VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-08-22
“to see if I could get away with it.”
Ernesto Alejandro Perez-Garcia · said 2026-08-20 · reported 2026-08-22
Perez-Garcia explained why he initially lied about his identity when confronted by ICE agents.
This quote was mechanically extracted from the cited article and verified as an exact substring of the source text before publication. Attribution follows the article's own wording.