How ICE Keeps Killing
What Next | Daily News and Analysis
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🗓️ 14 July 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
As the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston demonstrates, ICE’s deportation surge is continuing—and so is the violence.
Guest: Arelis Hernández, reporter at the Washington Post covering the U.S. southern border, immigration, Texas and beyond.
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| 0:00.0 | Washington Post reporter Arellas Hernandez lives in San Antonio. |
| 0:10.6 | But for the last week, she's been 200 miles away in Houston. |
| 0:15.1 | I came to Houston after Mr. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot to death in a community that's one of the oldest |
| 0:23.5 | Mexican-American communities in Houston. It's called Magnolia Park, right? Magnolia Park on Houston's |
| 0:30.3 | East End, yes. Where's you at first? I went to the scene. I saw the growing memorial that was there |
| 0:37.2 | for Mr. Salgado Arou. |
| 0:40.3 | And then I went about trying to find witnesses. |
| 0:45.5 | For the last couple of years, Arellas has been covering the way immigration enforcement has changed in this country. |
| 0:52.5 | She's covered the way courts are flooded with deportation cases, |
| 0:56.2 | and the expansion of the president's border wall. She also tells the individual stories of |
| 1:02.2 | immigrants themselves, a Nigerian nun detained on her way to church, two teenage basketball |
| 1:09.3 | players who got arrested while waiting for the bus to school, |
| 1:12.9 | a Haitian woman who was released from custody and then froze to death. But the case of 52-year-old |
| 1:21.8 | Lorenzo Salgado Araujo killed less Tuesday while driving to a job site stood stood out because it was brazen, and because his |
| 1:31.0 | sons have been so open about their loss. |
| 1:34.4 | I want to tell you about my dad. |
| 1:37.0 | This is Lorenzo's son, Ronaldo. |
| 1:39.4 | I saw a video posted on Facebook that he had been shot. |
| 1:44.4 | I recognize him immediately. |
| 1:47.2 | Not from his appearance, but from his voice. |
| 1:51.0 | Crying for help as he lay on the street bleeding out. |
| 1:56.3 | Salgado Arajo's family has been open about something else, too, wanting a full investigation. |
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