{"id":399482,"date":"2026-07-15T15:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399482\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:52:14","slug":"mexico-calls-on-us-states-to-investigate-migrant-deaths-in-ice-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399482\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico calls on US states to investigate migrant deaths in ICE custody"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"People<\/a>Immigration agents arrest people checking in with the agency at its San Diego offices on Oct. 21, 2025. (File photo by Adrian Childress\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n

Mexico<\/a>\u00a0formally requested that U.S. state attorneys general criminally investigate\u00a0cases of migrants who have died<\/a>\u00a0in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody or during raids, the Mexican government said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The request follows the July 7\u00a0death of Mexican immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo<\/a>, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston. Since the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s second term, 17 Mexican migrants have died during immigration enforcement,\u00a014 in ICE custody<\/a>\u00a0and three in agency operations.<\/p>\n

Mexico\u2019s Foreign Ministry had\u00a0previously said it would make the request<\/a>, which was formalized on Tuesday, according to the ministry. It said a similar request will be also sent to the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n

The United States is not legally obliged to act on the requests.<\/p>\n

Also, the Mexican government said it has started sending letters to U.S. detention centers where Mexican migrants have died, demanding they \u201cimmediately cease the actions or omissions that resulted in these deaths, such as preventing access to prompt and expedited medical care, as well as the application of policies incompatible with medical and penitentiary standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first center to receive the letter was\u00a0Adelanto, in California, where four Mexican migrants died<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The letters are a first step toward \u201cthe eventual filing of civil lawsuits\u201d against the companies that operate the detention centers to stop human rights violations, according to the ministry.<\/p>\n

Last week, Mexican Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco said his country would go directly to U.S. authorities to request criminal investigations in cases of Mexicans killed in ICE custody or enforcement operations.<\/p>\n

Salgado Araujo,<\/a>\u00a0who had no criminal record and had lived in the U.S. for 35 years, was shot last Tuesday while driving his construction crew to a job site in Houston. His death sparked protests in Houston and demands for an independent investigation from Democrats and Salgado Araujo\u2019s family.<\/p>\n

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, said 52-year-old Salgado Araujo had rammed an ICE vehicle, and that a federal agent fired a weapon in self-defense.<\/p>\n

Velasco also sent a letter to Volker T\u00fcrk, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, requesting that U.S. authorities gather information on the deaths of the Mexican migrants in ICE custody and analyze the \u201ccompatibility of these events with international human rights obligations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The foreign minister also asked T\u00fcrk to seek the opinion of the Human Rights Council, a U.N. intergovernmental body that promotes human rights worldwide, on the cases and offer recommendations.<\/p>\n

The developments mark an escalation in Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum\u2019s response to Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown. Sheinbaum earlier this year ordered Mexico\u2019s diplomatic missions across the U.S. to regularly check in with ICE detainees, and her government even lodged a complaint with T\u00fcrk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Immigration agents arrest people checking in with the agency at its San Diego offices on Oct. 21, 2025.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2778,36082,348,2457,74,76,75,14764],"class_list":["post-399482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-in-custody-deaths","tag-investigation","tag-mexico","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}