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U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, along with Representatives Sylvia Garcia and Christian Menefee, spoke in Houston on October 26, 2026, calling for an end to funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unless structural changes and greater accountability are implemented. The lawmakers linked President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policies to economic harm in Houston, citing fears among workers that are affecting business operations and housing construction. Jeffries highlighted Garcia’s American Dream and Promise Act of 2026, which aims to provide a pathway to citizenship for certain undocumented immigrants, as a step toward reform.
The event followed a roundtable with union members and community leaders and took place in front of a mural honoring Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Houston home builder who was fatally shot by an ICE agent on July 7. Araujo had no criminal record and was not the intended target of the operation. Jeffries said immigration enforcement should be fair, just and humane, and condemned what he described as violence against law-abiding communities, referencing the cases of Alex Pretti and Renée Nicole Good.
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