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Justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo | Domingo Garcia on the ICE Shooting in Houston
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Welcome to a special episode of Tejano Talks.
Stand with the Salgado Araujo family: https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-loving-memory-of-lorenzo-salgado-araujo-52-years-old
On July 7, 2026, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo — a 52-year-old homebuilder, husband, and father of three — was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston's East End while driving his construction crew to a job site. He had lived in the United States for 35 years.
Hosts Domingo Garcia and Hiram Garcia break down what happened, what the video actually shows, and what the Salgado Araujo family is asking for now. Domingo is an attorney and the former national president of LULAC.
ICE has said the officer fired in self-defense. The family, their attorney, and the passengers who were in the van dispute that account. The Harris County Medical Examiner has ruled the manner of death a homicide. The DHS Office of Inspector General and the Harris County District Attorney are both investigating.
Say his name: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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IN THIS EPISODE
— Why the family and LULAC are calling for an independent investigation
— What surveillance video shows about the unmarked vehicles and the condition of the van
— The pattern: how ICE's account here echoes previous cases
— Fingerprinting U.S. citizens: a case from Domingo's own law office
— Why Domingo says the answer is organizing and the ballot box, not violence
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CHAPTERS
00:00 What happened to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
01:30 "He weaponized his vehicle" — ICE's account, and the pattern
02:20 What the video shows: no damage, unmarked cars, masks
03:20 Who Lorenzo was: a father, a builder, 35 years in this country
05:00 Latinos as political leverage
06:00 Domingo Garcia: 37 years fighting for justice
07:10 No body cameras, no accountability
08:00 Number 17: deaths in ICE custody and enforcement operations
10:00 Turning out Tejano voters
14:00 Surveillance, privacy, and who's next
14:40 Fingerprinting U.S. citizens at a gas station
16:00 "They're not trained" — quotas and racial profiling
17:00 Why "illegal alien" is dehumanizing language
19:00 A movement back to values
22:30 Boycotts, marches, and the Sensenbrenner bill
25:30 Get organized — don't get manipulated by anger
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ABOUT THE HOSTS
DOMINGO GARCIA is a trial attorney and one of the most consequential Latino political figures in Texas. He served on the Dallas City Council and, in 1993, became the first Latino elected Mayor Pro Tem of Dallas. In the Texas Legislature he co-authored HB 1403 — the Texas DREAM Act — securing in-state tuition for any student who graduates from a Texas high school. In 2006 he organized the largest march in Texas history, when more than 500,000 people filled downtown Dallas for immigration reform. He is a past national president of LULAC and has practiced law for 37 years.
HIRAM GILBERTO GARCIA is a journalist, media producer, and public affairs strategist based in Austin. His frontline reporting from the 2020 protests reached tens of millions and put him on the ground for some of the defining moments of that year. A first-generation Mexican American from El Paso, he graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in Political Science and International Relations, where he served as a LULAC chapter president. He has organized large-scale political marches and advised public institutions on strategic communications, including TxDOT, Capital IDEA, and American Gateways.
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Welcome to Tejano Talks. My name is Inam Garcia. I'm here with Domingo, attorney out of Dallas. We are having a special episode today about the death, actually, the killing and the murder of Lorenzo Salgado, correct? In Houston on Tuesday.
