National Immigration Project

National Immigration Project

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The National Immigration Project provides legal/technical support to immigration attorneys, community activists, advocates, and immigrant communities, while promoting justice in the criminal system, and at the intersection of criminal and immigration law. We are a membership organization of attorneys, advocates, and community members who are driven by the belief that all people should be treated with dignity, live freely, and flourish.

07/09/2026

On the morning of July 7, ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, while he was on his way to work in Houston’s East End. Agents left him bleeding and crying for help on the street.

In response, our Executive Director, Sirine Shebaya, issued the following statement:

"Once more, our hearts break for a family shattered by another violent death at the hands of ICE. Many of us at the National Immigration Project are immigrants ourselves, or children of immigrants. We look at Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and see our own fathers. The videos of his final moments are everywhere now, and we can neither watch them nor look away. This is a different kind of exhaustion, the exhaustion of grief, and our communities carry it every single day.

We have heard ICE’s self-defense story so many times we can recite it before the agency does. We know they lie; they have lied before. In Minneapolis. In Oregon. And when video surfaced and exposed those lies, no one was held accountable. The same story, the same silence, again and again.

They are counting on our collective exhaustion. It is the strategy itself: wear us down with one raid, one shooting, one harmful court decision after another, until we are too depleted to do anything but submit. But their strategy will not work."

Read the full statement: https://nipnlg.org/news/press-releases/ice-killed-lorenzo-salgado-araujo-we-demand-accountability

Detenido por el ICE cuando iba a graduarse: “Dijeron que iban a por lo peor de lo peor. Josué es uno de los mejores jóvenes que conocerás” 06/28/2026

Cuando Josué fue detenido, contaba con la Acción Diferida. Su abogada, Ellie Norton, de la organización sin ánimo de lucro National Immigration Project, ha presentado una petición de habeas corpus por considerar que la detención fue ilegal. Recientemente, el Servicio de Ciudadanía y Servicios de Inmigración (USCIS) canceló su Acción Diferida y tiene una orden de deportación.

“El ICE detiene a estos jóvenes aun cuando cuentan con Acción Diferida; poco después de la detención —especialmente si presentan una petición de habeas corpus para impugnarla—, el USCIS la revoca sin ofrecer explicaciones ni darles oportunidad de responder. Al menos un par de jueces de distrito y tribunales de otras jurisdicciones han señalado que esta medida parece ser claramente una represalia y un intento a posteriori de justificar lo que, desde un principio, fue una detención ilegal”, sostiene Norton.

Detenido por el ICE cuando iba a graduarse: “Dijeron que iban a por lo peor de lo peor. Josué es uno de los mejores jóvenes que conocerás” La detención de un estudiante hondureño muestra cómo la Administración Trump deja sin protección a los menores que fueron acogidos por sufrir abandono o abuso

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