‘New terrifying levels’: 10 people fatally shot by immigration officials in Trump’s second term
source: The Guardian
published: 9 July 2026
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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.
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