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Posted on 07/11/2026 4:02:46 PM PDT by Red Badger
Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) jumped to attack ICE after a federal immigration officer shot and killed a Mexican national in Houston who authorities say rammed an ICE vehicle and tried to run over an officer. The Texas Democrat demanded that ICE be “held accountable” and called for a full investigation after the shooting. Her response immediately drew pushback from critics who pointed to the Department of Homeland Security’s claim that the man had used his vehicle as a weapon.
The shooting happened Tuesday morning during a targeted immigration enforcement operation in Houston, Texas. The man who died was identified as 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national who had lived in the United States for decades without legal status. Federal officials said officers were attempting to stop him when the confrontation turned deadly.
According to DHS, Salgado Araujo attempted to evade arrest during the operation. The agency said he rammed an ICE law enforcement vehicle, ignored multiple verbal commands, and then “weaponized his vehicle” in an attempt to run over an ICE officer. DHS said the officer fired in self-defense, striking Salgado Araujo, who was later taken to a hospital and died from his injuries.
DHS said in its statement on X that the incident happened at approximately 6:50 a.m. CT on July 7th. The agency described Salgado Araujo as “an illegal alien from Mexico” and said the shooting came after he “rammed an ICE law enforcement vehicle” and refused to comply with commands. DHS said the FBI would investigate the potential assault on a law enforcement officer while DHS would investigate the officer-involved shooting.
Crockett responded the next day by posting about Salgado Araujo and demanding action against ICE. “Lorenzo Salgado Araujo should be here with us today,” Crockett wrote. “No family should have to spend the day after their father was killed demanding answers. ICE must be held accountable. We deserve a full, independent, transparent investigation — now.”
The post included a video of Salgado Araujo’s family speaking after his death. Crockett also wrote that her “heart is with his family, his loved ones, and the entire community.” The message fit Crockett’s broader record of attacking ICE, but critics saw it as another example of a Democrat rushing to blame federal immigration officers before the full facts were known.
Reuters reported that ICE described Salgado Araujo as a Mexican national and “illegal alien” who attempted to evade arrest during a “targeted enforcement operation.” The outlet also reported that Reuters could not independently verify his immigration status or the exact circumstances of the shooting. According to the ICE account cited by Reuters, the officer fired after Salgado Araujo allegedly tried to run over an officer with the vehicle.
Salgado Araujo’s family has disputed the federal account and demanded an independent investigation. CBS News reported that his son, Ronaldo Salgado, said his father had no criminal convictions and had spent decades working in construction. At a news conference, the family described him as a husband, father, and longtime worker who had been trying to secure legal status.
The family’s account and DHS’s account quickly turned the shooting into a political fight. Crockett presented the case as another reason ICE should face accountability. DHS presented it as a case of an illegal alien refusing commands and attacking officers with a vehicle during a lawful enforcement operation. That gap left plenty of room for the same fight that now follows almost every major ICE incident.
Critics on X were quick to push back against Crockett’s framing. The DHS post itself drew widespread circulation from conservatives and immigration hawks, who pointed to the agency’s allegation that Salgado Araujo had rammed a federal vehicle and tried to run over an officer. One conservative account described the case as an illegal immigrant dying after attempting to strike ICE agents with his vehicle and added, “Pray for our ICE.”
Another X account pushed back on a gun-control group that had posted about Salgado Araujo’s death by writing, “Weird how you left that part out,” referring to the claim that he had allegedly tried to strike an ICE agent. The same argument showed up across conservative replies to Crockett and other Democrats: critics said the left was treating the shooting like a police scandal while skipping over the part where DHS says the officer was under attack.
Crockett’s anti-ICE posture is not new. Her campaign website states that ICE has become a “rogue police force” and accuses “masked ICE agents” of killing people in the streets and disappearing neighbors without due process. The page also says Crockett has voted against ICE funding, backed legislation targeting ICE practices, and supported measures meant to restrict the agency’s operations.
That history made her reaction to the Houston shooting less surprising. Crockett has repeatedly cast ICE as an out-of-control federal force, while the Trump administration and its supporters argue that agents are carrying out standard immigration law in dangerous conditions. The FBI and DHS investigations will determine what federal officials say happened in the final moments before the officer fired. Until then, Crockett’s post has already become another flashpoint in the immigration fight.
Watch Crockett get roasted by Brandon Gill here:
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My spidey senses tell me the reporter left out a step between the stop and the confrontation turning deadly. Namely, what was the nature of the confrontation?
Maybe we should buy this filthy communist POS a watermelon patch...
Stupid, jazz hands lady.
“Lorenzo Salgado Araujo should be here with us today,” Crockett wrote.
He is exactly where he put himself, and he is exactly where he should be. In a bag.
One must have at least a grudging admiration for the gaslighting and mind fvckery to create a situation where presumably the descendants of slaves in this country are actively supporting millions of illegal aliens who directly compete for resources - jobs — driving down wages, increasing rent and home prices, cost of food and insurance, etc. If you think about this rationally, African Americans by all rights should be absolutely livid about this “arrangement”. One can’t help but think some sort or payola is involved here. She may not be especially bright, but she ain’t so dumb to actually believe her rhetoric. I’m not buying it.
He should never have been in this Nation to begin with.
Crockett is just upset that one of her voters was killed..that is ALL illegal aliens are to them, voters, they could give a rats behind about these illegals they are their useful idiots who do their bidding as long as they get freebies. If illegals didnt get Govt freebies they would NEVER come here
Hahahahahaha
“...Reuters could not independently verify his immigration status...”
His immigration status is now “Over”.
“HE SPENT DECADES WORKING IN CONSTRUCTION”.
SURE WOULD LIKE DHS TO DEMAND HIS PAY RECORDS-—HIS IRS FILINGS-—& HOW COME IF HE CAME HERE AT ABOUT AGE 23-24 & WAS HERE 35 YEARS HE STILL HAD NOT ATTAINED LEGAL STATUS...
WHOSE SOC SEC NUMBER WAS HE USING????
DID HE HAVE A DRIVER’S LICENSE??
DID HE HAVE VEHICLE INSURANCE?
HE HE GET A LOAN TO BUY THE VEHICLE?
THERE WERE LOTS OF WAYS HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN TRIPPED UP.
WAS HE A REGISTERED VOTER???
MORE PROBLEMS......
Most illegals have no car insurance, they pay cash for everything from under-the-table jobs, where they pay no Federal income taxes, Social Security, Medicare, or state and local taxes. The only taxes they pay are Sales taxes on stuff they pay cash for and road taxes on fuel for their vehicles.
Here they live in groups, five, ten or more to a house, you can tell by the number of trucks in the yard. They share the groceries and utilities and the house is usually owned by their employer. You can see their ‘housekeepers’ in Walmart on Friday night buying several grocery cart loads of groceries for the next week.............
Exactly.
That’s the absolute truth.
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Watch a few YouTube traffic stops. Take off on a cop and your next visit by that officer will be with weapons drawn until the perp is cuffed. If shots are fired, there's a good chance you'll assume room temperature. Happens all the time.
Counting down till this POS is gone.
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