New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is calling to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement based on a shooting in Texas about which he knows nothing. That is because Mamdani doesn’t care about New York City as much as he does about national political power.Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by ICE officers in Houston, and Democrats have rushed to set a narrative before the facts have come out. What we do know is that Araujo was driving recklessly while attempting to evade ICE vehicles, based on video. According to the Department of Homeland Security, Araujo allegedly “rammed an ICE law enforcement vehicle, refused to follow multiple verbal commands, and weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer.” Liberal media and Democratic politicians, meanwhile, have flocked to promote witnesses who argue otherwise.
The problem with this is that we have examples of witnesses getting details wrong in the last two prominent ICE/Border Patrol shootings. Witnesses claimed that Renee Good was given contradictory orders before she hit an ICE officer with her car and was shot and killed, but video made it clear that she was unambiguously ordered to get out of her car before she attempted to speed off. Witnesses claimed that Alex Pretti was not resisting Border Patrol agents (while he was carrying a gun) before he was shot and killed, but video disproved that as well. At best, politically motivated witnesses allowed their bias to color their memories. At worst, they were lying.
