VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-08-22
“Once I saw the officer … with the picture of me, there was no way I was going to run,”
Ernesto Alejandro Perez-Garcia · said 2026-08-20 · reported 2026-08-22
Perez-Garcia recounted the moment ICE agents stopped him on his morning walk.
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