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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Jul 12, 2026, 02:32 PM 12 hrs ago

Mexican-born builder fatally shot by an ICE officer in Texas is mourned at vigil

The builder got up every morning long before dawn, left home to pick up his construction crew and then headed out to work on yet another house somewhere across the sprawl of Houston.

Fourteen hours later, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo would return to the wife he’d met as a teenager in Mexico and the modest house he’d built for his family on the city’s east side.

It’s what he’d done for decades, according to Ronaldo Salgado, his oldest son. He said his father built hundreds of houses over 35 years, creating a life for his family and watching as his three sons headed off to college.

On Tuesday, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Salgado Araujo, 52, after he was pursued by federal agents driving unmarked vehicles while he was taking his crew to their latest job site. The shooting has outraged Houston leaders and renewed public scrutiny over ICE and Trump’s immigration crackdown.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mexican-born-builder-fatally-shot-by-an-ice-officer-in-texas-is-mourned-at-vigil/ar-AA27Ihjj

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