Jose Trinidad Rojas Pilego, a witness to the fatal ICE shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Arajuo during a traffic stop in Houston, TX, was ordered released from ICE custody this week after a judge ruled his due process rights were being violated. The same judge blocked Rojas Pilego’s deportation in July.
The testimony of Rojas Pilego as well as the other passenger in his car directly contradicts the U.S. gov’t’s narrative of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s murder. Rojas Pliego described the government’s account as “a lie.”
Similar to Salgado Araujo, Rojas Pilego entered the U.S. decades ago and is attempting to gain legal status. If ICE agents want to detain him again, they must give noticef first and hold a pre-detention hearing.
(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)