Man fatally shot by ICE in Houston was not intended target, DHS says

The incident prompted protests in Houston on Wednesday, and four Democratic Congress members have demanded an independent investigation into Salgado’s death.

In a letter to DHS, Representatives Sylvia Garcia, Al Green, Lizzie Fletcher and Christian Menefeewrote, wrote that the incident was “not the first time ICE agents have used unnecessary, deadly force”.

They urged Senator Markwayne Mullin, head of the Department of Homeland Security, to not forget the cases of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two US citizens killed by federal agents in Minneapolis in January.

Referring to Salgado’s shooting on Tuesday, they wrote that “instead of answers and accountability, DHS and ICE released a statement echoing the same stories we have heard before, claiming an evasion of arrest, weaponisation of a vehicle, and that the fatal shooting was a result of self-defense”.

In the wake of the shooting, the Mexican government said it would file criminal complaints in the US over the deaths of more than a dozen of its citizens in US custody.

Mexican Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco said 14 Mexicans had died while in ICE custody and another three during ICE “arrest operations”.

Velasco said that he had been instructed by Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum to file the complaints and that their aim was to have the deaths of Mexicans in ICE custody or operations investigated “as criminal matters”.