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Ronaldo
Salgado and Lorenzo Jr., sons of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, hold a
photograph of their father during a news conference on July 8 in
Houston. AP
The widespread protests against ongoing Immigrations and Customs
Enforcement detentions have diminished and the media has turned its
fragmented attention elsewhere.
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But the terrorizing and dehumanization of immigrants in the United
States has not quieted, even as the voices speaking out against it
have.
On Tuesday, the cries of one family were heard across the country as they mourned the death of a husband and father at the hands of ICE.
A
makeshift memorial for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was shot and killed
by an ICE officer Tuesday, is shown on July 8 in Houston. AP
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot dead by an ICE agent attempting to
apprehend him in Houston. According to a statement obtained by the Associated Press, the Department of Homeland Security claims that Salgado attempted to ram an officer with his vehicle.
However, government officials have yet to substantiate this claim,
which closely resembles the accusations made against Renee Good. The
Minnesota mother was shot and killed
by an ICE agent in January while observing ICE activity in her
Minneapolis neighborhood. DHS officials falsely claimed that she was
trying to run over the agent who shot her three times as she tried to
drive away.
On Wednesday, Araujo’s family decried his senseless and violent death.
“I saw a video posted on Facebook that he had been shot,” said his
oldest son Ronaldo at a press conference. “I recognized him immediately.
Not from his appearance, but from his voice crying for help as he lay
on the street bleeding out,” he said.
“He did not deserve to die. He did not deserve to be reduced to a
headline of ‘Mexican man shot and killed by ICE,’” Ronaldo added as he
wiped tears from his face. “He deserved to live a quiet life as Lorenzo
Salgado Araujo, a husband, a father, and a job creator for dozens of men
who also wanted the American dream.”
But the heartbreaking stories don’t end with the Salgado family. On Monday, it was confirmed that
an Afghan national who aided U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan for a
decade died in ICE custody due to onsite negligence, just one day after
he was detained on March 13.
Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to
an unidentified substance that triggered anaphylaxis and exacerbated
his asthma, according to a document obtained by AP. He died at a Dallas
hospital.
In ICE custody alone, 52 people have died since President Donald Trump began his second term with an anti-immigration agenda.
Afghan
national Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, who died in the custody of
Immigration and Customs Enforcement on March 14, is pictured in this
undated family photo after resettling in Richardson, Texas. AP
In 2025 and at the start of 2026, protests continued across the nation calling for justice and condemning the way Trump’s mass deportation agenda was being carried out.
While the Trump administration made meme-like videos and parody websites likening immigrants to “illegal aliens” straight out of the “X-Files,” musicians used their voices and celebrities donned “ICE OUT” pins at award shows.
Now, the administration is coming for those who spoke out—including U.S. citizens.
Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah C. Dugan was charged and convicted
for obstructing federal agents attempting to arrest an immigrant at his
court hearing last year. She was spared prison time, but was fined
$5,000 for telling the man to exit via a side door once she learned
agents were waiting outside her courtroom to detain him.
In New York, a man was visited at his home and in the middle of the
night at a hotel where he and his daughter were sleeping because of an
email he sent criticizing former ICE Director Todd Lyons. David
Streever, as we’ve previously reported, is now suing the agency.
The government is also looking to social media for people to target and intimidate. ICE has been trying to obtain the identifying details of Reddit and X users who are critical of their tactics.
Daily Kos previously reported that the administration’s quota had
been increased. And with the boost in funding provided by the Big
Beautiful Bill, they have the budget to keep hiring agents and
descending upon immigrant communities.
But the cold, hard truth is that when the “ICE OUT” pins are removed from haute couture red carpet wear
and social media warriors turn their ire toward Trump’s latest failed
ceasefire and World Cup corruption, the fear emanating from
immigrants—and the scorn radiating from the armed federal agents hunting
them—remains.
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Comment by tegrat.
We
often see three vehicles and six agents being used to kidnap one person
as they exit our jail into the public lobby, and even occasionally
leaving empty handed. And yes, other raids are more people abducted, but
still five or six vehicles and a platoon of agents. I have a hard time
believing the 2000/day number (Miller's aspiration is 3000/day), I
suspect that a good number of those abductions wind up as releases very
quickly as many are US citizens as recently happened in our area (and
the released person had to go to the hospital to have injuries sustained
during the abduction treated). Please consider joining your local RR
team if at all possible (and I get that it can be a real time sink),
there are plenty of roles and many do not involve direct interaction
with agents.
Comment by ericfreedom.
What is the Democratic Party position about this?
Why don't I and every other American know?
Comment by Talmas.
ICE
comes to a new area w/ force and vengeance to inflict maximum pain on
brown people. These fascists couldn’t care if they were American
citizens, brown people are second class to this white nationalist
government. THEN these fascists get the pushback! The community bands
together and chases these fascists OUT! Then they saunter off to
another area in America, Rinse and repeat!
Comment by Wintercat.
ADD Americans unfortunately have the attention span of a fruit fly's lifespan.
"Why,
that's an outrage, we should...uh...HAHAHA look what the Kardashians
did now. Wait what was I saying? Never mind my favorite paid influencer
has a new candle organizing and trust funded urban wandering video."
Like the headphones in Harrison Bergeron, but self-imposed.
Meanwhile, Albanians take to the streets nonstop to protest Javanka taking over their island.edited
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