Federal judge refuses to order Texas to extradite ICE officer

On 2026-08-26, a federal judge declined to order Texas Governor Greg Abbott to extradite an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer charged by Minnesota authorities with shooting a Venezuelan man and lying about it during immigration enforcement operations.

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Abbott tells judge Minnesota's ICE officer extradition lawsuit ‘doomed to fail’

rss:thehillus_mainstream36d ago kagi ↗

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) asserted to a judge Monday that he’s not obligated to hand over an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent charged by Minnesota authorities with shooting a Venezuelan man earlier this year during “Operation Metro Surge.” Minnesota is pushing in court to force the extradition of ICE agent Christian Castro, with...

Abbott fights Minnesota lawsuit on ICE officer extradition

stream:bsky-jetstreamother36d ago kagi ↗

It is odd that the party that has pretty much portrayed Ruby Ridge as a modern Boston Massacre, not to mention the manifesto that it produced afterwards as such, is the same party rejecting justice for an alleged crime by an fanatical federal goverment worker. www.texastribune.org/2026/08/24/t... The Texas governor said he has doubts Christian Castro is a fugitive subject to extradition, adding th

# News A federal judge on Wednesday refused to order Texas to extradite an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer charged with shooting a man and lying about it during the immigration crackdown i

mastodon:mstdn-socialother34d ago kagi ↗

# News A federal judge on Wednesday refused to order Texas to extradite an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer charged with shooting a man and lying about it during the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. Christian Castro is charged in Minnesota with assault and falsely reporting a crime in the Jan. 14 shooting of 24-year-old Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis. Under Texas law and barring extraditio