A man named Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Houston, Texas

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Sun, Jul 12 2026 at 3:08 PM

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• The three other men in the van — who were separated immediately after the shooting — have each independently stated that Mr. Salgado Araujo did not use his vehicle as a weapon, that he did not attempt to run over the agents, and that no agent had been positioned in front of the vehicle.

• Notably, the ICE agents were not wearing body cameras, and federal authorities have released precisely zero video footage related to the shooting.

Federal agents carrying out the Trump regime’s stupid and racist campaign of terror against immigrants have shot at least 21 people (that we know of) since Trump returned to power. Five of those people have died as a result of being shot by Trump’s “immigration enforcement” thugs: Ruben Ray Martinez (Texas, March 2025); Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez (Illinois, September 2025); Renee Good (Minnesota, January 2026); Alex Pretti (Minnesota, January 2026); Lorenzo Salgado Araujo (Texas, July 2026).

We simply cannot trust ICE, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), or the FBI to adequately investigate this killing. In fact, in this case and others, federal authorities are actually impeding investigations by state and local law enforcement.