{"id":379063,"date":"2026-07-19T22:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379063\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T22:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:07:12","slug":"protesters-keep-up-pressure-2-weeks-after-death-of-lorenzo-salgado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379063\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters keep up pressure 2 weeks after death of Lorenzo Salgado"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Protestors<\/p>\n

Protestors gather at Evan Chew Park to protest the killing of Lorenzo Salgadodo Araujo and Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s recent actions in Houston, Sunday, July 19, 2026.<\/p>\n

Jacob Lujan\/Houston Chronicle\"Protestors<\/p>\n

Protestors gather at Evan Chew Park to protest the killing of Lorenzo Salgadodo Araujo and Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s recent actions in Houston, Sunday, July 19, 2026.<\/p>\n

Jacob Lujan\/Houston Chronicle\"Protestors<\/p>\n

Protestors gather at Evan Chew Park to protest the killing of Lorenzo Salgadodo Araujo and Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s recent actions in Houston, Sunday, July 19, 2026.<\/p>\n

Jacob Lujan\/Houston Chronicle<\/p>\n

In 95 degree heat Sunday afternoon, hundreds of people protesting the fatal ICE shooting of\u00a0Lorenzo Salgado Araujo<\/a> spread across Dunlavy Park in Montrose. One protester carried a\u00a0weather-appropriate sign: ICE melts in Texas heat.<\/p>\n

Since U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents fatally shot the Mexican construction worker on his way to work July 7, protesters have marched the streets of the East End, lit candles at vigils and\u00a0paid their respects<\/a> at a public viewing.<\/p>\n

Cailtin McQuay has attended every demonstration since Salgado\u2019s death. McQuay said the turnout Sunday at the park, which was dotted with flags and signs,\u00a0gives her a bit of hope.<\/p>\n

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JOY SEWING: The headlines told how Lorenzo Salgado Araujo died by ICE. His visitation revealed how he lived.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Every time, there have been more people,” McQuay said. “That\u2019s heartening.”<\/p>\n

Salgado was the first Houston victim of an ICE shooting, but others around the country, including that of a 25-year-old Colombian man in Maine<\/a> just days later, continue to spark protests.<\/p>\n

“You need to band together as a community because it’s not going to go away by itself,” said McQuay\u2019s friend, Zach Kelm. “The killings aren’t gonna stop by themselves. The only way that we can hope to make an impact is by showing up in groups, in numbers, as the American people, to show that this is not what we want from our country and our government.”<\/p>\n

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Salgado\u2019s sons, Ronaldo and Lorenzo, thanked attendees for continuing to protest the killing of their father and encouraged them to fight to prevent future ICE shootings.<\/p>\n

“I really, really hoped that my dad would be the last person that this would happen to,” Ronaldo Salgado said. “But you saw what happened less than a week later. Out there in Maine, there is a young 3-year-old child who saw the worst of the worst.”<\/p>\n

The young daughter of the\u00a0Maine victim, Johan Sebasti\u00e1n Guerrero, witnessed the fatal shooting.<\/p>\n

EDITORIAL: Magnolia Park is showing up for Salgado. In November, voters must show up too.<\/a><\/p>\n

Elda Felix Cartwright, 88, and her husband, John, 94 stood under a tree for shade and pinned ICE shootings on lawmakers who voted this summer\u00a0to continue to fund ICE.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“Our rights are being stolen from us,”\u00a0Cartwright\u00a0said. “It\u2019s happening everywhere \u2026 and I still blame Congress.”<\/p>\n

Cartwright, short and softspoken, said she is getting too old to fight. Her granddaughter, Lori Carruthers, 51, disagreed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“These are our neighbors,” said Carruthers, tears welling in her eyes. “It could be my grandma.”<\/p>\n

Carruthers complained about the amount of funding Congress has approved for ICE and what appears to be a severe lack of training for officers.<\/p>\n

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Houston Mayor John\u00a0Whitmire\u2019s recent calls for a thorough investigation into the shooting aren\u2019t giving her much confidence either, she said.<\/p>\n

“(Whitmire) was talking about doing an investigation after everybody made a big stink about it, but I don’t think anything,” she said. “I think it’s\u00a0gonna be one of those things trying to be swept up under the rug.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Protestors gather at Evan Chew Park to protest the killing of Lorenzo Salgadodo Araujo and Immigration and Customs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-379063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379063","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=379063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}