"I Voted" stickers become tributes at ICE memorials
Summary
Voters in Minneapolis and Houston have left “I Voted” stickers and messages at memorials for people killed by federal immigration agents. The memorials include those of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston; a poll cited in the article found that many Latino voters disapprove of the administration’s immigration enforcement.Key Facts
- Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, and Renee Good, a writer and mother, were killed by federal agents in Minneapolis in January, according to the article.
- Voters have placed “I Voted” stickers at memorials for Pretti and Good.
- Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a construction worker and father, was fatally shot by ICE agents in Houston in July, according to the article.
- Voters left stickers and handwritten messages at Araujo’s memorial, including “I voted for you” and “Por usted,” which means “for you” in Spanish.
- Araujo’s oldest son, Ronaldo Salgado, placed a sticker on the memorial during the first week of early voting; hundreds of others followed, the article reports.
- In an October NBC News/Telemundo poll, 67% of Latino voters said Trump’s immigration enforcement had gone too far.
- The same poll found that 31% of Latino voters said they or someone close to them now carried ID because of ICE concerns, and 27% said they knew someone who had been detained or deported.
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