ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison sued Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday, seeking to compel the extradition of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent to stand trial for assault and falsely reporting a crime in the wounding of a man during the agency’s crackdown in Minneapolis.
Ellison said he would request a temporary restraining order barring the Cameron County Sheriff’s Office in Texas from releasing ICE agent Christian Castro and requiring Abbott to sign the extradition warrant allowing Minnesota law enforcement agents to take custody of him.
Castro was arrested 11 days after Minneapolis prosecutors charged him with assault and falsely reporting a crime in the Jan. 14 nonfatal shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis. The criminal complaint alleges that Castro fired a gun at the front door of a home in Minneapolis, striking a victim in the leg before lodging in a child’s bedroom wall, and then knowingly provided false information to an officer about it.
Ellison told a news conference that unless he’s extradited, Castro could be released from jail as early as next week — 90 days since he was detained — under Texas law. And if he’s freed, Castro could slip into Mexico from the border town where he’s being held, Ellison said. The lawsuit said Castro has been making calls from jail to a woman in Mexico, talking “about marrying her and buying a house in Mexico when he is released.”
So a former ICE officer is going to go to Mexico to hide from American law enforcement after shooting and brutalizing Mexican immigrants in the USA? I’m thinking that Castro may not have thought his cunning plan all the way through. There are going to be a lot of people down there who have family members who have been, or are currently being abused by ICE. I suspect he is going to disappear one evening and they’ll never find all of him to bury. It may not be the justice we want, but it may be all the justice we’re going to get.
This is good, if we are least hold these thugs accountable for their crimes that’s progress. They shouldn’t be out there committing felonies in response to misdemeanors or people merely exercising their freedom of speech.
