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An illegal immigrant was shot and killed in Houston after he tried to ram U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers during an operation, the agency said Tuesday.
ICE officers were attempting to conduct a traffic stop for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican citizen, at around 6:50 a.m., an ICE spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
Araujo tried evading the ICE officers when he “weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer, resulting in our officer firing his weapon in self-defense.”
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were trying to take Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, into custody in Houston when he tried ramming them with a car. An ICE officer opened fire, killing Araujo, the agency said Tuesday. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Araujo was struck and taken to a hospital, where he later died. The FBI is investigating the shooting.
On July 1, an ICE agent opened fire on an illegal immigrant who also tried ramming a vehicle into authorities, ICE said.
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A law enforcement officer walks past ICE logo ahead of a press conference on Thursday, May 11, 2017, at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
The officers were trying to take Clemente Lara-Hernandez, a Mexican national, into custody when he tried running into an officer and drove the wrong way on a one-way street before crashing into a civilian vehicle.
An ICE officer fired a shot, but no one appeared to be injured. Lara-Hernandez remains at large.
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“Our ICE law enforcement officers are facing a more than 1,300% increase in assaults, a 3,300% increase in vehicular attacks, and an 8,000% increase in death threats against them as they put their lives on the line to arrest the worst of the worst,” ICE said at the time of the shooting.
