Houston neighbors started seeing more ICE agents around. Then came a fatal shooting.
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He said he has recently seen ICE agents at the nearby gas stations and the Mexican grocery store.

The neighbors interviewed by NPR all said they don't expect to see fewer ICE agents in the city after the shooting.

Esmeralda Ledezma with the Houston-based immigrant-rights group Woori Juntos, says her group has seen reports of ICE arrests in the days following the shooting.

"Maybe they're not going to the grocery store and like locking everyone in," Ledezma said. "But I think we're seeing more targeted attempts to get people, going to their houses, going to their places of work, and that creates less attention on it to kind of fly more under the radar and not scare people out of going outside."

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