{"id":1087,"date":"2026-07-16T16:09:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:09:35","slug":"trumps-deportation-policing-force-is-killing-people-it-was-foreseeable-in-the-most-tragic-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=1087","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Deportation Policing Force Is Killing People. It Was \u201cForeseeable In the Most Tragic Way.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the span of a week,<\/span> immigration officers shot and killed two people in the streets of American cities. And a third person died on Tuesday in Florida after being struck by a tractor-trailer while running from an encounter with federal agents.<\/p>

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Last week, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, his brother, and two others were driving to work at a construction site in Houston when ICE stopped their van. An agent then reportedly fired into the passenger window, fatally hitting Araujo. He was not, however, the intended target of ICE\u2019s operation.<\/p>\n

Fifty-two-year-old Araujo was a father of three from Mexico and had lived in the United States for 35 years. He was in the process of obtaining lawful status. His son, Ronaldo Salgado,<\/strong> learned about the shooting from a video on social media. Speaking at a press conference the following day, he described his father as a family man who,<\/strong> after a hard day at work,<\/strong> liked to spend the evenings resting on his porch, listening to music,<\/strong> and petting his dog.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe did not deserve to die,\u201d Salgado told reporters. \u201cHe did not deserve to be reduced to a headline of \u2018Mexican Man Shot and Killed by ICE.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

As the Araujo family grieved, another casualty made the headlines. On Monday, July 13, an ICE agent shot and killed 25-year-old Johan Sebasti\u00e1n Dur\u00e1n Guerrero inside a vehicle in Biddeford, Maine. The Colombian-born father of a three-year-old girl worked two jobs as a food delivery driver and a cleaner at a veterinary clinic. Like Araujo, Guerrero apparently wasn\u2019t ICE\u2019s initial target either.<\/p>\n

In both shootings, the agents involved wore no body cameras. The Department of Homeland Security has claimed, without providing evidence, that Araujo had \u201cattempted to evade arrest\u201d and \u201cweaponized\u201d his vehicle against law enforcement. About Guerrero, DHS said he \u201cattempted to flee the scene\u201d and the officer, \u201cfearing for public safety,\u201d fired his weapon.<\/p>\n

Araujo and Guerrero are among some 20 people who have been shot at by immigration agents since September, according to the New York Times<\/em>. And there have been at least 17 shootings of motorists by federal immigration officers during Trump\u2019s second term, the Washington Post <\/em>found.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you see now people losing their lives,\u201d said Naureen Shah, the ACLU\u2019s Director of Government Affairs, Equality Division,<\/strong> \u201cit\u2019s not surprising that it\u2019s happening. It\u2019s totally foreseeable in the most tragic way.\u201d<\/p>\n

A new ACLU report co-authored by Shah documents howthese deadly ICE shootings were not only predictable; they fit into a broader pattern of reckless misconduct by the Trump administration\u2019s immigration enforcement machine. Entitled \u201cAgents of Chaos and Cruelty,\u201d the reportanalyzes the ways in which this national deportation policing force has inflicted harm in communities around the United States.<\/p>\n

The killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis, the report\u2019s authors note, \u201cwere not the excesses of a few rogue officers.\u201d They were \u201cpart of a pattern of civil rights violations arising from immigration enforcement\u2014at a scale and severity without precedent in our nation\u2019s history.\u201d <\/p>\n

After reviewing more than 1,200 immigration enforcement-related incidents across eight US states between January and December 2025, the ACLU found for instance:<\/p>\n