{"id":386568,"date":"2026-07-25T21:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386568\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T21:03:10","slug":"groups-gather-in-houston-for-rally-march-calling-for-end-of-ice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386568\/","title":{"rendered":"Groups gather in Houston for rally, march calling for end of ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Groups are gathering in downtown Houston Saturday morning to call for an end to ICE operations in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ICE Out of Texas Marchamos Por Lorenzo will start at 10 a.m. at Rememberance Park. A rally is set to take place there before the group marches to Houston City Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The group&#8217;s actions are meant to bring awareness to the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo who was shot and killed by an ICE officer on the morning of July 7 in Houston&#8217;s East End.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Advocacy groups, faith leaders and elected officials will gather in downtown Houston Saturday morning to call for the end of Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ICE Out of Texas Marchamos Por Lorenzo will start at 10 a.m. at Rememberance Park. A rally is set to take place there before the group marches to Houston City Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The group&#8217;s actions are meant to bring awareness to the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo who was shot and killed by an ICE officer on the morning of July 7 in Houston&#8217;s East End.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The backstory<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:His family says;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/houston-ice-shooting-death-lorenzo-salgado-araujo-press-conference\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">His family says<\/a> the father of three had been in the U.S. for nearly 35 years, was in the process of obtaining a work permit, and was close to obtaining his legal status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the time of the shooting, his family says he was picking up workers on his way to a construction job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A <a data-ylk=\"slk:federal prosecutor has said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/houston-ice-shooting-details-us-attorney\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">federal prosecutor has said<\/a> that ICE officers that morning were targeting two Guatemalan men who were potentially subject to deportation and driving a van similar to Salgado Araujo&#8217;s vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ICE officers claim they were trying to conduct a stop on Salgado Araujo&#8217;s work van when he rammed their vehicle, refused to follow verbal commands and tried to run over an officer. The agency says the ICE officer shot Salgado Araujo in self-defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Three other men were in the van at the time of the shooting. The Associated Press reports that the passengers, according to their attorneys, have disputed DHS&#8217;s account of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information in this article comes from Texas AFL-CIO and previous FOX 26 coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Groups are gathering in downtown Houston Saturday morning to call for an end to ICE operations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4904,56,4994,58,57,51627,3647,129319,130290,136287],"class_list":["post-386568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-downtown-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-city-hall","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-ice-officer","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-lorenzo-salgado-araujo","tag-salgado-araujo","tag-texas-marchamos-por-lorenzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386568","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=386568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}