About one hundred activists gathered on the steps of San Antonio City Hall to protest the fatal shooting of an illegal immigrant by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Houston, as reported by Breitbart.

The demonstration turned into a full-blown rally against law enforcement, border control, and immigration policy, with leftist organizers calling for the complete abolition of ICE.

Members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation were among those leading the gathering, holding signs and shouting chants accusing ICE of injustice and racism.

Their message was loud, but their facts were noticeably selective.

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The protest centered on the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national who had been living illegally in the United States and who, according to ICE, attempted to ram an officer with his vehicle during a targeted enforcement operation.

Corrie Rosen, one of the event organizers and a self-identified public school teacher, spoke passionately to the crowd, saying:

“He was in the country for 35 years, but let’s be clear, I don’t care if he was here for 35 years or 35 days, the injustice does not stand.”

For Rosen and her fellow activists, the issue seemed less about the facts of the case and more about using the incident as another excuse to smear federal immigration enforcement.

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According to federal authorities, Salgado Araujo applied for a work permit earlier this year and claimed he entered the United States in 2005.

His family, however, contradicted that timeline, saying he had been here much longer. Regardless of the timeline, Salgado was not a legal resident, yet the activists in San Antonio portrayed ICE as the villain for enforcing the law.

Rosen spent part of her speech attacking the opening of a new ICE detention center on the city’s East Side, calling it a “concentration camp.”

She told protesters that the facility was a misuse of taxpayer money and claimed it sat across from a school being closed due to neglect from the state.

What she left out was that the school, Essence Preparatory Charter School, had been shut down by the Texas Education Agency after repeated years of academic failure.

The closure had nothing to do with ICE or border enforcement.

The facts surrounding the Houston shooting paint a different picture than that shouted by protesters through bullhorns.

ICE officials said they had been conducting surveillance for weeks after receiving a credible tip from law enforcement partners about Salgado Araujo. When agents identified a van driven by a man matching his description, they attempted to stop the vehicle.

According to the agency, Salgado Araujo rammed a government vehicle, ignored multiple commands, and then used his car as a weapon against an officer, prompting the officer to fire in self-defense.

After the shooting, emergency responders transported Salgado Araujo to a Houston-area hospital, where he later died from his injuries.

The FBI’s Houston office has taken over the investigation, as is standard whenever federal agents are involved in an incident leading to loss of life.

That part of the story, of course, did not make it into many of the protesters’ chants.

Activists in Houston and San Antonio have used the shooting as a rallying cry to demand an end to immigration enforcement in Texas.

Protests have also been held in Houston’s East End and Magnolia Park neighborhoods, with large crowds carrying banners calling for ICE to be “shut down for good.”

It appears that for these activists, open borders and no accountability are the ultimate goals.

Even while the investigation continues, the rhetoric from groups like the Party for Socialism and Liberation shows no sign of cooling off.

Their vision for America looks more like lawlessness than justice. The idea that a federal officer should hesitate in the face of someone weaponizing a car is not rooted in concern for fairness.

It is rooted in hostility toward any form of enforcement that protects American sovereignty and public safety.

The broader public might question the priorities of activists who show more outrage over a lawfully justified shooting than they do over the risks posed by violent encounters with illegal immigrants.

ICE’s account, backed by surveillance and eyewitness reports, indicates the officer faced immediate danger. Yet left-wing radicals seem determined to rewrite the story into a narrative about systemic oppression.

Meanwhile, ordinary Americans, especially those living along the southern border, have grown tired of protests that distort reality and paint criminals as martyrs.

Communities are calling for secure borders, not the chaos that comes from ignoring immigration law.

The events in Houston are a reminder of how dangerous the job of law enforcement can be when politics replaces truth.

As the protests fizzle out, the facts remain. A man illegally in the country chose to resist arrest and endanger federal agents.

Activists can shout until their voices give out, but America is still a nation of laws, and no amount of chanting will change that.

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