San Antonio Protesters Want ICE Abolished After Houston Shooting Nobody Bothered to Understand

About a hundred protesters showed up at San Antonio City Hall on Friday, and if you’re wondering whether they cared about the full story behind the Houston ICE shooting they were rallying against, let me save you the suspense. They didn’t.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation led the charge, which tells you everything you need to know before we even get to the facts. These folks weren’t there for nuance or truth. They wanted ICE gone, and they found their martyr in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, an illegal alien who authorities say tried to flee a targeted enforcement operation by running over a federal agent with his vehicle.

Let that sink in for a second. An officer conducting lawful enforcement nearly gets killed, and the response from the activist left is to create a makeshift memorial and demand the entire agency be abolished.

Corrie Rosen, a public school teacher (yes, someone entrusted with educating children), stood before the crowd and declared that it doesn’t matter if Salgado was here for 35 years or 35 days. The injustice, she insisted, doesn’t stand. But here’s what does stand: the rule of law. You know, that boring old concept that keeps civilization from devolving into chaos.

The irony is thick enough to cut with a butter knife. These protesters rail against injustice while completely ignoring the attempted murder of a federal officer just doing his job. Where’s the memorial for the agent who nearly lost his life? Where’s the outrage over someone allegedly using a vehicle as a weapon?

This isn’t about compassion or human rights. It’s about ideology winning over common sense every single time. The socialist organizers don’t actually care about Salgado as a person. They care about him as a symbol, a convenient narrative to push their broader agenda of open borders and government abolition. If they genuinely cared about immigrant welfare, they’d be advocating for legal pathways and respect for the officers tasked with enforcing laws passed by elected representatives.

Government officials confirmed that Salgado had applied for a work permit earlier this year. That application apparently included a statement about when he entered the country. Thirty five years of living here illegally, and only now seeking legal status. That’s not a feel good story about an immigrant pursuing the American dream. That’s someone who ignored our laws for decades and only bothered with paperwork when it became convenient.

The protesters chanted through bullhorns and waved their signs demanding justice. But justice for whom, exactly? Not for the American citizens who follow the rules. Not for legal immigrants who wait years and spend thousands navigating our system properly. Not for the ICE agent who went to work that day and nearly didn’t come home.

Traditional American values used to include respect for law enforcement and national sovereignty. We understood that borders mean something, that laws exist for reasons beyond oppressing people. A nation without borders isn’t a nation at all. It’s just geography with good marketing.

The left has become so committed to open borders ideology that they’ll defend anyone, under any circumstances, as long as that person entered illegally. The facts don’t matter anymore. Due process doesn’t matter. The safety of federal agents certainly doesn’t matter. What matters is the narrative, the political theater, the chance to grandstand about abolishing enforcement agencies.

Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine if every time a bank robber got shot while fleeing police, activists gathered to demand we abolish the FBI. Sounds absurd, right? Yet that’s precisely the logic on display in San Antonio.

ICE agents don’t wake up hoping to shoot people. They conduct targeted operations against individuals who’ve broken our immigration laws. Sometimes those operations go sideways when suspects decide fighting or fleeing beats facing consequences. That’s not murder. That’s the tragic result of someone making catastrophically bad choices.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation can rally all they want. They can make their posters and give their speeches. But Americans who still believe in national sovereignty and the rule of law see right through this performance. We see activists exploiting a death to advance an agenda that would fundamentally transform this country into something unrecognizable.

Protection of our borders isn’t cruelty. Enforcing immigration law isn’t injustice. And expecting people to enter our country legally isn’t asking too much. Those used to be bipartisan positions, back when sanity still had a seat at the table.