The incident has prompted protests in Houston – essentially the most populous metropolis within the state of Texas – and 4 Democratic members of Congress have demanded an unbiased investigation into Salgado’s demise.
In a letter to DHS, Sylvia Garcia, Al Inexperienced, Lizzie Fletcher and Christian Menefee wrote, wrote that the incident was “not the primary time ICE brokers have used pointless, lethal power”.
They urged Markwayne Mullin, head of the Division of Homeland Safety, to not neglect the circumstances of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two US residents killed by federal brokers in Minneapolis in January.
Referring to Salgado’s capturing on Tuesday, they wrote that “as an alternative of solutions and accountability, DHS and ICE launched an announcement echoing the identical tales we’ve heard earlier than, claiming an evasion of arrest, weaponization of a car, and that the deadly capturing was a results of self-defense”.
Federal investigations have already begun, however in keeping with the Houston police chief, there are restrictions on a state probe.
The Workplace of Inspector Common for DHS, an inner watchdog, is investigating the capturing demise and FBI Houston is main an investigation into the potential assault on a federal regulation enforcement officer, an ICE spokesperson mentioned in an announcement to the BBC.
The BBC has contacted the FBI for remark.
On the request of the Houston mayor, the pinnacle of the Houston Police Division (HPD) additionally despatched a letter to DHS on Friday indicating that he’ll make sources obtainable to assist the investigation into the deadly 7 July capturing in “a well timed, clear, and thorough method”.
“The HPD acknowledges the seriousness of the matter and helps an intensive investigation,” Chief Noe Diaz’s letter mentioned.
Diaz additionally mentioned that, below federal regulation, native regulation enforcement has no unbiased jurisdiction to analyze federal businesses or federal regulation enforcement personnel who’re performing of their official duties.
Within the wake of the capturing, the Mexican authorities mentioned it could file legal complaints within the US over the deaths of greater than a dozen of its residents in US custody.
Mexican Overseas Minister Roberto Velasco mentioned 14 Mexicans had died whereas in ICE custody and one other three throughout ICE “arrest operations”.
Velasco mentioned that he had been instructed by Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum to file the complaints and that their purpose was to have the deaths of Mexicans in ICE custody or operations investigated “as legal issues”.
Salgado Araujo is at the very least the eighth particular person to die through the Trump administration’s immigration operations, in keeping with the Related Press. No immigration officers have been charged within the deaths.