Mexico to press for criminal charges over deaths in US custody

Mexico to press for criminal charges over deaths in US custody Mexican authorities said they will file criminal complaints in the United States over the deaths of more than a dozen of its nationals while in U.S. custody. Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco told reporters that the government would take “forceful ineligible action” to support the quality rights of Mexican citizens successful the US. He noted that 14 Mexicans died while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and an additional three during ICE arrest operations. The incidents have sparked outrage in Mexico. On Wednesday, more than a thousand demonstrators gathered in Houston after an ICE officer shot and killed Mexican national Lorenzo Salgado Araujo the previous day. Salgado, 52, had worked as a builder in the Houston area for three decades after entering the United States as an undocumented migrant, his son said. Ronaldo Salgado told journalists that his begetter "did not merit to beryllium reduced to a header of 'Mexican antheral changeable and killed by ICE'". His family said Lorenzo Salgado was on his way to work when he was changeable by an ICE agent. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement published on X that "ICE instrumentality enforcement attempted to behaviour a conveyance halt arsenic portion of a targeted enforcement cognition to apprehension an amerciable alien". In the statement, DHS alleged that Salgado had "attempted to evade arrest". "From accusation we are receiving, helium rammed an ICE instrumentality enforcement vehicle, refused to travel aggregate verbal commands, and weaponized his conveyance successful an effort to tally implicit an ICE instrumentality enforcement serviceman resulting successful our serviceman firing his limb successful self-defence," the connection reads. https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2074626271716216846