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  "publishedAt": "2026-07-10T13:25:32.000Z",
  "site": "https://newrepublic.com",
  "tags": [
    "Breaking News",
    "Politics",
    "Republican Party",
    "Donald Trump",
    "Immigration",
    "ICE",
    "Deportation",
    "Mass Deportations",
    "shooting",
    "Texas",
    "Houston",
    "Lorenzo Salgado Araujo",
    "deadly traffic stop",
    "The New York Times",
    "told their lawyer",
    "Surveillance footage",
    "agree to self-deport"
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  "textContent": "The federal immigration agents who shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican father of three in Texas, weren’t even looking for him.\n\nWhen ICE agents conducted a deadly traffic stop in Houston, Texas, on Tuesday, they were looking for two people from Guatemala, two people familiar with the matter told The New York Times. Agents believed one of the people they were looking for drove a white van—instead, they found Araujo and three men he was driving to work.\n\nBefore conducting the traffic stop, federal agents knew they had the wrong man. They reportedly looked up the owner of the van and learned it was Araujo, who was undocumented. The supposedly “targeted operation” ended in ICE’s tenth fatal shooting this year.\n\nIn the hours after the shooting, the Department of Homeland Security claimed the officer had fired in self-defense after Araujo refused to comply with orders and “weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer.”\n\nBut the other three men in the car who were arrested by ICE told their lawyer that was a lie—there were no officers in front of or behind the vehicle. Surveillance footage from the traffic stop also doesn’t support DHS’s claim. One video showed that agents boxed in Araujo’s car, before he attempted to U-turn and drive the other way. Another video showed that there was no damage to the ICE agents’ vehicle.\n\nIn another potentially dark turn in the saga, the three men who were with Araujo are under pressure from immigration officials to agree to self-deport, Juan Proaño, a representative for the families and CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens, said in an interview with _The New Republic_.",
  "title": "The Man ICE Killed in Texas Wasn’t Even Person They Were Looking For"
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