SPEAKER_00Yes. You know what? For everybody who's watching Intehano Talks to every Tejano American, the first thing I heard on Tuesday morning, uh I got a call Tuesday morning, um, and that a uh a Hispanic man had been killed in in uh Houston, and they sent me a video. And it was a horrifying video. It was a a man on the floor uh who had been shot, and they were handcuffing him, nobody was helping him, he was unarmed, and you could hear him uh crying for help. And he was just he was treated like a dog.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Like a dog who had been shot in the street that nobody gave a damn about. And I just it just stuck me right there. And then a couple hours later I get a call from the family that they had contacted Lulak and um they needed help. And I knew because I had been in Minneapolis when Robin Good and Betty were shot, uh, that that sometimes uh when a Latino gets shot, they don't get the attention um that when a white person gets shot.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER_00And I said, that's not gonna happen. It didn't happen to Vanessa Guillen, it's not gonna happen with Lorenzo Salgado. And so we mobilized and we had a press conference uh the same day, and we said we want to know who, what, where, why. Uh and then the following day we found out more information and we knew that he was unarmed. Uh look the you know, you gotta remember how I played it. An illegal alien tried to ram his uh van into one of our vehicles, and then we had to shoot him in self-defense. He weaponized his vehicle. These are code words that I say. Code words. Code words for he was a dangerous Mexican who was trying to kill us. Now that is all bullshit. Muro pedo. The reality was, as we saw in with the uh good case in Minnesota, Miss Martinez, who was shot in Chicago twice. They said she tried to ram them, she weaponized the car, then the videos came out, charges are dropped, now she's suing ICE. And I said, this is the same ball game, same script, different person, different city. And when we started analyzing the video, we saw there's no damage to the van. The van, if you look at the van, there's no damage. So he didn't hit anybody.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And now we got videos that have been supported and given to us before the incident and after, showing that uh they were the ones they were the ice were in unmarked cars and uh wearing masks. And just think about if you're in Lorenzo's place, you're six o'clock in the morning, people. He was picking up his workers in Magnolia Park, which is one of the oldest barrios in Houston. And then a car gets to his right and a car comes from his back and they're telling and they're trying to get him to move scoot over. I'm sorry, I I would have said, uh-uh, not until I stopped at gas station or a 7-Eleven. I'm being carjacked. Okay, so if he didn't stop immediately, it's because he didn't know what was happening. And but he was unarmed. Uh 35 years here in this country without even a ticket. Uh, he supported uh his wife and he had three children. Uh and I want to just say because I it it it reflects about what he could have been anybody's father. But he has papa de cualquiera de nos others. Uh alguien que se levantaba in la mañana tour, uh he worked construction, my dad worked construction. I could have been a U.S. citizen and it wouldn't have mattered. Right. And you know, he his oldest son, uh Lorenzo, uh excuse me, uh Ronaldo, uh is a teacher. Yeah. He graduated from the University of Houston. He teaches high school. All three kids are educated. He teaches high school in uh Houston, and he's some of his students were there at the press conference. His second son, Lorenzo Jr., graduated from Tufts University and is an engineer. Okay. And his third one is a sophomore in college, and he was paying, he paid for their school. And I'm just saying, that is the American dream. And ICE agents kill that American dream for the Sagalo family, and we need to make sure they don't kill anybody else's dreams. They don't kill anybody else's father. And that's why we need to stand up. We got to protest, we gotta file suits, and we gotta vote. We want to take these SOBs, racist, extreme writers, out of office at every level, from the local level in Harris County, statewide, and national. Because the only way we defeat racism is we vote them out. Because that's how they got in.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, no, you know, like it really frustrates me because when you look at it, it's really at the end of the day, about ego, like the administration's ego, these ice agents' ego. Like they're going out there, they're racially profiling people.
SPEAKER_00It's about power.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00And they're using Latinos' political pinatas to get power, to scare white folks, white working class people. They're taking their tax money, giving it to the billionaires and the oligarchs, and they're saying, Oh, it's Juan over there, the gardener, his fault. It's Maria over there cleaning toilets at the hotel, it's her fault. And it's it's rank racism. Hitler did it in the 30s. It's the Jews' fault. It's the gypsies, it's the communists. And he blames everybody except himself. Except himself and his party. But he does it for political power. And this is what this is. And so we need to take their political power away. We need to take that away. And that's why I say in November, we need to throw un chingazo politico and all those mega maranos, all those mega maggots, we gotta get all of them out of office, and we gotta get people that represent the people. Uh, we need a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. And we as Tejanos need to stand up because that's if Texas goes blue, the entire Republican political establishment goes down the drain. And they're doing it because they're hunting us.
