Minnesota Judge Denies ICE Officer Extradition, Opens Door for Castro's Release
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Judge denies Minnesota bid to extradite ICE officer from Texas, paving way for his release from custordy Minnesota officials believe Castro could flee to Mexico, citing calls he made from jail to a woman in Mexico, talking "about marrying her and buying a house in Mexico when he is released," according to the lawsuit.
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Fox NewsChristian Castro, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent charged in connection with a non-fatal January shooting in Minneapolis, was released Thursday from a south Texas jail after a federal judge denied Minnesota’s emergency request to keep him in custody and compel Abbott to sign the extradition warrant. Texas law generally limits pre-extradition detention to 90 days, and Abbott has not yet decided whether to approve Minnesota’s request.
BreitbartMinnesota officials believe, due to the alleged content of a recorded jail message, that Castro will flee to Mexico after his release, the AP added. Judge Rodriguez addressed the threat to flee in his order, stating that the potential flight risk detailed in Minnesota’s petition does not override Texas law.
Washington TimesICE Officer Christian Castro walked out of a Texas jail early Thursday, free for the first time in 90 days, after Minnesota’s bid to get him extradited to face assault charges stalled.
New York TimesICE agent Christian Castro Released From Texas Jail After Minnesota Loses Court Fight The state had sought to have the agent extradited from Texas to answer charges in Minneapolis related to an on-duty shooting that wounded an immigrant.
The Guardian USMinnesota officials believe Castro could flee to Mexico. Minnesota’s attorney general, Keith Ellison, filed a request for a temporary restraining order last week seeking to block Castro’s release or to order his return to Minnesota.
Associated PressAfter a Minnesota judge issued a nationwide warrant for Castro’s arrest in May, authorities, including Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, arrested Castro in Cameron County on May 29. Minnesota authorities have sought his extradition since his arrest, but he remained in custody in Brownsville, a city bordering Mexico.
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Ellison’s concerns about Texas becoming a sanctuary state for violent criminals fell on deaf ears in Texas, in part because of Minnesota’s continued refusal to turn over illegal aliens with violent criminal histories to ICE officers.
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Fox NewsMinnesota's progressive Attorney General Keith Ellison accused Texas Gov. Greg Abbott of turning the Lone Star State into a "sanctuary state for violent criminals" after an ICE agent charged in the shooting of a man in Minneapolis was released from a Texas jail, escalating a politically charged extradition fight between the two states.
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"You guys are such bad lawyers. You showed up unprepared, uninformed & unpersuasive. You don't know the law & it showed," Abbott wrote on X in response to Ellison's post calling Texas a "sanctuary state for violent criminals."
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BreitbartIn a war of words between the two states, AG Ellison stated, “Greg Abbott is turning Texas into a sanctuary state for violent criminals.”
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Castro is accused of firing a gun through the front door of a Minneapolis home, shooting Sosa-Celis in the leg. Prosecutors say Castro also falsely accused Sosa-Celis and another man of attacking an ICE officer with a broom handle and a snow shovel.
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BreitbartThe AP reported: Castro is accused of firing a gun through the front door of a Minneapolis home, shooting Sosa-Celis in the leg. Prosecutors say Castro also falsely accused Sosa-Celis and another man of attacking an ICE officer with a broom handle and a snow shovel.
Associated PressCastro is accused of firing gun through door of home Castro is accused of firing a gun through the front door of a Minneapolis home, shooting Sosa-Celis in the leg. Prosecutors say Castro also falsely accused Sosa-Celis and another man of attacking an ICE officer with a broom handle and a snow shovel.
Fox NewsCastro faces four felony counts of second-degree assault and one misdemeanor count of falsely reporting a crime – charges filed by a Minnesota state court. He is accused of firing through the front door of an occupied north Minneapolis home during an ICE operation in January, striking Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg. Castro has maintained that he acted in self-defense.
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01 Fox News "This is not politics — this is not a game," Ellison said in a statement after Castro’s release. "If a governor can delay extraditions and cherry-pick cases according to their political tastes, then no state will be able to hold fugitive criminals accountable."
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02 The Guardian US A day earlier, US district judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr wrote in an order that said he could not prevent a county sheriff from releasing Castro or order the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, to sign his extradition warrant.
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03 Associated Press A day earlier, U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. wrote in an order that said he couldn’t prevent a county sheriff from releasing Castro or order Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to sign his extradition warrant.
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04 Breitbart The Cameron County Sheriff’s Office released the ICE officer who is wanted in Minnesota for an officer-involved shooting incident. The release came after Texas Governor Greg Abbott did not sign the rendition extradition requested by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
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05 Washington Times Federal authorities said Thursday that a Fairfax County man deemed mentally unfit to face murder charges in 2019 deported himself to Tajikistan last month while on an unsupervised weekend pass.
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