Luz Rivas condemns the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
Luz Maria RivasU.S. representative for California’s 29th congressional district
Luz Rivas described Salgado Araujo as innocent and expressed outrage that an ICE agent killed him while he was traveling to work.
“I am outraged at yet another innocent person being killed by an ICE agent. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was on his way to work building homes when ICE agents ended his life and shattered his family's home in a matter of seconds.”
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Was ICE justified in fatally shooting Lorenzo Salgado Araujo?
On July 7, 2026, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Houston construction contractor Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during an attempted vehicle stop. ICE said the officer fired in self-defense after Salgado Araujo tried to run over an officer with his van. Passengers said no officer was in the van’s path and that Salgado Araujo had stopped before the shot. A later Justice Department account described possible vehicle movement with an officer beside or partly inside the van but expressly reserved any final conclusion.
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Official congressional statement responding specifically to the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Rivas called him innocent, described the death as senseless and demanded an independent investigation.
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Rivas issued the statement in response to the fatal ICE shooting in Houston.
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She called the death senseless, demanded an independent investigation and said ICE could not be trusted to investigate itself.
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Relative to the fatal use of force, Rivas calls Salgado Araujo innocent and expresses outrage that ICE ended his life. This directly condemns the shooting.
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