The Death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Shows Yet Again - No One is Safe when ICE is Present
Houston, Texas — In response to the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Houston, Texas on Tuesday, Carly Pérez Fernández, Communications Director at Detention Watch Network, issued the following statement:
“The evidence against ICE is indisputable. ICE kills people and threatens community safety across the country. No one is safe when ICE is present – whether on the streets or in one of the agency’s more than 200 abuse-ridden detention facilities. ICE was hastily created just two decades ago. Its existence is neither necessary, nor a foregone conclusion. People are dying in detention and ICE agents are tearing families apart and shooting people on the streets, making people less safe, and causing chaos wherever they go. We demand an end to the ICE age.”
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Detention Watch Network (DWN) is a national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, and strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the United States.