An ICE agent fatally shot a man in Houston on Tuesday morning after the man tried to run him over during a vehicle stop. According to the agency, federal agents were conducting a targeted enforcement operation when Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, tried to evade arrest. The agency says Salgado Araujo attempted to ram an ICE vehicle, refused multiple verbal commands, and then tried to run over an agent, who fired his weapon in self-defense.
Naturally, the left treated the story as another opportunity to smear President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement agenda, just as it has after every enforcement-related shooting over the past year and a half. The facts didn't matter. They never do.
On Tuesday's episode of The Five, Jesse Watters wasn't having it, and his leftist co-host Jessica Tarlov learned that the hard way.
"All right, so the bullet holes are right through the front windshield," Watters observed. "So this wasn't a side shot. The car was coming at the officer, we think, and they'll do a review. And if he's, you know, guilty of something negligent, then he'll face justice. Or if the person drove at him and he was defending his life, then that's it."
When Watters asked why Salgado Araujo was in the country in the first place, Tarlov offered up the best defense she could muster. "He's working," she said.
Oh, so that makes it okay?
"He shouldn't be here, Jessica," Watters fired back. He noted that Salgado Araujo wasn't even the target of the operation. "And so, if they say pull over, pull over," he said. "Now, this investigation will be over, but we have to grow up. Can we grow up? I mean, there's going to be fatalities in law enforcement situations, especially when there's foreign fugitives who are resisting and running away."
Then Watters compared Trump's record to Joe Biden's. "Biden didn't even try. Biden and the Democrats chose to let millions of migrants in here. And then they chose not to deport them."
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"You said they should be able to break into the country and stay until they break a law," he said. "And then they can get deported. Then we don't have a border. That's just an invitation for Latin America to break into the country. And we have to wait for them to commit crimes? That's not a policy. That's insanity."
The reality is even worse than that, because when illegal aliens do commit crimes, Democrat-run sanctuary states shield them from the consequences. "So they say they want to get the criminals out," Watters said. "And then when we try to get the criminals out, they protect them." He even brought up the illegal alien child rapist in Minnesota who received a pardon from Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.). "Got pardoned by Tampon? I mean, what the hell? So he wouldn't get deported?"
I said it before, and I’ll say it again: Trump deports the worst of the worst; Democrats pardon them.
Watters wrapped up by explaining what's really driving all of this. "Why, all of a sudden, we bring in all this foreign-born population, [and] Democrats are all of a sudden competitive?" he asked. "They just imported everybody that lived outside of the country into the country, and now it's closer. That's why they want them here, no matter if they commit crimes or not."
"We can't work with these people" @JesseBWatters breaks down why Dems can't be reckoned with when it comes to ICE reform pic.twitter.com/QEViY81IUv
— The Five (@TheFive) July 14, 2026
The Democrat Party's position on immigration collapses the moment anyone examines it. Its leaders claim they only want criminals deported, but then they protect the criminals. They claim they support law enforcement, then vilify the agents doing the enforcing. Tarlov had no answer for any of it.
Because there isn't one.
Editor’s Note: ICE and CBP continue to put themselves in harm's way in order to protect America’s sovereignty and to keep our streets safe.
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