reported<\/a> that the targets of the ICE operation were two people from Guatemala, who were not in the van, and Salgado Araujo was a migrant from Mexico who lived in the U.S. for 35 years without authorization.<\/p>\nGarcia said she has received a commitment from the acting ICE director that all agents in the field will be wearing a body camera by the end of the month. <\/p>\n
What Has DHS And ICE Said About The Shooting?<\/p>\n
In a statement shared with various outlets, an ICE spokesperson said the traffic stop was carried out as part of a \u201ctargeted enforcement\u201d operation. The statement alleged that Salgado Araujo \u201cweaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer, resulting in our officer firing his weapon in self-defense.\u201d In a press conference on Wednesday, Araujo\u2019s sons said they believed the father tried to get away from the stop because he was being chased by unmarked vehicles. <\/p>\n
What Do We Know About The Passengers?<\/p>\n
The Times report identified the three other passengers in the van as Salgado Araujo\u2019s brother Victor Hugo Salgado Araujo, Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego, and Daniel Tirado Pantoja. According to the Texas Tribune, all three are currently being held in the Montgomery ICE Processing Center in Conroe, Texas.<\/p>\n
Tangent<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the Mexican government said it plans to request criminal charges over the deaths of 17 Mexicans either in ICE custody or during enforcement operations. Mexico\u2019s President Claudia Sheinbaum said her government has decided to escalate the matter beyond traditional diplomatic channels after Salgado Araujo\u2019s death, which she described as \u201cnot only sad and regrettable, but also appears to have been targeted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline A man who was shot and killed in Texas earlier this week by federal immigration agents during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51435,129319,130383,130384,27,29,130382,28],"class_list":["post-368019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-ice-shooting","tag-lorenzo-salgado-araujo","tag-mexican-immigrant-shot","tag-slyvia-garcia","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-ice-shooting","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}