Washington, July 14 -- Congressman Joaquin Castro issued the following press release:

Today, Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20) joined the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) to speak out against ICE's brutality and the killings of 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas, and of 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine.

Remarks as delivered below:

I'm Joaquin Castro, and proud to represent San Antonio, Texas, here in the U.S. Congress. And want to say thank you to my colleagues in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, most especially Representative Silvia Garcia, who, after the shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, did so much work in the community to try to start to heal the community, but also to get answers to w...