ICE is threatening to deport witnesses of its latest shooting
Advocates are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security release bodycam footage of the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant who was killed by ICE officers in Houston during a traffic stop earlier this week. But DHS claims the agents involved in the shooting weren’t wearing body cameras because of the lengthy government shutdown that prevented ICE and Customs and Border Protection from receiving additional federal funding for 76 days — a shutdown that was itself spurred by congressional bickering over reforms to DHS after federal agents killed two civilians earlier this year.
Two competing narratives have emerged in the absence of any footage of the shooting, which occurred Tuesday around 7AM as Salgado Araujo, who owned a construction business, drove to a work site with three of his employees. But as the killings of Renée Good and Alex Prettidemonstrated, DHS will readily accuse victims of...
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