US judge declines Minnesota’s effort to force Texas to extradite ICE agent - Al Jazeera

Castro has been held in a Texas county jail since May. Minnesota charged him in connection with the shooting, which occurred during an immigration enforcement operation in the state, and officials there have been pushing to bring him back to face those charges. The judge's decision blocks that effort, at least for now.

The ruling puts Texas squarely in the middle of a standoff between two states over how far federal immigration enforcement agents can be held accountable under state criminal law. For people in Lubbock and across Texas, that question is not abstract. ICE operations run through this region, and courts are actively drawing the legal boundary between federal authority and state prosecution in real time.

What this means practically is that Castro stays in Texas and Minnesota's case against him stalls. State prosecutors there charged a sitting federal agent with crimes committed on duty, which is rare. Courts have not settled how far that power extends when the federal government is involved.

The case marks one of the first times a state has tried to criminally prosecute a federal immigration agent for conduct during an official raid.