{"id":375274,"date":"2026-07-16T09:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375274\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T09:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:53:09","slug":"u-s-house-democrats-demand-ice-turn-over-footage-of-houston-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375274\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. House Democrats demand ICE turn over footage of Houston shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter this week to acting ICE director David Venturella, the three Texas members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus questioned ICE&#8217;s claims\u00a0that Salgado, a\u00a0Mexican national who&#8217;d been living in Houston for 35 years, was trying to ram ICE agents with his van.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr.\u00a0Salgado Araujo\u2019s family and the public deserve nothing less than a complete investigation of his killing and the aftermath, including an accounting of wrongdoing by federal officials,&#8221; they wrote, adding, &#8220;the pattern of lies to cover up DHS misconduct is well documented.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The letter follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/immigration\/article\/ice-shooting-witnesses-22341176.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">efforts by\u00a0Democratic U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia<\/a> to bring attention to the\u00a0shooting, including visiting an ICE detention center to meet with three migrant workers who had been in the van with Salgado at the time of shooting.<\/p>\n<p>In their letter, Casar, Crockett and Menefee\u00a0asked ICE to release to the public\u00a0body or dash cam footage from &#8220;any federal and state\u00a0officers present at the scene&#8221; as well as recording of &#8220;radio, text, or phone communication between officers immediately\u00a0before and after the shooting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They also asked ICE to preserve witness statements and forensic evidence and share it with the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s Office of Inspector General, including communications among top ICE officials about\u00a0the shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a letter this week to acting ICE director David Venturella, the three Texas members of the Congressional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[933,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-375274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-austinlatest","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375274","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=375274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}