Texas Faith Leaders Condemn ICE-Related Deaths, Demand End to ‘Terror Campaign’ Against Migrants
Faith leaders called ICE detention and deportation practices a grave moral evil and sought tighter limits on force, identification and oversight.
- On Wednesday, Texas faith leaders gathered at the state Capitol in Austin to condemn recent immigration enforcement-related deaths and demand ICE reforms following the July 7 fatal shooting of 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston.
- Conflicting accounts of the Houston operation persist, with witnesses claiming unmarked vehicles cornered Araujo's van before an agent fired, contradicting ICE assertions that the agent acted in self-defense after Araujo attempted to hit them.
- Religious organizations, including the National Council of Jewish Women and the Southwestern Texas Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, pressed for independent oversight of ICE operations and strict limits on lethal force during immigration enforcement.
- A passenger detained after the shooting is seeking federal release through a judge, while Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Vikki Goodwin attended the event to endorse the leaders' call for increased agent accountability.
- St. James' Episcopal Church attorney Jim Harrington urged federal agents to "resign and find other work" if they determine their orders are immoral, as leaders described the current enforcement climate as a "terror campaign.
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Faith Leaders Condemn ICE Violence In Texas
On Wednesday, July 22, several faith and community leaders from around Texas gathered at the Texas Capitol to condemn the recent actions of ICE, and called for Texas lawmakers to take specific actions against the federal agency.The gathering of religious leaders occurred less than three weeks after the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston. Salgado Araujo was killed early July 7 in Magnolia Park after a vehicle he was driving was stopped by…
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