Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Texas Governor Greg Abbott, seeking to compel the extradition of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent charged with wounding a man and then fabricating justification for the shooting during a sweeping immigration enforcement campaign in Minneapolis.

The agent, Christian Castro, 52, was arrested in Texas in May on Minnesota charges of second-degree assault and falsely reporting a crime. He is accused of firing a gun through the front door of a Minneapolis home on January 14, striking Venezuelan resident Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg — a bullet that also lodged in a child's bedroom wall. Prosecutors say Castro subsequently gave false testimony claiming that Sosa-Celis and a housemate, Alfredo Aljorna, had attacked ICE officers with a broom and a snow shovel. Video evidence later contradicted that account, federal charges against Sosa-Celis and Aljorna were dropped, and ICE's then-acting director acknowledged that two agents appeared to have made untruthful sworn statements. Both were placed on administrative leave.

Ellison filed the suit in US District Court in southern Texas, citing a 1987 Supreme Court ruling that compliance with the Constitution's extradition clause is mandatory and affords no discretion to a state governor. He argued that Abbott has refused for nearly three months to sign Castro's extradition warrant, despite a formal request from Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. The lawsuit also asks the court to bar Cameron County Sheriff Manuel Trevino from releasing Castro from jail. Under Texas law, Castro could be freed as early as next week — 90 days after his detention — if the extradition warrant is not signed. Ellison expressed concern that Castro, who is being held in a border town and has been making calls from jail to a woman in Mexico discussing marriage and buying a house there, represents a flight risk. Abbott's office declined to comment on