SPEAKER_01There's no due process. You you can't you can't.
SPEAKER_00And it doesn't matter that you're a U.S. citizen, it doesn't matter that you know you know you were here five generations, or that you have been like Lorenzo, been here 35 years. It doesn't matter.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Okay? And this politica has to be stopped. We need to throw uh trampismo and tustrompetas all into the political dust of history. Hello, my name is Domingo Garcia, and I've been an attorney for 37 years. I don't want things because of luck. I want it because of experience. We originally had a case where a bobcat was working on the 50th floor of a downtown skyscraper. It pushed concrete down and it killed a co-worker who was in his truck eating his buttons, talking to his wife on the phone. We got six million dollars of justice for the family. No amount of money can bring back a husband or a father. But if you want justice, call 713 Domingo now. Call 713 Domingo for justice.
SPEAKER_01It's a complete lie to say that Trump is trying to fix the immigration system. He's just racially profiling people, putting him in jail just so that he could say he did something when really he's doing nothing, but gaining more money. His kids are millionaires. He's destroying lives, like you know, and and there's a reason why there's due process, right? There's a reason why people don't just get arrested and shot when people think they're like accused of a crime.
SPEAKER_00And then this but the IC just right now have no accountability. They have zero, no, not even body camps. They're the they're they they're uh acting as a police officer, arresting, trying, and executing judge, juror, and executioner. That's what happened to Lorenzo. And they know that the FBI is not gonna do nothing, they know that the Department of Justice is not gonna do nothing. And that's why the Salgado family wants justice. Uh, we met with the the Harris County District Attorney and we've asked that they conduct an independent investigation. And I welcome uh the Mexican president has contacted Lulac, uh, so is the Mexican ambassador, and they're wanting to they're looking at getting the United Nations to maybe open a civil rights, human rights investigation over the left. Lorenzo's not the only one, by the way.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_00He's number 17 this year. Number 17. And these are just Mexican initials.
SPEAKER_01And that's not counting all the like unaccounted deaths in the jails and the prison centers.
SPEAKER_0014 in jail, three on the streets, and 58 total. Before Trump got elected, one or two a year, and usually it was somebody who died from a heart attack or something. It wasn't the cruelty, the sadism. Um, the that's not what Christians do. That's not what Americans do. That's not what the Statue of Liberty stands for. And it pisses me off. And I just say it should piss off everybody. What happened to Lorenzo Salgado, what happened to his family, uh, because that's happening to a lot of families that you never hear about. Uh, and the only way to stop them is by beating them at the ballot box. So if you're not registered to vote, get your ass out there and register to vote. And if you have a primo or a tia que no vota, no, no, no, no, importa, si importa. Su voto vale. Your vote counts. So make sure in November, get them to the polls and make sure that we change who our senator, who our governor, who our local state reps and state senators are, because that's the way you put a stop to this bullshit. Because I don't want to go to any more funerals. I don't want to see anybody else's father die like Lorenzo Salgado.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's it's and it's even worse, you know, in the more recent years. I know everybody's like, things have gone better, but we're literally regressing in our civil rights progress that we did in the 60s. Like this is an administration, it's a it's an administration we've never seen before that's literally just blatantly willing to kill people, be racist, you know, and and and and the only way to stop them, unfortunately, is voting. A lot of people don't believe that voting would do much, but it really does. I mean, you know, Texas really is full of Tejanos that would vote, Democrat, that would vote like it's not even about party. It's just voting against people that are like Trump. And if more people voted, I Texas would change. I mean, Bernie said it himself, and I think you know, other candidates really believe it when they say that, you know, Texas is a progressive state. This is not the kind of thing we need to be facing. It just takes activating more folks, getting more people to vote, getting your family, your cousin who doesn't care. I mean, like, we all know a cousin, an aunt, an uncle that's like, nah, I don't vote because like I don't really care. Politics is not my thing. It's all our thing, you know, because like once a father is dead or, you know, somebody, one of your family members is dead, like now it's you know of your interest to be involved. But we wouldn't want to wait till that. We want to stop it now.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and like, you know, all the people that were watching the Mexico team, you know, I think 30,000 people showed up at one watch party down in the valley, uh the the here in in Dallas, you know, 15, 20,000 fans were showing up uh Mexico. Just like you showed up for that, yeah, show up to vote. That makes a bigger difference, okay? So you quieres que viva la raza if you want our team to win. That's the American team, by the way. The team that stands for liberty and justice for all, the team that really believes that all men and women are created equal. That team, if they turn out to vote, we win. It is about fail, it is about family, and it is about patria, and you have to defend it. And they murder one of our family.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00They cannot get away with that.
