alleges Wilber Rafael Garces-Perez, 28, tried to escape Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who pulled him over after a judge issued a final removal order, according to U.S. Attorney Justin R. Simmons for the Western District of Texas. The complaint accuses him of sideswiping an officer with his driver’s side car mirror and later attempting to strike an officer with his car. If convicted Garces-Perez faces up to 20 years in prison. An attorney for Garces-Perez declined to immediately comment on Tuesday morning. Garces-Perez allegedly provided his driver’s license, but ignored agents’ requests to step out of the car. He allegedly engaged in a Spanish conversation with one of the federal officers about moving the car and parking it, and the court documents state “the conversational tone was pleasa