‘New terrifying levels’: 10 people fatally shot by immigration officials in Trump’s second term

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by ICE agents on Tursday morning. His family have called for a full investigation into his death. Photograph: Ronaldo Salgado/Reuters View image in fullscreen Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by ICE agents on Tursday morning. His family have called for a full investigation into his death. Photograph: Ronaldo Salgado/Reuters ‘New terrifying levels’: 10 people fatally shot by immigration officials in Trump’s second term As Trump’s immigration crackdown continues, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s death marks another high-profile killing by ICE officers Early on Tuesday morning, 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo took his coffee and a meal his wife had prepared for him, said goodbye to his dog, and left the house he built. He drove his white van, picked up three co-workers, and headed towards a construction site to work on some houses. But Salgado never made it to work. During a “targeted enforcement operation”, officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot and killed Salgado and arrested the three other men. Salgado’s death marks the 10th fatal shooting by federal immigration officials nationwide since the second Trump administration took office, a review of public reports by the Guardian shows, as the Trump administration continues with its anti-immigrant crackdown. ICE officers and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have been responsible for the fatal shootings. Not all of the shooting deaths took place during immigration enforcement operations. In one case, CBP agents shot and killed a man who fired on a border patrol station in Texas. And in another, an off-duty ICE officer shot and killed a man in California. Details of Salgado’s shooting remain murky, with the Department of Homeland Security alleging that Salgado “weaponized” his vehicle when ICE officers tried to stop and arrest the four men. Salgado’s family, public officials and civil rights groups have called for an independent investigation into the shooting, saying that the DHS claims are unreliable. “He did not deserve to die,” Ronaldo Salgado, the son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, said at a press conference on Wednesday. View image in fullscreen Ronaldo Salgado, the son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, on Wednesday. Photograph: David J Phillip/AP The homeland security department has been grappling with its agencies’ involvement in high-profile deaths in the past year. Last month, Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights released a report calculating that in the first 500 days of Trump’s second administration, 52 people died in ICE custody. The United Nations high commissioner for human rights has raised alarm about the increasing number of deaths in US government immigration custody. Now critics are saying that the administration’s aggressive efforts to engage in its “mass deportation” campaign are heightening the likelihood of violence and death. “The deaths of people in immigration prisons has reached new terrifying levels – 21 peopl