ICE enforcement ends in death of farmworkers, leaving anger and questions
Story Date: 4/23/2018

 

Source: LA TIMES, 4/19/18


Celestino Hilario Garcia, his eyes bloodshot and his voice raw, struggled to explain that his brother's and sister-in-law's deaths were not his fault.A month ago, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had trained their sights on Santos Hilario Garcia. In the early morning darkness, they followed in two black Jeeps as he and his wife, Marcelina Garcia Profecto, dropped their teenage daughter off at Robert F. Kennedy High School. Minutes later, the couple were dead, having crashed their truck as they tried to escape the agents. ICE officials later said that the ...

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