In the span of a week, immigration officers shot and killed two people in the streets of American cities. And a third person died on Tuesday in Florida after being struck by a tractor-trailer while running from an encounter with federal agents.

Last week, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, his brother, and two others were driving to work at a construction site in Houston when ICE stopped their van. An agent then reportedly fired into the passenger window, fatally hitting Araujo. He was not, however, the intended target of ICE’s operation.

Fifty-two-year-old Araujo was a father of three from Mexico and had lived in the United States for 35 years. He was in the process of obtaining lawful status. His son, Ronaldo Salgado, learned about the shooting from a video on social media. Speaking at a press conference the following day, he described his father as a family man who, after a hard day at work, liked to spend the evenings resting on his porch, listening to music, and petting his dog.

“He did not deserve to die,” Salgado told reporters. “He did not deserve to be reduced to a headline of ‘Mexican Man Shot and Killed by ICE.’”

As the Araujo family grieved, another casualty made the headlines. On Monday, July 13, an ICE agent shot and killed 25-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero inside a vehicle in Biddeford, Maine. The Colombian-born father of a three-year-old girl worked two jobs as a food delivery driver and a cleaner at a veterinary clinic. Like Araujo, Guerrero apparently wasn’t ICE’s initial target either.

In both shootings, the agents involved wore no body cameras. The Department of Homeland Security has claimed, without providing evidence, that Araujo had “attempted to evade arrest” and “weaponized” his vehicle against law enforcement. About Guerrero, DHS said he “attempted to flee the scene” and the officer, “fearing for public safety,” fired his weapon.

Araujo and Guerrero are among some 20 people who have been shot at by immigration agents since September, according to the New York Times. And there have been at least 17 shootings of motorists by federal immigration officers during Trump’s second term, the Washington Post found.

“When you see now people losing their lives,” said Naureen Shah, the ACLU’s Director of Government Affairs, Equality........

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