On Wednesday, Fox News host Will Cain on his eponymous show devoted a segment to fact-checking liberals who have peddled misinformation against ICE over the shooting of an illegal alien in Austin.
The Will Cain Show
September 23, 2026
4:24 p.m. Eastern
WILL CAIN: Three days after the ICE shooting in Austin, we're getting a closer look at the lies and the facts. Just in to our newsroom, we're getting a look at surveillance video. It shows the illegal immigrant's car speeding away from police, confirming there was a pursuit.
(clips of the ICE vehicles with emergency lights on pursuing a car)
New bodycam video shows the moments before and after the shooting with the Venezuelan illegal immigrant still inside his car before Austin police help him out and begin to treat his wounds. And now, DHS putting out a fact check on the lies coming from the left. First, the left asks, "Why was ICE going after a DoorDash driver in the first place?" To that, DHS says, "His job had nothing to do with it." The department says this wasn't random. It was a targeted vehicle stop based on his immigration status.
Many of the lies are coming from the illegal immigrant's own attorney, like that he wasn't getting pain medication. DHS says that's false -- he's receiving round the clock medical care including pain medication. She also claims ICE refused to have the bullet removed to which DHS says ICE doesn't make that decision -- that's a medical procedure and a decision for the hospital.
Then there's the lie that he had a valid work permit. We've heard this numerous times. DHS says that work permit expired last year. But even if it hadn't, a work permit doesn't give someone legal status. Which brings us to the root issue here -- the contention that he was here legally. That's one of the lies. DHS says false. They put out these facts cleanly yesterday for anyone to see, but that didn't stop Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico from saying this this morning.
JAMES TALARICO (D-TX) SENATE CANDIDATE: Peres came to this country legally. He has no criminal record, yet ICE agents shot him in the back three times while he was doing his job making food deliveries. This is outrageous. And I think most people want to see accountability. They promised they would go after criminals. How does paralyzing a DoorDash driver make anyone more safe?
CAIN: Talarico is wedded to these stories -- the lies, no matter the facts. But where does it all originate? So many of the lies (that) have been peddled and swallowed by the left originated from the illegal immigrant's attorney. And she's also the same person that said he was a legal immigrant who entered legally and was issued a work permit, all of which DHS says isn't true.
But this is also the attorney for this illegal immigrant. Her name is Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, and she posted this: "How do you resist getting shot in the neck? Does Charlie Kirk have any advice on that?"
That post has since been deleted? I guess she had second thoughts. But I think that reveals the character of the person peddling these lies and, with so many stories, consider the source.
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They made the contention, Tom, that he's sleeping on the floor and that didn't spend enough time in the hospital.
TOM HOMAN, BORDER CZAR: Look, the hospital released him. That's a medical decision made by an independent doctor. And he's in an ICE facility, and I'll say it again: ICE has the highest detention standards in the industry. They have access to doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and, you know, he's being well taken care of. But the doctors at the hospital make that decision when he should he be released. And he has a bed. It's just, you know, Will, it's just a continuation of lies about ICE detention.
It's just like back -- remember Delaney Hall where the governor said there was a hunger strike and all these congressmen jumped on it, you know, "There's a hunger strike up there -- people aren't getting their medication." And I went up there unannounced, and I sat in the cafeteria with aliens that are being detained. I ate the same meals they ate. There was never a hunger strike, the food wasn't bad. The people who weren't eating in the cafeteria were eating on the commissary. Of course they didn't say anything about that. Everybody was getting their medication.
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It's just lie after lie after lie, and when the facts come out, you never see them come out and say, "Well, okay, we were wrong. We reported it wrong." No, it's just a constant vilification of ICE. And that leads to why more people out there do not comply with lawful orders from ICE who are federal law enforcement officers. They feel emboldened because they keep hearing, "ICE are the Nazis or the racists or the secret police -- they're not real law enforcement." All this stuff feeds into this.
