A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national who lived in the U.S. for decades, as the homebuilder drove his construction crew to a Houston job site.
His death set off protests in Texas’ largest city and calls from Democrats and Salgado Araujo ‘s family for an independent investigation. The shooting on Tuesday in a heavily Hispanic neighborhood is at least the eighth death during the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign.
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, has said federal officers were conducting a targeted operation to arrest a person in the country without legal status when it attempted to stop a vehicle driven by Salgado Araujo. In a statement, DHS said Salgado Araujo rammed an ICE vehicle and that a federal officer fired a weapon in self-defense.
The track record of ICE has been that their stories about what happened in previous incidents have fallen apart under further examination. Not to mention they have a well-documented history of stepping in front of vehicles and using that as a rationale to kill people.
You might remember that the case against the Broadview Six fell apart because of fuckery by the prosecutors and ICE agents. It was so bad that, when the Six sued for malicious prosecution and demanded that the government pay all of their attorney's fees,
ICE is a lawless paramilitary group. Those miscreants need to be prosecuted and their agency defunded and recreated with people who understand that their first duty is to the Constitution and the law.
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