Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico cannot allow mistreatment of its nationals after the Houston ICE shooting
Claudia SheinbaumPresident of Mexico
President Claudia Sheinbaum said at her morning news conference that Mexico cannot allow the mistreatment of its compatriots, that the measures taken so far had not produced the results Mexico wants, and that there had been another regrettable death of a Mexican national in the United States.
“We cannot allow the mistreatment of our brothers, of our fellow Mexicans. The measures taken so far have not had the results we are seeking. They respond to us, but even so there is another regrettable death of a fellow Mexican in the United States (Translated from Spanish. Original: No podemos permitir el maltrato a nuestros hermanos, a los connacionales. Las medidas tomadas hasta el momento no han tenido los resultados que buscamos. Nos contestan, pero de todas maneras hay otra lamentable muerte de un connacional en Estados Unidos)”
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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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Spanish-language report from the Mexico City newspaper El Universal on the president's July 8 morning news conference. Quotations in it are her original Spanish words.
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Report on the president's July 8 morning news conference, from Houston station KTRK-TV (ABC13) as published on the ABC7 website and dated July 8, 2026. It gives an English rendering of her remarks and the ICE account of the shooting.
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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a Mexican national who died during an ICE operation in Houston. Sheinbaum addressed his death at her regular morning news conference the day after it.
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She said her government was preparing legal measures in several venues, with the foreign ministry to present its strategy in the coming days, because the aim was to go beyond diplomatic notes and the steps already raised before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
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The case asks whether ICE was justified in fatally shooting Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Sheinbaum said Mexico cannot allow the mistreatment of its nationals in the United States and called his death another regrettable death of a compatriot, after earlier measures had not brought the results Mexico wanted. In the same news conference, El Universal reported, she also said people held only for lacking immigration papers have no reason to be in detention centers or to face violence. That criticizes the treatment that led to his death rather than defending it, so we labeled it Condemned.
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