On Friday afternoon, a gloomy procession followed its coffin to a funeral mass. “We have a lot of pain,” Villegas’s older brother, Jorge Villegas, told Reuters.
“With everything sad that this is, at least my brother is already here, we can already give him a Christian burial, this is a relief in a certain way.”
(Photo: Juan José Estrada Serafín/Cuartoscuro)
The murder of Villegas, just after leaving his two children in a primary school and a close nursery, has inflamed the tension on the aggressive repression of the immigration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and has relieved the increasingly violent tactics of immigration agents.
“He was a good father. He did not deserve what happened to him,” said Brother Jorge.
The United States National Security Department said an agent fired his weapon Front Villegas in self -defense after the man drove his vehicle to the agents.
The recordings of the body cameras and the documents reviewed by Reuters They show a more complex version of the facts.
Both the governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, and the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, have requested that the tactics of ICE agents be thoroughly investigated.
“I really hope justice is done. Dawn as things killed him, how things happened, they can’t run out of punishment,” Jorge said.
Blanca Ávila, who went to school with Villegas, said he remembers him as a humble man and a good classmate, and that his death has aroused fears in his brothers who live in the United States.
“They go to work with the fear that migration will arrive and do something, as well as step with the partner,” said Ávila.
“We are humble and very hardworking people, such as Silverio”
(Iván Arias report in Iimbo and Lizbeth Díaz in Mexico City; Brendan O’Boyle’s Drafting in Mexico City; Kim Coghill edition)
