An Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Houston led to the shooting death of a Mexican illegal alien who allegedly tried to run over officers.

Officers were performing a traffic stop as part of a “targeted enforcement operation to arrest an illegal alien” just before 7 a.m. at the intersection of Canal Street and Wayside Drive, according to an ICE spokesperson.

‘All available footage, communications, and other evidence should be preserved and reviewed as part of a full and impartial investigation.’

Rather than pull over, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo reportedly tried to escape in his vehicle and rammed into an ICE vehicle.

ICE said he then “weaponized” his vehicle and tried to run over an officer, who fired in self-defense.

Araujo was struck in the stomach and transported to a hospital, where he was later declared dead.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into the incident, according to ICE, but the FBI said it was investigating the potential assault on a federal officer, not the man’s death.

Video reportedly from the incident shows Araujo groaning on the ground near a white van while officers attend to him.

Democratic Rep. Sylvia Garcia of Texas issued a statement about the incident on social media.

“ICE has released an initial account, but the facts must be independently and thoroughly investigated, including the circumstances that led to the use of deadly force,” she wrote.

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“All available footage, communications, and other evidence should be preserved and reviewed as part of a full and impartial investigation,” she added. “The victim’s family, my constituents, and the entire community deserve a complete and transparent accounting of what happened.”

Houston City Council Member Alejandra Salinas also called for a “thorough and impartial investigation” into the circumstances of the lethal shooting.

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One company believes biology should not limit who should be able to conceive children.

That same company says it has now made strides to turn that belief into a reality.

‘Yeah, I’m gay, and it’s something that got me so personally interested.’

Fertility company Conception announced last week that it accomplished what was, until recently, only possible with mice: creating early human egg cells.

“Biology limits who can have children and when,” Conception says on its website. “Egg supply declines and medical barriers can limit fertility entirely, as birthrates fall across the globe.”

To counteract this, Conception says, it has finally “generated the first early human eggs derived from stem cells.”

CEO Matt Krisiloff said that after a simple blood draw, his company converted blood cells into stem cells, and from there, “coaxed” those stem cells into becoming “miniature human ovaries containing the early eggs.”

Krisiloff has not hidden his intentions; in fact, he made them crystal clear during a 2023 interview with NPR. Inside the company profile, Krisiloff expressed that he is personally invested in being able to create babies for gay couples.

“My personal biggest interest in it is that it could allow same-sex couples to be able to have biological children together as well,” the CEO said. “Yeah, I’m gay, and it’s something that got me so personally interested in this in the first place.”

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Conception calls its technology “in-vitro gametogenesis” and claims it is a “profound advance” in reproductive technology.

The recent announcement discusses the process, which comes from successful trials of making viable eggs from stem cells in mice back in 2016. Conception’s collaborative scientist, Katsuhiko Hayashi, reportedly demonstrated that skin cells in mice can be turned into stems cells capable of becoming any type of cell in the body, which in turn were used to create usable eggs.

“These eggs produced healthy [mouse] pups that lived normal lifespans and reproduced naturally, having healthy pups of their own,” Conception wrote.

While the process has been far easier to achieve in mice than in larger animals, the company said, the technology is still “worth pursuing” in humans.

No public information is available on what other animals Conception has tested on.

The company’s financial backing is available, though, and this includes investments from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Skype founder Jaan Tallinn, and Recursion Pharmaceuticals co-founder Blake Borgeson, who all contributed to a $20 million round in previous years.

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Conception’s co-founders, Pablo Hurtado Gonzalez and Bianka Seres, also shared their views on the project. Hurtado Gonzalez said, “There is something intrinsic, sharing a life that is half me and half my husband.”

“I don’t have the capacity right now, and I am devoting my life to try to change that,” Hurtado Gonzalez added.

Seres also said the project is likely to be a “pretty big” deal around the world.

“And for individuals, I think it’s going to be life-changing,” she contributed.

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A Democratic congressman in California reiterated his call to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a record high number of arrests was reported.

Border czar Tom Homan appeared on Fox News and lauded the historic number of arrests over the five-day period while talking about the effort to strip commercial licenses from illegal aliens.

Federal officials had been able to rescind over 28,000 commercial licenses that were being held by illegal aliens.

“In the last five days, ICE has arrested over 10,000 illegal aliens, which is a record for the agency,” Homan said to Fox host Dana Perino. “So we’re hitting on all cylinders. There’s just a lot of these people to find, but we are out there every day looking for them.”

He suggested that officials in states like New York were sheltering illegal aliens from these federal investigations.

“The problem is, we’re working very well with red states; in blue states it’s still a struggle, right? Places like New York, I mean, ICE and CBP can’t even get access to the DMV database!”

He added that federal officials had been able to rescind over 28,000 commercial licenses that were being held by illegal aliens since May 1.

In response, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) posted a statement on the X social media platform calling for ICE to be replaced.

“We cannot ignore their continued abuse and violation of human rights. It’s time to abolish ICE and replace it,” Khanna wrote in the post.

“These people being detained are being denied basic human rights,” Khanna said in a video attached to the post.

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“I was at the California detention center. I saw someone with blood in his urine who was denied medical care,” he continued. “I saw rocks in the food. I saw people shivering because they didn’t have clothes. We need to stop funding ICE that’s violating human rights.”

Homan went on in the Fox interview to accuse sanctuary mayors and state governors of “normalizing” illegal immigration by allowing illegal aliens to have driver’s licenses.

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Houston Police last week said they arrested a 34-year-old male after investigating multiple cases of disabled and homeless people who’d been shot with high-powered, motorized water guns.

Police said Christopher Cayce — after taunting his victims and posting videos of the incidents on social media — was charged with assault with bodily injury.