SPEAKER_01And and and they won't, you know what? I'm I know that all the folks watching and everybody like that really cares about this will stand up, but it's time to do more than just like, you know, post a Facebook post or you know, post something. Like, really, it's about action, you know what I mean? And and and it doesn't just end at voting. Like, you gotta support the candidates, you know, are out there to try to stop this, you know, people that you believe in, they need your help. I mean, they need us to volunteer because ultimately ICE is gonna continue to get away with it. You know, Congress is not gonna do anything until we speak up. And that's really at the core of the issue, right? Not enough people have spoken up. I don't know what those 30,000 fans are doing, but if we stood up for Lorenzo like we did for the selection, like this this wouldn't happen.
SPEAKER_00It would transform America. Uh, there's a woman named Gina Nojosa Steve rep from Austin, she's running for governor of Texas. There has not been uh a Mexican-American governor in Texas since 1845. So I mean, and we're the majority, okay? And by the way, uh are there been some good uh uh persons that of any color they could be? Yes, but we also have a right to be there. And let me just say also we need to uh uh everybody watching today. Uh the uh Lorenzo Tarcaso's family's hurting. Uh they need help. Lorenzo was the the pillar uh of their community of their family. And Lulac uh has set up a GoFundMe page to pay for the funeral and the expenses. He was taking care of his wife, he was taking care of his youngest son to go to college, and they need our help. So go to uh lulac.org, go to the Lorenzo Salgado GoFundMe page. Five, ten, twenty, thirty dollars. It's gonna make a difference for that family. Okay, let them know they're not gonna be left behind that we care. So make that difference. Also, if you want to help make a difference, donate to lulac.org. Lulac is the largest uh and oldest Latino civil rights organization founded in 1929 because there was discrimination and racism against La Raza back. Just like it is now. And we're seeing it again. And so I'm saying uh help Lulac do more to represent not only Lorenzo, but anybody else who's a victim. So if you can donate to lulac.org, uh also go down there and the Lulac Adelante Pack, make your donations now because those are the ones that will make a difference. And just like when Black Lives Matter stood up for George Floyd, okay, they were able to galvanize America over that. We need to galvanize and remember Lorenzo. And I think we need justice for Lorenzo. And this is how people out there can help.
SPEAKER_01And if you're not worried about this, you're not really thinking about the issue because ICE, as they increase their operations, they're also increasing their ability to do surveillance. Our privacy is like disappearing, and with that, the government is taking more liberties to try to do whatever it wants to do with their personal lives. So right now it's ICE and it's Latinos, but tomorrow, you know, that same technology that ICE uses to surveil people is gonna bleed into all of our police departments. And if we're not careful, it's gonna be weaponized against the Latino community, it's gonna be weaponized against everybody, actually. You know what I mean? And it's just a matter of time because this is not even necessarily against just Latinos and black people, this is against poor people, you know, this is against low-income people. The rich people, they just want to be richer, they want to take more control, and they do that by keeping track of us, by setting up all these systems, and they're testing them, you know, on Latinos. They're starting with us.
SPEAKER_00And we recently had another case at my law office uh about three months ago. A U.S. citizen and two of his guys were construction workers, right? And they stopped at a gas station uh to get gas and some drinks before they went to work. And um, I showed up and they asked them for their papers. They go, hey, we're U.S. citizens. And they started videotaping, you know, so we got all of this on video. And they go, Yeah, well, prove me that you're a U.S. citizen. And they pull out their driver's license, and you know, they're all all three of them are Tejanos, U.S. citizens. And they they get looked at it and say, We'll be back. They come back, he goes, Okay, he brings a tablet and he says, We need all your fingerprints. And he goes, Why do you want my fingerprints? I'm a U.S. citizen. That's ridiculous. He goes, Well, you know, you can give me your fingerprints now, or I can take you in and we give fingerprints later. And of course, they wanted to go to work, so they gave him their fingerprints, and you know, they contact our office. Why are they taking U.S. citizen fingerprints? People who are here legally.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Me or you, me or Harim, anybody else, and and and I would have said no. Uh, but you know, somebody uh uh who's a construction worker who doesn't want any problems, doesn't want any trouble, hasn't done anything wrong.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. But Watson follow the law, you know, and and most of these almost everyone's.
SPEAKER_00But that's not the law.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00They can't take their fingerprints if you're not a criminal. Think about when they take your mugshot and your fingerprints, you're you're convicted of something. Not when you're just going to work, not when you haven't committed any crime. But what I'm saying is ICE is out of control. The ICE has um you know, it takes the nail techs take longer to get their license than a border patrol agent.
SPEAKER_01A barber takes longer, yeah.
SPEAKER_00It takes longer. They're not trained, they're not prepared. They were told to protect the border, not to be uh terrorizing our communities in in the streets of Houston or Dallas or San Antonio or LA or Chicago. That's not their duty. They're doing it because they got to meet a quota.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I think that's what happened to Lorenzo. These IC just said, hey, we need 10,000 arrests. And they're out there just targeting and hunting for anybody that's brown and black. And uh, we need to push back. That's illegal, that's racial profiling. I fought all my life to get the end of racial profiling. Yeah, and and now it's back. It's reared, it's ugly head, and now you're brown. Uh they're they're thinking you might be an illegal alien. And by the way, illegal alien is a way to dehumanize people. If you do something to an illegal alien, you didn't do something to a father, to a husband, to a Lorenzo. And that's what they're trying to do. Uh and we need to make sure we stand back. No, we need to call their names Lorenzo Salgado. That was who was killed, not an illegal alien. The son said something that was very uh touching. Yeah, he said, I don't want my father's memory to be regulated to Mexican National, shot by ICE.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00He and then he went and said who his father was. And I think that's what we need to remember every time. These are people, they're not just another stat.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And and and that that that's the most important reminder. Like, it's it's humans, they're just not numbers. Because it's really easy to watch the news and almost separate yourself and then just go on with your daily life. But if it was your cousin or it was your deal, you would really act. I I I tell people all the time, like, if you really cared about your community, the next time you saw somebody shot in the news, you wouldn't just think about them as another number, you would think about them as if they were your deal or your dead. Because Domingo, personally, like, you know, when I think about my activism or why I get involved in politics, like I think about my mom, but then that reminds me of all the moms that are like just like my mom that, you know, are out there suffering, they're working hard just to get killed by ice. It makes no sense. But, you know, again, you can't sit down and think it was just another Mexican national. You have to really act and pretend like it was your family. And it's not pretending, it's your community. You know, it's somebody that looks just like you, worked just as hard. You know, literally, this man built Texas. Like this man literally built homes in Texas. We always say this Tejanos built Texas, and we're the ones being targeted.