Andy:
Ronaldo Salgado didn’t learn of his father’s death from ICE or any government official. He recognized his father’s screams for help on a social media post.1
"He did not deserve to die. He did not deserve to be reduced to a headline of Mexican man shot and killed by ICE. He deserved to live a quiet life as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a husband, a father and a job creator for dozens of men who also wanted the American dream," Ronaldo said.
Days later, this past Monday, an ICE agent fatally shot Johan Sebastián Guerrero, a 26-year-old man who moved to Maine to give his 3-year-old daughter a better life. His daughter, dressed in Bluey pajamas, was there when her dad was shot. He bled out, handcuffed, on the pavement.
Then on Tuesday, a 28-year-old man from Mexico was killed by a tractor trailer after fleeing for his life as he was being targeted by ICE. Another life lost. Another community grieving. We don’t even know his name yet.
Details of these most recent deaths are still emerging — and we demand independent and transparent investigations — but this is painfully clear: People are continuing to die as a direct result of the quarter of a trillion dollars that Congress has handed ICE and CBP to inflict cruelty and chaos and fuel the racist crackdown on immigrants. And it must stop. NOW.
