An unlawful immigrant who was shot at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Dallas final week remains to be preventing for his life, as his closely pregnant spouse says her fifth youngster is due any day.
Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, 31, a Mexican nationwide, was one in all three detainees shot in an ICE transport van on the Texas facility after sniper Joshua Jahn opened fireplace, NBC DFW reported.
He's at the moment on life help at Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital after being critically injured in final Wednesday's taking pictures, his spouse Stephany Gauffeny told NPR.
Fellow detainee Norlan Guzman Fuentes, a 37-year-old from El Salvador, was killed in final week's taking pictures, whereas Venezuelan nationwide Jose Andre Bordones-Molina was injured, the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Workplace advised NBC DFW.
ICE described all three as “legal unlawful aliens” in an announcement to NPR confirming the identities of the victims.
Garcia-Hernandez, who was within the US with out authorized standing working as a home painter, was detained by ICE after being arrested on Aug. 8 for a DUI, Gauffeny stated, as she spoke of her concern that he'll die earlier than seeing his unborn son.
“It hurts to assume like, what if he by no means even will get to satisfy him,” she stated, describing how tough it's to go to him within the hospital, the place he stays in ICE custody.
“After I first arrived on the hospital, he was shackled, although he couldn't transfer,” she stated.
Gauffeny, a US citizen, stated she had been attempting to safe everlasting residency for her husband when he was detained.
The couple met after they have been 15 years outdated, began courting after they have been 19, and have been married for a decade, she stated.
Collectively, they've 4 children, ages 3, 8, 12, and 14.
“He spoiled them lots … and so they miss him,” Gauffeny stated, including that she hasn't advised the children what occurred to their father.
“I need his title to be identified. I need individuals to know who he actually was. He wasn't simply an immigrant or a detainee, or a legal,” Gauffeny stated, including that she hoped ICE amenities can be supplied with extra safety sooner or later.
A GoFundMe has since been set as much as cowl the household's groceries and payments, as Garcia-Hernandez was the principle supply of revenue.
