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ICE is threatening to deport witnesses of its latest shooting

Department of Homeland Security. | Image: The Verge

Advocates are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security release bodycam footage of the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant who was killed by ICE officers in Houston during a traffic stop earlier this week. But DHS claims the agents involved in the shooting weren’t wearing body cameras because of the lengthy government shutdown that prevented ICE and Customs and Border Protection from receiving additional federal funding for 76 days – a shutdown that was itself spurred by congressional bickering over reforms to DHS after federal agents killed two civilians earlier this year.

Two competing narratives have em …

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