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Mexican slain by US immigration officer: Lawyer representing witnesses disputes ICE account

"He had no criminal record (...) His only crime was that he fit the description of another man that they were looking for," Hugo Balderas-Ibarra, the attorney representing the three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican man fatally shot by US immigration officials in Texas, says, disputing Immigration and Customs Enforcement's account of the shooting. "I can tell you with conviction that my clients' versions of the events are extremely different from what ICE agents are saying, or what the agency is saying," Balderas-Ibarra tells a presser in Houston. The case marks the first fatal shooting involving US immigration officers since two January killings in the northern city of Minneapolis that drew national headlines.

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00:00He had no criminal record.
00:01He had been in here in the United States for over 35 years, a business owner.
00:06He had U.S. citizen children.
00:08His only crime was that he fit the description of another man that they were looking for.
00:15The agency's versions of the killings have varied, and I won't get into all those different
00:20versions, but I can tell you with conviction that my clients' versions of the events are
00:27extremely different from what ICE agents are saying or what the agency is saying.
00:32This has become a pattern where ICE agents claim that they used their vehicle as a deadly
00:38weapon, that they tried to run over the agents, and the agent shot in self-defense.
00:43But all three of my clients reiterated that at no point was there ever an agent standing
00:49in front of the vehicle, nor was an agent ever placed in the line of danger.
00:54I talked to Mr. Ventola yesterday by telephone after trying to reach him for most of the week.
01:00He confirmed that Lorenzo Salgado Arroja was not the target of the operation, nor was his
01:08brother, who was a passenger in the vehicle.
01:12The director said that ICE was searching for an individual with a final removal order when
01:18officers believed, who officers believed had entered the van, and that they had an administrative
01:25warrant.
01:27Lorenzo Salgado Arroja said that he did not know the name of the individual that ICE was targeting,
01:31and that he could not clearly identify which passenger they were seeking.
01:38The director described the operation as a targeted enforcement action resulting in a vehicle stop.
01:45There's been some discrepancy between whether it was targeted, whether they were just stopping
01:50traffic, so it was actually both.
01:52...
01:56...
02:01...
02:22I'll see you next time.
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