"Months before ICE agents' tactics were put in the national spotlight by the deaths of two civilians in Minneapolis, José Castro-Rivera, a young man from Honduras, was hit by a vehicle on a busy interstate highway in Virginia. He was running to escape arrest during what ICE officers described as a "targeted, intelligence-based immigration enforcement operation." Castro-Rivera, 25, died on the spot."
"Four months earlier, on June 10, 2025, Jaime Alanis Garcia, a Mexican immigrant, fell from the top of a greenhouse in Camarillo, California, during an ICE raid at a cannabis facility. Garcia, 56, died two days later. Then, in August, just over 60 miles away in Southern California, a 52-year-old Guatemalan immigrant, Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez, was also hit by an SUV on a freeway while evading ICE officers."
"Less than a month later, another person was killed in Chicago by federal agents. On September 12, 2025, Silverio Villegas González was shot "multiple" times in his car by ICE agents amid the agency's infamous "Operation Midway Blitz." ICE did not identify the agents involved in the killings of Castro-Rivera, Garcia, and Valdez. While the October death came with the promise of a formal report within 90 days,"
Multiple immigrants died during separate Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations across the United States in 2025. José Castro-Rivera, 25, a Honduran man, was struck and killed on a Virginia interstate while running to evade officers during a targeted, intelligence-based operation. Jaime Alanis Garcia, 56, fell from a greenhouse during an ICE raid at a Camarillo cannabis facility and died two days later. Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez, 52, was hit by an SUV on a Southern California freeway while evading agents. Silverio Villegas González was shot multiple times in his car in Chicago during Operation Midway Blitz. ICE did not identify the agents and did not publicly track or log the fatal arrest incidents.
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