{"id":375642,"date":"2026-07-16T16:39:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375642\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:39:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:39:30","slug":"dallas-anti-ice-protesters-reeling-after-fatal-houston-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375642\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas anti-ICE protesters reeling after fatal Houston shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHOUSTON, TEXAS – JULY 08: People pay their respects during a candlelight vigil aat the site where Mexican immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed on July 08, 2026 in Houston, Texas. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Mexican immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during an attempted traffic stop arrest on Tuesday. The shooting marks the first fatal use of force by federal immigration officers since the deaths of Ren\u00e9e Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis earlier this year. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Dallas organizers who have spent the last 18 months rallying against federal immigration enforcement crackdowns<\/a> are mourning. They\u2019re also confused, rocked by the whiplash of ICE officials saying one thing, only for the president to charge back with another.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It has been just over a week since Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was fatally shot by ICE agents in Houston, a flash of violence that hits close to home both geographically and emotionally. Salgado Araujo was stopped by federal agents while driving to a construction job.<\/a> A father of three who had been in the U.S. for decades, he was not the target of the agents\u2019 investigation, but was killed after authorities claim he \u201cweaponized his vehicle\u201d against the officers. That claim has not been backed up by video evidence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The slaying has left Texans, particularly those who belong to communities targeted by ICE, \u201cshocked\u201d by the feeling that \u201csomebody who is a member of the community for so long can be taken in what seems to have been a pointless moment of violence,\u201d said Eric Folkerth, an Oak Cliff pastor and leader with the Clergy League for Emergency Action and Response (CLEAR).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Folkerth spoke at a vigil for Salgado Araujo last week<\/a> and has led weekly prayer vigils outside of the Dallas ICE field office since immigration crackdowns began at the start of President Donald Trump\u2019s second term.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat I heard [at the vigil], particularly from our Latino community, is a real identification with him. A feeling that he could be, for many of them, my father; he could be my t\u00edo,\u201d said Folkerth. \u201cThe neighborhood in Houston where he lived is very similar to neighborhoods in the Dallas-Fort Worth area where we are. We all know our own hardworking Latino Lorenzos.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Less than a week after Salgado Araujo was killed, another man, 26-year-old Joan Sebasti\u00e1n Dur\u00e1n Guerrero, was gunned down by immigration agents in Maine in an event so similar in the details that it is uncanny. Guerrero, too, was not the target of the investigation that killed him; he too was accused of becoming unsafe while in his vehicle, although officers were not wearing body cameras to prove that protocols were followed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Folkerth doesn\u2019t expect to ever get an apology from the Department of Homeland Security, or ICE, for that matter. But what came in the days following those two shootings was some recognition that something had gone wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The agency committed to ceasing non-urgent vehicle stops and pledged to put officers in body cameras \u2014 a promise originally made after the shooting of U.S. citizen Alex Pretti in Minneapolis in January.<\/a> The policy change was a \u201ctacit admission\u201d that \u201dthey\u2019ve crossed the line,\u201d Folkerth said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But it didn\u2019t last long. On Wednesday, Trump demanded that officers<\/a> continue stopping vehicles as part of an effort to detain record numbers of individuals living in the country illegally.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.\u2019s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!\u201d Trump wrote on social media. \u201cOnce we do, we are playing right into the criminal\u2019s hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just after Trump\u2019s declaration, Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, posted to social media that he and the president were \u201con the same page\u201d about ICE\u2019s mission.\u00a0It is unclear whether immigration officers will continue to make traffic stops, which are one of the primary ways they apprehend wanted individuals, or whether new safeguards have been put into place to ensure the shootings do not continue.<\/p>\n

North Texas has led the nation in ICE arrests for years, federal data shows. Advocates say the Trump Administration\u2019s ever-shifting policy on law enforcement strategies is intentional \u2014 meant to confuse and exhaust. Faisal Al-Juburi with the immigration advocacy organization RAICES told CBS News that <\/a>the changing messaging ultimately instills a \u201cculture of fear,\u201d which he believes is \u201cthe intention.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s Folkerth\u2019s assessment, too, and he worries that a seemingly endless stream of fear will ultimately result in fatigue throughout the community he aims to organize.\u00a0That, to him, is all the more reason to carry on with protests against the federal immigration policies he believes are harming his community. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey are trying to create an unstable, deeply destabilized situation, through which people are tired, exhausted and check out or just acquiesce,\u201d said Folkerth. \u201cMy father, there\u2019s a lot of advice he gave me that I never took. One of the pieces of advice he gave was don\u2019t give a bully what they want. If a bully wants you to be tired, don\u2019t be tired. And if a bully wants you to be exhausted, find a way to renew.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, TEXAS – JULY 08: People pay their respects during a candlelight vigil aat the site where Mexican…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,1724],"class_list":["post-375642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375642","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=375642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}