‘In my eyes this was harmless fun that we all enjoy at one point of life.’

“I’m totally a thousand percent sorry for this, and that’s not just saying this because I’m caught,” Cayce told KTRK-TV Friday.

Cayce — a “self-described comedian,” according to the station — since last summer had been recording videos of himself driving around the Houston area and ambushing people with water guns.

But he was arrested Thursday and charged with two counts of assault for spraying two men on June 4, KTRK said.

Many of his targets appeared to be homeless, and police said some of his victims were disabled, the station reported.

A KTRK reporter asked Cayce why he targeted “some of the city’s most vulnerable,” and he replied, “In my videos, I don’t just shoot homeless people.”

The station said that in one video he lures a woman to his car with money before spraying her in the face, and in another video he throws food at a man before shooting him with a water gun.

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According to the Houston Chronicle, Cayce also took to Facebook to defend himself.

“I REALLY LOVE THESE PEOPLE I’M NOT A BAD PERSON,” he wrote Saturday alongside a video showing him handing food to people from the back of a pickup truck, the paper said, adding that Cayce’s post tagged the Houston Police Department.

“I feed these people,” Cayce told KTRK. “I gave these people $500 worth of clothes. I don’t post all my positive stuff ’cause it don’t get views. My channel algorithm was me shooting people with water guns.”

The Chronicle said Cayce in another post apologized for his “childish activities” but maintained he never intended to hurt anyone.

“For all the feelings I hurt I do sincerely apologize for my actions,” he wrote, the paper said. “In my eyes this was harmless fun that we all enjoy at one point of life.”

Cayce also argued that many of those condemning him online ignore the homeless in everyday life, the Chronicle said.

In the KTRK interview, Cayce held up a cross and said, “I just put this in front of the door. I walk and pray every day. Every time I go out, I pray before I go and shoot these people because I really don’t want to hurt nobody.”

“Believe it or not I keep God first,” Cayce also wrote on Facebook, the Chronicle said.

KTRK also pointed out that in one post, Cayce refers to his targets as “zombies,” but he told the station that “I’m not calling them zombies because that’s what they are. It’s all commentary for the content. It’s not what I really, truly mean. I love everybody genuinely.”

Cayce is set to appear in court Thursday, KTRK reported, and he also said he’s done with his water-gun exploits.

“They took all my water guns,” he added to the station. “You can go buy more easily, but I told them I’m done with it. I’m not gonna shoot nobody no more.”

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As a growing number of democratic socialists win elections and progressive policies gain traction nationwide, BlazeTV host Pat Gray is incredibly concerned about the left’s plans for America’s future.

“They are doing their damnedest to ruin this country — just bring it completely down, because … it can’t be brought down from without. So they’re hell-bent on doing it from within,” he says.

Executive producer Keith Malinak agrees, pointing out that the new Equality Act the left is pushing is essentially the same thing as the Civil Rights Act.

“It will take the Civil Rights Act and say, ‘Hey, guess what, trans people get all those rights, too. And you have no choice,’” Malinak explains.

“They’ve got their own problems in the party because they’re being taken over by communists and they don’t even care,” Gray chimes in.

“In fact, some of them are in love with it,” he says, explaining that radical democratic socialists have been winning elections across the country.

“We had a 29-year-old Ethiopian-born socialist in Colorado who just defeated a 30-year congresswoman. She’s been elected 15 times, and now a 29-year-old Ethiopian who’s a socialist just beat her,” he explains, pointing out that this particular congresswoman, Melat Kiros, has claimed America deserved 9/11.

Kiros also “wants all illegals who are here to just be granted immunity and amnesty and citizenship.”

“And she wants to abolish ICE. And she was elected,” Gray says.

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A Democrat who ran for governor in Florida a few years ago is facing criminal allegations once again, this time in Alabama.

Andrew Demetric Gillum was pulled over for erratic driving and found to be in possession of methamphetamines and other drug paraphernalia, according to the Daphne Police Department.

A probable cause search of the car … allegedly led to the seizure of three packages of methamphetamines.

Gillum was the Democratic candidate for Florida governor in 2018, when he narrowly lost to Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) by just 33,000 votes, less than 1% of the vote.

On Thursday, Gillum was handcuffed and booked into the Daphne City Jail in Alabama.

Police claimed the 46-year-old was pulled over on U.S. Highway 98 near North Main Street at about 10:45 p.m. before an officer noticed a glass pipe on the center console.

That prompted a probable cause search of the car that allegedly led to the seizure of three packages of methamphetamines as well as the discovery of several rolled marijuana cigarettes.

Gillum was charged with one count of possession of dangerous drugs, possession of marijuana, and drug paraphernalia possession, according to jail records.

He was transferred from the city jail to the Baldwin County Correctional Facility in Alabama.

Gillum had a previous brush with the law involving methamphetamine allegations when he was found to be so inebriated at the 2020 scene of an overdose that police were unable to communicate with him.

“Inside of the hotel room, officers observed in plain sight three small clear plastic baggies containing suspected crystal meth on both the bed and floor of the hotel room,” a police incident report stated.

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He left the scene and later claimed in a statement that he had gone to a wedding celebration and had too much to drink. He also denied partaking in methamphetamines.

The man who had overdosed in the hotel room identified himself as an escort online. Gillum revealed that he identified as bisexual after the incident.

Gillum later said that he cried every day since the incident, where a photo showed him naked on the floor of the hotel.

“That was not anything more than a person being at their most vulnerable state,” he said. “Unconscious, having given no consent and someone decided to use a moment where I was literally laying in my own vomit.”

Gillum was also charged with nearly two dozen counts of wire fraud in 2022 but was acquitted of all charges.

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