Minnesota official sues Texas governor to force ICE agent’s extradition

State Attorney General Keith Ellison has called for the transfer of an ICE agent accused of lying about a nonfatal shooting.Minnesota’s attorney general is suing the governor of Texas to force the extradition of a federal agent charged with shooting and wounding a man during President Donald Trump’s Immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison argued that Texas Governor Greg Abbott has refused to fulfil his “mandatory” obligation to transfer Immigration-and-customs-enforcement" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="142597" data-entity-type="organization">Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Christian Castro, so that he may stand trial.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Former senior ICE official says rush for numbers is causing deathslist 2 of 4ICE extends lease on Texas detention centre where three migrants diedlist 3 of 4Most Americans say Trump has gone too far on US Immigration: Polllist 4 of 4US plans to equip ICE officers with electric-shock glovesend of list“Governor Abbott has withheld the warrant and held up Castro’s extradition for nearly three months,” Ellison told reporters on Tuesday. “He has no discretion to decline to do so.”Ellison also asked the US district court in southern Texas to bar Cameron County Sheriff Manuel Trevino from allowing Castro’s release from jail.Castro’s case has become part of a national debate over transparency and excessive violence during Trump’s mass deportation campaign.The agent was involved in the January 14 shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, a Venezuelan man living in Minnesota. Officials allege that Castro fired a gun into Sosa-Celis’s front door, striking him in the leg.Initially, the Trump administration said the agents had fired in self-defence, accusing Sosa-Celis and two other people of attacking officers with a broom and a snow shovel during an Immigration enforcement operation.Then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem went so far as to call the incident the “attempted murder” of an ICE agent.But video emerged contradicting the ICE agents’ testimony, and in February, federal prosecutors dropped the charges they had filed against Sosa-Celis and his housemate, Alfredo Aljorna.