Blue Alert, ICE and Texas
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Phones buzzed across Texas just before 8 p.m. Wednesday with a high-priority emergency alert. But it wasn't about flooding, a storm, or a missing child. It was about a five-day-old shooting at an ICE detention center hundreds of miles away.
You may have received the emergency alert about an FBI wanted suspect. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a Blue Alert for Benjamin Hanil Song. Song is wanted for his alleged involvement in the July 4 attack on Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado,