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Houston shooting and policy shift
In Houston, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old man, died after being shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent as ICE tried to stop the van he was driving after he picked up fellow construction workers to start their shift.
“Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old man who had just been shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent”
The Texas Tribune said the ambulance Buddy the dog howled at was heading toward 6812 Canal St., barely two minutes from Clara’s home, to aid Salgado Araujo, who died in a nearby hospital.
The Texas Tribune also said it was the first of two fatal ICE shootings within a week, after an agent killed a 26-year-old immigrant from Colombia in Maine during a traffic stop.
On Tuesday, the Trump administration ordered ICE to suspend most vehicle stops, according to multiple media reports cited by The Texas Tribune, and Rolling Stone described it as a Tuesday order to cease most vehicle stops during ICE operations.
Rolling Stone added that ICE claimed in a statement to some members of Congress that Guerrero “weaponized his vehicle toward law enforcement,” while DHS said the vehicle “attempted to flee the scene.”
Calls for independent review
The Texan reported that one week after an ICE agent fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, few new details had been made public and there were increasing calls for an independent investigation.
The Texan said acting ICE Director David Venturella stated that Salgado Araujo attempted to evade arrest and that the agency had received information indicating Araujo, allegedly the driver of a white van, “weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer.”
In Houston, The Texas Tribune quoted community organizer Jessica Campos saying, “This changes nothing. The raids will continue,” and she added that “Families will still be terrorized in their homes.”
The Texas Tribune also said ICE and the Department of Homeland Security “haven’t released much information about Salgado Araujo’s shooting beyond an initial statement” and that a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson later told The New York Times that Salgado Araujo wasn’t the target.
The Texas Tribune said the Harris County District Attorney’s office launched an investigation into Salgado Araujo’s shooting after citizens and elected officials demanded an independent investigation.
Broader deadly pattern and stakes
El Mundo said Salgado Araujo had lived and worked in the United States for 35 years and was waiting for a work permit when, on July 7, unidentified agents in two unmarked vehicles shot him as he was driving to work.
“requesting a minimum of 2,000 arrests per day”
El Mundo reported that on Monday a 26-year-old Colombian named Joan Sebastián Guerrero was shot dead by ICE agents in Biddeford, and it said Guerrero had a work permit and a Social Security number.
El Mundo also described a Tuesday death in St. Augustine, Florida, after a 28-year-old man died after being run over by a truck while fleeing immigration agents, and it said three deaths in a week followed an order from President Donald Trump requesting a minimum of 2,000 arrests per day.
El Mundo further said ICE announced the death of a 45-year-old Venezuelan man, Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva, in ICE custody on July 13 while being transferred from the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla to the Folkston D. Ray ICE Processing Center in Folkston.
In the same El Mundo account, Jorge Mario Cabrera of CHIRLA said the decision to suspend arrests at traffic stops reflected public pressure affecting the Trump administration, and he described arrests continuing while “the agents leave before the public arrives to protest.”
