“There is no point in pretending that ICE is here to protect us,” a resident told the City Council in its first meeting since an immigration agent killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
Colleen DeGuzman
Colleen DeGuzman is a general assignments reporter. In addition to covering a broad range of topics, she focuses on immigration developments in the state. Before joining the newsroom, Colleen was an enterprise reporter at Houston Public Media, Houston's NPR station. She's also reported for KFF Health News, the Austin-American Statesman, and The Monitor in McAllen. Colleen was previously a reporting fellow at the Texas Tribune, an intern at The Today Show, and NPR NextGen Radio mentee. Colleen, who studied mass communication at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, was born on one end of the border (El Paso) and proudly raised on the other (the Rio Grande Valley). She is based in Houston.
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Houston ICE Shooting
Houston protesters call on feds to release more information, and witnesses, to Tuesday’s ICE killing
Protesters demanded feds release footage of the shooting and the three men who were in the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo before he was killed.
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Houston ICE Shooting
Fatal Houston ICE shooting follows agency’s increased focus on street arrests
The risk of violent encounters rises when immigration enforcement shifts from picking up suspected criminals in jail to arresting people on the streets, experts say.
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Houston ICE Shooting
Son of man killed by ICE agent calls for investigation, says “My father would have complied.”
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s son said his father would not have tried to flee a law enforcement stop. Local leaders say they’ve received little information from federal officials about the shooting.
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Houston ICE Shooting
ICE agent fatally shoots Houston man who agency says tried to run over officer
The agency said the man was an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. His son said he’d lived here for 35 years and was attempting to obtain a work permit.
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Environment
Corpus Christi declines to seek federal grant for long-debated water desalination plant
City Council members traded insults before the 5-4 vote blocked an effort to apply for up to $120 million in federal grants to help build the treatment plant.
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Courts
Texas Supreme Court rejects lawsuit by survivors of Uvalde school shooting
Twenty students and five teachers accused DPS and Uvalde County of negligence in the delayed response to the deadly 2022 shooting.
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Environment
Recent rain gives Corpus Christi a 9-month reprieve on projected water crisis
Emergency restrictions are now expected to hit in September 2027, so the coastal city still faces a challenging future.
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Criminal Justice
Midland police ID suspect in shooting that left one victim dead, 10 injured
Officials said that the suspect, who had been wanted for attempted capital murder since Wednesday, was found dead in the building where he was barricaded.
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Politics
Corpus Christi’s delayed water response bubbles up to Texas governor’s race
Frustrated by a lack of progress, Gov. Greg Abbott threatened state action. Gina Hinojosa, his Democratic opponent, accused him of backing industry over people.
