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"The three men who were in the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo when federal
immigration officials shot and killed him in Houston, Texas, this week are
strongly disputing the Trump administration’s narrative of the events and are
being pressured to sign deportation orders, according to their lawyer and
lawmakers.
The three men, who were arrested by immigration officials during the incident,
denied that Salgado, the driver of the vehicle, “weaponized” his vehicle
against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. They also told
their lawyer that there was never an ICE official in front of the van and that
the shots that killed Salgado came from the “sides” of the vehicle.
On early Tuesday morning, while Salgado, his brother and two men were heading
to work in Houston, he was shot and killed during a “targeted enforcement
operation” by ICE officials. It is the latest shooting by federal immigration
officials amid the Trump administration’s aggressive anti-immigrant campaign.
Hugo Balderas-Ibarra, a Texas attorney representing two of the men from the
van, said during a press conference on Friday his clients “reiterated that at
no point was there ever an agent standing in front of the vehicle, nor was an
agent ever placed in the line of danger”. The men’s claims were first reported
by the
Washington Post.
The latest revelation comes as family members, local officials, lawmakers and
civil rights groups desperately attempt to learn more about Salgado’s death.
Further confirmation may be hard to access: the ICE officers involved in the
incident were not wearing body cameras and their cars did not have dash-cams,
the Texas representative Sylvia Garcia said on Friday at the press conference
after speaking with ICE’s acting director, David Venturella.
Democrats have repeatedly called for ICE and other homeland security officials
to wear body cameras when conducting arrest operations, after the shooting
deaths of US citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of immigration
officials in Minneapolis during the Trump administration’s surge there in
January."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
