James Talarico Laments Illegal Alien Who Tried to Run Over ICE Agents, but Has No Time for Angel Families

James Talarico wants Texans to know he's grieving for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the illegal alien shot dead after he tried to run over ICE agents with his car. That's his prerogative. Grief isn't rationed. But it's worth noticing what doesn't get the same treatment from him: the families who buried loved ones killed by people who never should have been in this country in the first place. Those names don't show up in his statements. Those families don't get a moment of his public sorrow.

This isn't really about one candidate's feelings. It's about where the sympathy reflex automatically points. A man drives a vehicle at federal agents doing their jobs, gets stopped, and within hours he's the subject of tributes from a sitting senator's fellow travelers and a Senate candidate trying to out-empathize them. Meanwhile the agents who had to make a split-second decision to protect themselves and each other get nothing. No acknowledgment that they were being attacked. No credit for the fact that they went home to their families that night.

Talarico is running statewide in Texas, a border state where actual immigration enforcement isn't an abstraction, it's a daily reality for law enforcement and ranchers and border towns. If his instinct in a moment like this is to eulogize the man who tried to run down federal officers rather than say a word about the officers themselves, that tells voters something real about his priorities. Not what he says in a press release about "principles," just what he actually chose to talk about and what he chose to leave out.

Angel families have been asking for basic recognition for years, and mostly they get silence from people like Talarico. You don't get to skip the victims of illegal immigration and then perform grief for someone who tried to kill a federal agent. Pick one lane. Texas will notice which one he picked.