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, we have sweating tears and blood. Um, I think it's really important that uh we get out of here uh a movement, a movement to bring America back to its values, uh, a movement to bring us as who are Christians back to our values of how we treat our neighbor, how we treat the least among us. And uh, you know, I think that uh people are forgetting that. I I can't believe uh some of the uh postings on my social media, like uh they deserve what they got or you know, send them all back. Like there's no empathy. They people on I call it the the the MAGA maggots, they've been so uh brainwashed, so um smeared in propaganda that uh cruelty, sadism um to others is something they take pride in, something they defend. And that's not what Americans are. Americans were always about defending the little guy, you know. And we were the little guy. Yeah, no, well, I'm just saying like World War II. It was Japan that attacked us. And we uh Japan was a militaristic uh country, the rape of Nike and all that kind of stuff. Germany was killing Jews and taking over Europe. Uh we were defenders of democracy. Yeah, we were defenders of justice, we were defenders of of of the of the liberal uh American views about you know fairness and equality. But now we've seen that turned upside down. Like right now, I see a government that is almost Nazi-like in how they operate and how they try to get all power in one person. And I think it's only Americans that can stop that from happening. And right now, that power is in the ballot box. Volunteering, if you don't, if you're a permanent resident or you're whatever your legal status, you can volunteer on a campaign. Uh get involved, make a difference, or run for office. I did it, it was great. I was a city council member, I was a state representative, I was mayor pro tem, I was president, national president of Lulak. Uh, you know, throw your hat in the ring, make a difference. You know, me and you have interviewed a lot of young people. A 29-year-old woman just got elected Congress in Denver, Colorado, and beat out a 15-term incumbent. Uh, the people can make a difference if we decide to get together.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, no, and it's it's all about uniting, you know, like it's all about remembering, like, really it's a it's a power struggle from the people at the top, you know, trying to get us to fight each other. I like it's it's really obvious. I mean, like, you know, whether you're black, brown, or white, like if you're poor, you're gonna suffer in this country. And and and scaling up the ladder of like social economics is quite literally impossible, and it's getting even more impossible. And and you're mad that like, or and I'm saying you conservatives like are mad that you know it's immigrants or it's because Democrats ruin the economy when it's like Trump becoming a billionaire while being president, pocketing your money. Our money, our our money, you know, and and it's it's really it's literally a distraction, and it's that obvious, but you know, like you get so convinced, you get so caught up that like you don't have a job because an immigrant took it from you when it's like some trans kid is over there and the girls are like I don't give a damn, I really about it.
SPEAKER_00Don't yeah, I mean, I believe everybody should be treated fairly. But I mean, they use these cultural wedge issues immigrants, uh, gays, blacks, it's their fault. It's all their fault. You don't you didn't get a raise because, like I said, Juan or Leroy are out there working. You didn't, you know, you you you your standard of living, you don't got health care. You go broke when somebody gets sick, got eating some government. Right, because illegal aliens are taking your health care. No, they don't, okay? If you're undocumented in this country, you get nothing from the government. And you pay taxes. Prohibit it. Okay. There's a way for you to do that. They have to pay. If they go to the emergency room at Bentab or Parkland or whatever hospital, they have to pay for it. And that's something because if they don't have health insurance, and most of them don't. So again, it's the big lie. Um, and Hitler talked about the big lie. You get if you make a lie big enough, yeah, people will believe it. And if you repeat the big lie enough, people will believe it. So what we gotta do is liar, liar, pants on fire, no echan mentiras. We're gonna tell you the truth, we're gonna beat you with the truth, and eventually truth will overcome.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And look, it's easy to get mad and want to resort to violence, but there's no need for that. Like, we are powerful enough as a people to stand up against these powers without having to be violent. Because the truth is there's more of us than them. You know what I mean? And we're the ones essentially kind of willingly giving them their money. I I want to remind everybody of the boycotts in the 60s, you know, like that were extremely effective in like moving the civil rights movement forward. Like, we have to boycott, we have to like, you know, start to stand up. Not violently, though.
