Chuy García calls the Houston ICE shooting a murder
Jesus "Chuy" GarciaU.S. representative for Illinois’s 4th congressional district
Jesús “Chuy” García called the Houston and Maine shootings murders and accused ICE of lying about the facts surrounding them.
“Federal immigration agents have killed two more people in just one week: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine. In both cases, ICE has lied about the facts that led to these murders.”
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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 statement addressing the killings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine. García called both deaths murders and accused ICE of lying about the facts.
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García opened by saying ICE was out of control and identified the Houston and Maine deaths.
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He called for agents to be held accountable and for the immigration-enforcement system to be rebuilt.
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Why this label?
Relative to the fatal use of force against Salgado Araujo, García expressly calls the death a murder and accuses ICE of misrepresenting the facts. The substantive judgment is condemnation.
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