Houston voters leave "I Voted" stickers at a Mexican's memorial
Voters are leaving stickers where Lorenzo Salgado was shot by an ICE agent. Mexico's president says it is "very probable" that raids moved Latino voters.
Houston voters have been pasting "I Voted" stickers on the memorial of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo since Oct. 19, when early voting began in Texas. Salgado, a Mexican national, was shot dead by an ICE agent on July 7 in the city's East End.
His son Ronaldo was among the first to leave one. He says people who add a sticker tell him they voted for his father. Turnout in the neighborhood is usually low, and the family says it cannot recall a higher one than this year's.
The Harris County medical examiner ruled the death a homicide, a medical classification that does not by itself establish criminal responsibility. ICE says Salgado tried to run over an agent with his truck and that another officer fired in self-defense. The family and witnesses deny that, and the county prosecutor's office is investigating. The agent has not been charged.
On Thursday, two days after the Nov. 3 midterms, a reporter asked Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum at her morning press conference whether President Donald Trump's immigration raids had pushed Latino voters. Sheinbaum answered: "Yes, it is very probable." She said she had no data and pointed to "racism" and to raids targeting people "because of the color of their skin."
She did not mention ICE or Salgado. No poll cited in the case measures the effect, so the link between his death and the result is a reading by his family, by analysts and by the president, not a figure.
