Mexico to File Legal Complaints over 17 Deaths Involving ICE
The government will also seek civil lawsuits against ICE contractors as it pursues accountability for deaths in detention centers and operations.
- On Monday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the government will file criminal and civil complaints in the United States over the deaths of 17 Mexican nationals in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody or operations since June 2025.
- Foreign Affairs Minister Roberto Velasco announced last Thursday that legal action targets "whoever is responsible" for deaths of Mexicans under ICE custody, following the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an ICE officer in Houston last week.
- Of the 17 deaths, 14 involved Mexican citizens in private or government-run detention centers, including the Adelanto detention center in California and the Florence Correctional Complex in Arizona. Mexico sent 11 diplomatic notes demanding thorough investigations.
- Calling the death "practically murder," Sheinbaum urged Mexican society and political parties to show solidarity with compatriots abroad, stating "we have to raise our voice when the human rights of our fellow citizens are violated."
- Separately, Sheinbaum distanced her administration from a National Human Rights Commission report asserting the army was not involved in the 2014 disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students, requesting an Interior Ministry review of its findings.
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SRE will file criminal complaints in the U.S. for the death of 17 Mexicans in ICE custody and operations, Sheinbaum reported.
Mexico City, 13 Jul (EFE).- The Government of Mexico will present Monday complaints to the U.S. Department of Justice and state prosecutors for the death of 17 Mexicans in that country at the hands of immigration authorities, said President Claudia Sheinbaum, in a further escalation of the actions undertaken by her administration in the face of alleged violations of the human rights of migrants. "Today the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will presen…
Claudia Sheinbaum announced that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) will report Monday, July 13, to the U.S. Department of Justice and state prosecutors the deaths of 17 Mexicans at the hands of the ICE, including the recent Lorenzo Salgado case in Houston. “Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is going to file complaints with the U.S. Department of Justice and state prosecutors for the death of 17 fellow citizens, including the last one th…
Mexico to seek charges over deaths in ICE custody
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said July 9 that her government plans to seek criminal complaints in the United States over the deaths of Mexican citizens while in immigration custody or during anti-immigration operations. Since President Donald Trump launched the current immigration crackdown, at least 14 Mexican nationals have died in the custody of US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), and three more have reportedly died in arrests …
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