A Houston City Council member is calling for an investigation into Tuesday's fatal shooting of an undocumented immigrant by an ICE agent in east Houston.

HOUSTON - Two days after a federal immigration agent fatally shot a man during what the government called an enforcement operation in Houston's East End, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirmed there is no body camera footage of the incident. DHS blamed what it called  back-to-back Democrat shutdowns  for delays in equipping ICE officers with the devices. The agency said body cameras have recently been deployed to more than half of ICE field offices, with the remaining offices set to receive them within 60 days.


The announcement comes as community leaders, elected officials and the victim's family demand answers about Tuesday's shooting, which killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during an attempted arrest in Houston's Magnolia Park neighborhood.

According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the shooting happened around 6:50 a.m. Tuesday in the 6800 block of Canal Street while agents were attempting to arrest Salgado Araujo, who ICE identified as an undocumented immigrant from Mexico.

ICE officials said Salgado Araujo rammed an ICE vehicle and attempted to run over an ICE agent, prompting  our officer firing his weapon in self-defense.  Salgado Araujo was later pronounced dead at Ben Taub Hospital.

Family members and civil rights advocates have disputed portions of the federal account and are calling for an independent, transparent investigation into the shooting.

DHS says officers had not been issued body cameras

In a statement released Thursday, DHS said the officers involved had not yet received their body-worn cameras and blamed government shutdowns they say delayed funding for that equipment.

 The officers involved in the incident in Houston had not been issued body-worn cameras due to back-to-back Democrat shutdowns,  DHS said.  The process of purchasing and issuing body-worn cameras to all of our ICE field offices was interrupted by the Democrats multiple government shutdowns. B

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