Demonstrators march through downtown Houston toward the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center during a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation on Saturday, July 11, 2026.
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From left, Dora Alvarado, 63, stands next to her daughter Paris Neri, 21, participate in a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation in Houston on Saturday, July 11, 2026. Demonstrators marched in support of immigrant communities and called for accountability.
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Sophia Reyna, 16, holds a sign during a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation in Houston on Saturday, July 11, 2026.
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Janie Torres, the sister of José “Joe” Campos Torres, speaks during a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation in Houston on Saturday, July 11, 2026.
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Demonstrators march through downtown Houston toward the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center during a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation on Saturday, July 11, 2026.
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People gather for a protest in memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo at City Hall in Houston, Saturday, July 11, 2026.
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David Martinez, 32, holds a flag during a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation at City Hall in Houston on Saturday, July 11, 2026.
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Teodoro Aguiluz, 75, of CRECEN, participates in a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation in Houston on Saturday, July 11, 2026.
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People gather for a protest in memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo at City Hall in Houston, Saturday, July 11, 2026.
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People gather for a protest in memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo at City Hall in Houston, Saturday, July 11, 2026.
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State Rep. Christina Morales speaks during a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation in Houston on Saturday, July 11, 2026. Demonstrators marched in support of immigrant communities and called for accountability.
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Cesar Espinosa, left, executive director of FIEL Houston, stands next to Janie Torres, the sister of José “Joe” Campos Torres, during a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation in Houston on Saturday, July 11, 2026.
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Angie P., 43, a community organizer with Stand Up Houston, speaks a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation in Houston on Saturday, July 11, 2026.
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Demonstrators hold up the lights from their cell phones toward the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Houston during a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation on Saturday, July 11, 2026, in a show of support for people detained inside.
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Cesar Espinosa, executive director of FIEL Houston, marches alongside his son during a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation in Houston on Saturday, July 11, 2026. Demonstrators marched through downtown Houston to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.
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Norma Mottu, 48, carries a flag during a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation in Houston on Saturday, July 11, 2026.
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People gather for a protest in memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo at City Hall in Houston, Saturday, July 11, 2026.
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People gather for a protest in memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo at City Hall in Houston, Saturday, July 11, 2026.
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Demonstrators march through downtown Houston toward the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center during a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation on Saturday, July 11, 2026.
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Demonstrators march through downtown Houston toward the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center during a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation on Saturday, July 11, 2026.
Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle
Demonstrators hold up the lights from their cell phones toward the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Houston during a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation on Saturday, July 11, 2026, in a show of support for people detained inside.
Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle
Demonstrators march through downtown Houston toward the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center during a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation on Saturday, July 11, 2026.
Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle
Demonstrators march through downtown Houston toward the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center during a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation on Saturday, July 11, 2026.
Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle
Sophia Reyna, 16, holds a sign during a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation in Houston on Saturday, July 11, 2026.
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Demonstrators march through downtown Houston toward the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center during a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation on Saturday, July 11, 2026.
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Demonstrators hold signs outside the entrance to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center during a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation in Houston on Saturday, July 11, 2026. The march concluded at the detention center, where protesters gathered in support of those detained inside.
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Demonstrators hold up the lights from their cell phones toward the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Houston during a protest following the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a federal immigration enforcement operation on Saturday, July 11, 2026, in a show of support for people detained inside.
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Protesters trickled in and gathered outside City Hall during a light drizzle Saturday evening to protest the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s by ICE agents this week.
They carried umbrellas, along with their homemade posters and flags representing both Mexico and the U.S.
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Seventy-five-year old Anita Ceballos showed up two and a half hours before the 6 p.m. event.
“A little rain doesn’t hurt, you know?” Ceballos said.
Ceballos’s parents lived not too far from Canal Street in the East End neighborhood where Salgado was killed and she said she’s really hurting for his family.
As Spanish music began playing from speakers in front of City Hall, protesters began to move out from under the trees where they’d taken shelter.
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They were there to demand justice for the 52-year-old Salgado who was shot and killed Tuesday as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents attempted to pull over his vehicle. ICE officials say Salgado attempted to weaponize his vehicle against the agents, an accusation his family rejects.
The Houston branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and immigrants rights group FIEL Houston have called for an independent investigation and to get ICE out of the city.
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Salgado, who had lived in the United States for nearly 35 years, was a Mexican citizen and owned his own construction business, according to his family. He was picking up workers and on his way to a job site when he was stopped by ICE agents Tuesday morning.
As protesters chanted, “Justice for Lorenzo! ICE out of Houston! ICE out of Texas! ICE out of everywhere,” Loren Haskins stood among them in a cowboy hat, holding a Trump 2020 flag with the words crossed out in red.
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“Yet another person was slaughtered by our government,” Haskins said. “We have Donald Trump and his own personal Schutzstaffel and, I mean, it’s 1936 Germany over here, and it’s gotta stop. Unless we collectively rise and decide that enough is enough, they’re gonna keep on killing people.”
At the front of the crowd through a microphone, a leader of the Party for Socialism and Liberation urged the crowd to chant loud enough for the East End to hear them.
U.S. Rep Sylvia Garcia was at the front of the crowd standing under an umbrella, just a few hours after she visited the men who witnessed the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in an immigrant detention facility in Conroe.
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After more than 30 minutes of the crowd chanting, Teodoro Aguiluz of community service group CRECEN Houston took the microphone.
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“We are here to demand that they investigate what happened exactly with our brother Lorenzo,” Aguiluz said in Spanish to the crowd.
Leaders urged the crowd to return to City Hall on Tuesday and sign up for the public comment portion of the scheduled City Council meeting.
“Who is going to be here on Tuesday?” A leader yelled into the microphone to loud applause and shouts.
State Rep. Christina Morales, a Houston Democrat, told the crowd that they honor Salgado by not being silent.
“If the government story is true, then why are they hiding the evidence?” Morales asked.
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Cesar Espinosa, co-founder of FIEL closed the event as he led the group in a moment of silence before playing the song “Amor Eterno” by the late Spanish singer Rocío Dúrcal.
Some of the protesters sobbed as Dúrcal sang in Spanish, “I’d so much rather be asleep than awake / Because of how much it hurts me that you’re not here.”
After the song finished, Espinosa led the group in a march to the Federal Detention Center on Texas Avenue.
As they approached, protesters chanted “F— ICE” in English and Spanish. Once gathered at the center, marchers raised their phone flashlights and pointed them at the building while chanting “You are not alone!” in both languages.
After a few more chants they began to walk back to City Hall, yelling “We’ll be back!”