{"id":49411,"date":"2026-07-27T12:40:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=49411"},"modified":"2026-07-27T12:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:40:03","slug":"we-will-not-forget-them-nationwide-vigils-demand-justice-for-people-killed-by-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/we-will-not-forget-them-nationwide-vigils-demand-justice-for-people-killed-by-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Will Not Forget Them\u2019: Nationwide Vigils Demand Justice for People Killed by ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Anti-ICE protesters carry cardboard coffins through downtown Los Angeles on July 25, 2026 to remember people killed by Trump administration immigration enforcers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo by Gina Ferazzi\/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protesters rallied against the Trump administration\u2019s deadly anti-immigrant crackdown in the wake of the killings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Johan Sebast\u00edan Guerrero, Juan Jairo Coronilla Dur\u00e1n, and others.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Brett Wilkins<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jul 26, 2026 (CommonDreams.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protesters gathered in cities and towns across the United States<\/a> on Saturday at vigils to remember and demand justice for people killed by US Immigration<\/a> and Customs Enforcement and other federal agents during President Donald Trump\u2019s deadly crackdown on immigrants and their defenders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The July 25 Day of Action was organized by advocacy groups and volunteers across the country, with support from the Disappeared in America project hosted by Public Citizen<\/a>, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, The Workers<\/a> Circle, Detention Watch Network, and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The vigils brought together clergy, activists, progressive advocates, and other concerned and outraged citizens, who remembered Lorenzo Salgado Araujo<\/a>, Johan Sebast\u00edan Guerrero<\/a>, Juan Jairo Coronilla Dur\u00e1n<\/a>, and the dozens of people who have died in ICE custody during Trump\u2019s second term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLorenzo Salgado Araujo was a husband, a father of three, and a small business owner who built his American dream with his own hands. Johan Sebast\u00edan Guerrero was killed in front of his partner and his toddler,\u201d LULAC CEO Juan Proa\u00f1o said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cICE has now taken the lives of immigrants and US citizens alike, and if they can kill Lorenzo and Johan, they can kill anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, vigils honored the immigrants killed by ICE, as well as Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two US citizens fatally shot by Department of Homeland Security agents in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey weren\u2019t doing anything wrong. They were trying to help their neighbors, simple as that,\u201d said<\/a> Lisa Erbes of Indivisible Twin Cities. \u201cThey were legally observing what ICE was doing, and they were both killed for it, and that could have happened to me. It could have happened to probably every single person who is here right now. Any of us could have been Renee or Alex.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This weekend marked six months since Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, was shot by US Customs and Border Protection agents in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo one has been held accountable, no apologies, not a single phone call from any governmental official, hospital personnel, or the police,\u201d Susan Pretti, Alex\u2019s mother, wrote<\/a> Saturday on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSix months of pain, a roller-coaster of trauma over and over,\u201d she added. \u201cI wonder how to move forward. Will I ever get over this loss and this pain? Will I ever be able to enjoy life again?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Chicago\u2014where Trump deployed hundreds of federal enforcers during Operation Midway Blitz\u2014at least hundreds of people gathered in Grant Park and marched down Michigan Avenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s collective trauma that impacted our communities that no one can understand unless you were here and felt the helicopters and saw the unpredictability of neighbors getting snatched off the streets,\u201d 46-year-old demonstrator Melody Rose of Rogers Park told<\/a> the Chicago Tribune. \u201cAll of us, especially those who have been directly impacted and seen what that\u2019s like, have to keep showing up and spreading the word because this isn\u2019t over and it could be us any day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

United Church of Rogers Park pastor Rev. Hannah Kardon told Chicago rallygoers: \u201cRemember the dead and demand the kind of world where we never would have lost them in the first place. We will not forget them, and we will live differently because of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los Angeles-area demonstrations included a march by hundreds of people in downtown LA, where protesters carried cardboard coffins representing lives lost to Trump\u2019s crackdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur communities will never be the same,\u201d protester Joseph Morales\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0KABC. \u201cEven though we\u2019re strong and we hold each other together, our communities are not the same, and we grieve that loss.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Los Angeles Coffin Protest #StopKillingUs<\/a> #USDemocracy<\/a> #JusticeForAll<\/a> #SomosLorenzo<\/a> #DondeEstan<\/a> #USDemocracy<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/KnqeTBRTHh<\/a><\/p>— Ruben Garcia (@goRubenRuben) July 26, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>