Media accounts reported that protesters "quickly organized" a spontaneous anti-ICE protest at an Austin, Texas, intersection following the shooting of a Venezuelan man by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.But a Fox News Digital investigation shows that the protests are being promoted and organized by a coordinated network of far-left socialist and communist groups, including the Democratic Socialists of America, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which works closely with nonprofits funded by Neville Roy Singham, a communist American-born tech tycoon living in Shanghai.Congressional lawmakers are investigating the Singham network for allegedly fomenting the image of "chaos" in the U.S., including anti-ICE protests from Minneapolis to the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, N.J.Sure enough, Sunday evening, BreakThrough News, a pro-communist media platform operated by BreakThrough BT Media, a nonprofit funded by Singham, published a "BREAKING NEWS" report from Texas with the headline: "Austin erupts in protest…"Protesters confront police officers (not picured) after city officials said that a U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot a person earlier in the day in Austin, Texas, U.S.September 20, 2026. (Nuri Vallbona/Reuters)AUSTIN ICE SHOOTING SPARKS FIGHT OVER VENEZUELAN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT'S DEPORTATIONThe shooting occurred Sunday afternoon at about 12:56 p.m.
Central Time near Anderson Square and Research Boulevard in Austin.Authorities said an ICE officer shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, a 28-year-old Venezuelan national, during a traffic stop.
Perez was hospitalized in serious but stable condition and later placed in federal custody.Local officials said Austin police weren’t involved in the shooting, which is being investigated by federal authorities with assistance from the FBI.About four hours after the shooting, local socialist and communist activists were already at the...