Surveillance and witness videos obtained by The New York Times<\/a> show two unmarked ICE vehicles tailing the white van and trying to cut it off. The van does a U-turn before stopping alongside the road, with several immigration agents running toward the vehicle as it comes to a halt. The ICE agents were not wearing body cameras and none of the vehicles had dashboard cameras.<\/p>\nFamily members of Mr. Salgado Araujo\u2019s said they had not been able to recover his belongings, including the lunchbox that contained the food cooked by his wife that they said he had looked forward to eating every day.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day at the vigil, Mr. Salgado, a soccer coach, remembered his father as a hard-working man who was passionate about soccer. He rooted for the Mexican soccer team Las Chivas, a team from Guadalajara, and just days ago he had been cheering Mexico\u2019s national soccer team on its strong run before its exit from the World Cup.<\/p>\n
Mr. Salgado managed to muster a laugh from the crowd when he said with a sad smile that his father used to say, \u201cJugaron como nunca, pero perdieron como siempre,\u201d translated as, \u201cThey played like they\u2019ve never had, but they lose like they always do.\u201d<\/p>\n
His father, Mr. Salgado said, was a private man who would have been shocked to learn that his name had become well-known after immigration activists and a growing chorus of elected officials began demanding an independent inquiry.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing known by this many people was like a nightmare to him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mr. Salgado also compared his father\u2019s death to those of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, who were fatally shot by federal immigration agents in January during an enforcement surge.<\/p>\n
Mr. Salgado Araujo had three U.S.-born sons and was in the process of obtaining a work permit and legal status, his sons said, adding that he had made a career in the framing industry and was proud that he had built his own house.<\/p>\n
Mr. Salgado said he had been thrust into the role of family leader since Mr. Salgado Araujo was killed, something he hoped would have made his father proud.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really hope that, you know, he\u2019s proud of the big brother I\u2019ve become, of the man that I\u2019ve become today, and I will continue to keep fighting for him,\u201d Mr. Salgado said through tears.<\/p>\n
His comments prompted a man in the audience, Alain Cisneros, 48, to reassure him. \u201cWith all my heart, I see you as my son,\u201d he said in Spanish. \u201cYour father is looking at you and he is proud of you. I can tell you that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Salgado\u2019s younger brother, Lorenzo Salgado Jr., evoked the words of one of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson, in remembering his father.<\/p>\n
His father \u201chad his liberty, though he couldn\u2019t travel outside of the country due to, you know, not being able to get back to his life,\u201d he said, referring to his unresolved immigration status. \u201cThe pursuit of happiness, he achieved that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, he added, \u201cit\u2019s a hard moment to be an American.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday morning Ronaldo Salgado glanced, his smile bittersweet, at a photo of his father projected on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[324643,23,41704,32380,324639,48218,3262,253465,26901,290748,324640,3,324642,290746,324641,403,265754,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-758047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-alex-jeffrey-1988-2026","tag-america","tag-araujo","tag-demonstrations","tag-federal-actions-in-us-cities","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-good","tag-houston-tex","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-us","tag-lorenzo-salgado","tag-news","tag-pretti","tag-protests-and-riots","tag-renee-nicole-1988-2026","tag-soccer","tag-surveillance-of-citizens-by-government","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}