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Investigative reporter @texastribune. Prior @propublica @houstonchron @reuters etc. Polk Award winner, Pulitzer finalist. 🇿🇦 grown. lkriel@texastribune.org
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A Border Patrol agent killed a migrant in Texas last December. Officials are still withholding details.

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By Lomi Kriel
| San Antonio Current Verified
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer looks at paperwork inside his vehicle after apprehending groups of asylum seekers in Starr County on Aug. 3, 2021. Shortly before Christmas last year, a Border Patrol agent shot and killed Isaias Sanchez Barbosa, a 31-year-old Mexican, after he crossed the Rio Grande with a group of other migrants into Starr County.
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Witness to Houston ICE shooting released from immigration detention

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By Ayden Runnels Verified, Lomi Kriel, Alex Nguyen
| Gilmer Mirror Verified
By Ayden Runnels, Lomi Kriel and Alex Nguyen, The Texas Tribune July 27, 2026 One of the witnesses to the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo has been released from federal immigration custody after a federal judge ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to discharge him. Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego left the Montgomery ICE Processing Center in Conroe, north of Houston, on Wednesday — within the 48 hour window the judge’s Monday order gave DHS to set him free.
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Witness to Houston ICE shooting must be released from immigration detention, judge orders

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By Ayden Runnels Verified, Lomi Kriel
| Yahoo Verified
A federal judge on Monday ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to release from their custody one of the witnesses to a federal immigration agent's fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego must be released from detention within 48 hours of the order, which was issued Monday evening. Authorities must release Rojas Pliego in a public space and give his attorneys notice at least three hours beforehand, according to the order.
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