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The Mexican government says it will file criminal complaints in the United States over the deaths of more than a dozen of its citizens in US custody.<\/b><\/p>\n
Mexican Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco told journalists that the government would take “forceful legal action” to protect the human rights of Mexican citizens in the US.<\/p>\n
He said that 14 Mexicans had died while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and another three during ICE “arrest operations”. <\/p>\n
The incidents have not just caused outrage in Mexico. On Wednesday, more than a thousand people protested in Houston, where an ICE officer had shot dead Mexican national Lorenzo Salgado Araujo the day before. <\/p>\n
Salgado, 52, had been working as a builder for three decades in the Houston area after coming to the US as an undocumented migrant, his son said.<\/p>\n
Ronaldo Salgado told journalists that his father “did not deserve to be reduced to a headline of ‘Mexican man shot and killed by ICE'”.<\/p>\n
His family said Lorenzo Salgado had been on his way to work when he was shot by an ICE agent. <\/p>\n
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement published on X, that “ICE law enforcement attempted to conduct a vehicle stop as part of a targeted enforcement operation to arrest an illegal alien”.<\/p>\n