Immigrant rights advocates and community members gathered at Lake Eola Park in downtown Orlando last Friday night for a vigil to mourn the lives of those who have died at the hands of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to demand justice for them and their families.
At least 10 people have been fatally shot by federal immigration enforcement agents during President Donald Trump’s second presidential term, with recent deadly assaults taking the lives of 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo — a Mexican national, father and construction worker living in Texas — and 25-year-old Colombian father and food delivery driver Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero of Maine.
Orlando 50501, a local chapter of a national organization that rose up last year in opposition to the Trump administration, organized Friday night’s vigil in honor of Lorenzo and Joan. Orlando State Rep. Anna Eskamani, a progressive Democrat, and State Rep. Angie Nixon — a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate this year — attended the vigil, held at the intersection of Robinson Street and Eola Drive.
According to a June report from Human Rights Watch, at least 52 people have died in ICE custody in the United States from Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025, through June 4, 2026. The brutality of ICE agents’ detention tactics and response to opposition gained national attention earlier this year following the killings of U.S. citizens Alex Pretti — a Veterans Affairs nurse — and poet Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this year.