SPEAKER_00I see a lot of people who like want to we we in 2008 there they were trying to pass a bill that would make any immigrant a felon. Um and half a million people marched in the streets of Dallas. I was at the front of that march. Half a million people marched in Chicago and Los Angeles and thousands more around the country. And that's it. It was called the Cinsenbrenner Bill. And that bill died. We defeated them. I know that we can again, it it's okay. March, protest, uh, peaceful uh, you know, uh expressions of our position, uh, go vote. Um and I know that we can we can win this. And I know we will. Uh I know I think the first Latino or Latina president is walking the streets of America right now.
SPEAKER_01They are out there.
SPEAKER_00And we got to make sure that we lay the groundwork to allow them one day to get up there and be at the White House and create a government that is helping people, not trying to terrorize people.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's what we have right now is a government of terror, and the whole world is watching us, right? Because we have a responsibility too, like as Latinos, to show, you know, our power, you know, to stand up for family members, but more than anything, like you said, to to give each other that hope that we will change things. And and it's possible. Let me go. I mean, you've done it, it's been done. Even, you know, we've come back from some of the darkest times.
SPEAKER_00Like we abolish slavery, we could abolish ice, you know, like so as that to my fellow Tejanos, my fellow Americans, if you want to make a difference, if you want to change America, uh if you want to stand up for what's in the Statue of Liberty, what's in our Bible, and what's in our hearts, then you get involved, you know. Join a notion uh Lulak today, join uh any organization that's progressive and standing up for the rights of all Americans. Uh make a donation, volunteer, or run for office. That's how you make a difference. Con ganas, todo se puede. Con un espíritu, conociendo nuestras razones andos, como cristianos, todo se puede. Así es que hagan la diferencia starting tomorrow. Make a difference and let Lorenzo Salgado's family know that his memory will not be for naught, that his words, his values, and his death is gonna inspire a movement that we are starting today. Vote the the mega Republicans out and let's elect the people who will represent us, all of us, by the way. Um and also make make sure that you recall that change never happens because uh of an accident. It happens when people get together and organize. So get organized and go and make a difference. Okay, so uh adelante Raza and don't give up. Uh great listening to Tejano Talks, and let me just tell you, I'm not gonna stop, and we're not gonna stop until we get justice for Lorenzo Salgado and until we make sure that nobody's father, el padre de ninguna otra familia, muere como murió él.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely, and and one little thing, uh Lomingo, because I feel like these are emotional times, like social media or news, like all of it is clickbait, like all of it is like how can I make you angry enough to read this article and share it again? But it's not about the anger. I mean, like the anger is an important motivator, but it's not the action, right? Like you have to let yourself be angry, but not manipulated by that anger. Use that as a motivation to then organize and think logically about how you're gonna get your community together. Because I I get it. Look, I'm angry too. Like, I want to get up in a rampage and like show my emotions, but that's what the administration is counting on. They're counting that you're gonna get mad and then act a fool, but they're not expecting that you're gonna get mad and then get organized. And that's what it's about. You know, it's about getting organized, getting mad, but then getting organized, you know, and really stopping these people on their tracks rather than getting mad and just doing violence or being mad for being like for just being mad. Like there's no use in that. It's it's the organizing, it's uh logical thinking that gets you there.
SPEAKER_00So uh again, a special uh program that Tajano talks. Uh at the end of the program, we're gonna put a uh a poster up with how you can donate to lulac.org, how you can donate uh to uh the Lorenzo Salgado family, and how you can be become involved, volunteer, start a Lulac Council, or just get involved. Okay, so hasta entonces, hasta la victoria. Que vivo la raza.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely. We'll see you on all your favorite platforms: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook. We'll be there to continue pushing to end this corrupt system, to stop the White House and Trump and his future Trumps and other Trumps that can come along from ever coming back and taking away what the Hunnels built, which is a state, which is families. I mean, we've built everything that you see here, you know, and we don't deserve to be killed by ice. I mean, it's that simple. So we'll see you guys next time.