According to what was stated by the American television network Univision, Marco Antonio Roblero Pérezan immigrant Guatemalan 25 years old, remains hospitalized with a broken nose, broken teeth and multiple blows to the face and body, after being detained by immigration agents in Atlanta, Georgia.
The family by Marco Antonio Roblero Pérez revealed to Univision that, during the arrest of a Guatemalan immigrant in Atlanta, Georgia, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents allegedly broke several of his teeth and shocked him with an electroshock weapon.
That weapon is designed to incapacitate a person or a animal through electric shocks that imitate nerve signals and confuse motor muscles, mainly those of the arms and legs, which immobilizes temporarily to the target. However, to date, ICE has not issued a position about it.
According to Univisión, the arrest occurred in front of a gas stationwhere Marco Antonio and two of his companions stopped to buy drinks while on their way to work. For this reason, the Guatemalan remains in immigration custody while he recovers from his injuries in the room of a hospitalwatched by an agent.
The story from an Atlanta hospital
The 25-year-old Guatemalan immigrant, Marco Antonio Roblero Pérez, recounted, from a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, the blows and the wounds that he suffered after his arrest, while his family questions the attention medical that he received and ICE immigration agents claim that they used a stun gun to temporarily immobilize him.
“I know that the Eternal will protect him,” he added. Jennifer PerezMarco’s cousin, who was interviewed by the television network Telemundo after Roblero finished with him bloody facebruises and fractures on his nose, teeth and arms after being detained by ICE agents for being in immigration status irregular.
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“My arms they hurt me, my neck “It hurts a lot and I can hardly breathe well,” added Marco Antonio Roblero Pérez when visited by Jennifer Pérez, who was able to see him in the hospital in Atlanta, Georgia for a few minutes with the permission of one of the ICE agents, who only gave him five minutes to talk and attend to his cousin.
“When we spoke with the agent he told us that they were going to keep him there until he was will recoverbut that’s not what they did,” said Jennifer, after mentioning that Marco Antonio’s family is very concerned because she does not know if Roblero is receiving the necessary medical attention before being transferred to a detention center.
They report injuries to a Guatemalan after arrest
Marco Antonio Roblero Pérez said that during the morning of last Saturday July 18at a gas station in Atlanta, Georgia, several ICE agents cornered him along with two other immigrants who worked with him at a transportation company. gardening. “He says that patrol It hit them and that’s why they started to run“Jennifer added.
Given the circumstances, the spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security indicated that Roblero Pérez tried flee “dangerous way” by ICE by pushing the door of his vehicle against a car driven by an agent, causing damage. “The migrant refused to obey and escaped onto a busy road,” the spokesperson explained.
“Due to the Guatemalan’s reckless refusal to obey, ICE agents used a stun gun and prevented him from attacking the traffic that was coming in the opposite direction,” concluded the spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHSfor its acronym in English) before public opinion for the case of Marco Antonio Pérez.