DonOld Drumpf's administration gunned down and killed yet another good human being on the streets of a major US City yesterday:
Link: He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
"LORENZO SALGADO ARAUJO CAME TO THE UNITED STATES thirty-five years ago—a few years too late to benefit from the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, popularly known as the “Reagan amnesty.” He worked in construction. By the 2000s, he was a small business owner who provided jobs and work for other men. They would drive to the North Houston suburbs and build houses. His dream was to build his own home for his family one day—a dream he achieved.
On Tuesday morning, Lorenzo was picking up workers as usual shortly after 6 a.m. when he was confronted by ICE and killed. He was 52 years old.
The shooting in Houston’s historically Mexican-American East End community near Magnolia Park took place just five minutes from the site of Houston’s FIFA Fan Festival.
Lorenzo’s son Ronaldo Salgado, a teacher, wrote on Facebook Tuesday night that his father had been in the process of obtaining his work permit through the legal process."
It gets worse - as it always does with these ICE pieces of shit:
"In the emotional press conference, Ronaldo described his desperate scramble to find out information about what happened to his father. When he first heard about an interaction with ICE, the reports were conflicting. He hoped his father had simply been detained, so his first plan had been to find his father’s white work van and deliver it to his crew so that they might be able to finish work and get paid.
As time went on, Ronaldo remained in the dark. He did not learn about his father’s final moments from a hospital or law enforcement. Instead, confirmation of his death came in the cruel form of videos on social media.
“I recognized him immediately: not from his appearance, but from his voice crying in the street as he was bleeding out,” Ronaldo said through tears."
Americans saw how ICE openly LIED about the broad daylight shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis falsely claiming they were the aggressors. We saw how DHS leadership and ICE leadership went on TV and news shows and libeled the names of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by calling them terrorists. We have seen judges across the country throw ICE prosecutions out of court for lying about the circumstances of cases. The statements of the DHS and ICE officials from this corrupt administration aren't worth a pile of warm dog shit is what I am getting at.
And the fact that the US government killing unarmed people in the streets over civil immigration infractions is just a micro-blip in the news cycle shows what a massive failure our worthless fucking billionaire-owned "news" media is in this country, and it also shows the indifference of a nation of morally vacuous people who have allowed this kind of thug fascism to take control of their government and institutions for the sole purpose of inflicting cruelty and harm on some of our most vulnerable citizens.
The blood of Lorenzo Araujo is on the hands of Donald Trump and every MAGA crud who sides with him and continues to enable him.
---TFG
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