Family Files Claim Over ‘Execution-Style’ ICE Murder of Silverio Villegas González

Organizations representing the family of Silverio Villegas González filed a legal claim against President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday over an immigration agent’s “execution-style killing” of the 38-year-old Mexican man in Illinois last year.

Trump deployed agents from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to Chicago and its suburbs, including Franklin Park, in September 2025 for “Operation Midway Blitz,” part of the president’s mass detention and deportation agenda.

Shortly after Villegas González dropped off his young sons at school and daycare on September 12, 2025, a team stopped their vehicle in front of his, and an unidentified Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot him. Video footage has contradicted DHS claims that he refused to follow commands and “drove his car at law enforcement officers.”

DHS told the Sun-Times earlier this year that federal prosecutors declined to charge the agent who killed Villegas González, without offering a public explanation, and the Tribune pointed out on Thursday that an ongoing Illinois probe has run into issues:

Illinois State Police announced in May that the Franklin Park Police Department requested that its Public Integrity Task Force investigate the shooting. Once completed, the investigation is expected to be turned over to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office.

But Gov. JB Pritzker said that the federal government’s refusal to provide requested evidence and make agents available for interviews has made the state investigation “near impossible to complete.”

The federal government, he said, has not provided information Illinois requested about the shooting or made agents available to give testimony.

“It has been more than a year and yet there has been zero accountability for Silverio’s unjustified death from the federal government,” Manes highlighted. “Even after Silverio was senselessly killed, immigration officers have continued shooting at people inside their cars and have killed several other victims.” [MORE]