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Judge blocks Minnesota bid to extradite Texas ICE agent accused of shooting man

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A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge in New York on 10 June 2025. Photograph: Yuki Iwamura/AP

A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent accused of firing his gun and wounding a Venezuelan man in the leg is caught in an interstate extradition dispute between Texas and Minnesota – and could walk out of a Texas jail as soon as Wednesday after a federal judge refused to intervene.

Christian Castro is charged in Minnesota with assault and falsely reporting a crime by another, in relation to the incident in which he was involved in the wounding of 24-year-old Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in January.

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