Immigrant Detention Is Not New

America has a long history of demonizing and confining groups of people

On July 7, an ICE agent killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a construction worker who had lived in Houston for thirty-five years and raised three US-citizen sons. That morning, he was driving to work when ICE agents began pursuing his van because they believed two people they were seeking were inside. They were wrong. When Salgado Araujo stopped, an agent fi…