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Month: July 2026

  • ICE kills again, shooting into another moving vehicle

    Less than a week after killing Lorenzo Araujo, ICE agents have killed another man. Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a 25-year old Colombian immigrant working two jobs to support his partner and 3-year old daughter, was gunned down by ICE agents in Biddeford, ME.

    Guerrero was in the U.S. legally; like Araujo, he was not being sought by ICE agents when they encountered him. Apart from a practice — shooting into moving vehicles — that is forbidden by most police forces (and by federal agencies), there is evidence that armed ICE agents lack the training and temperament to be patrolling American city streets. But they have been goaded on by a president, his most influential senior domestic advisor, and others in the Trump administration and in MAGA media into a crusade to rid the country of immigrants — legal or not. Trump and company have demeaned and slandered Immigrants, while glorifying militarized agents acting with impunity.

    Lies come easily to these apologists of state violence. In the immediate aftermath of the Renee Good shooting, JD Vance posted on X that the agent who fired the fatal shot was protecting his own life “against a deranged leftist who tried to run him over.”

    On the same day, the White House quoted Vance saying:

    I want every ICE officer to know that their president, vice president, & the entire administration stands behind them.
    To the radical assaulting them, doxxing them, & threatening them: congratulations, we’re going to work even harder to enforce the law.

    Enforce, that is, a twisted version of the law by a regime that despises constitutional limits, the preservation of individual liberty, and a nation that is enriched by immigrants and their children.

  • ICE continues to roundup, to deport, and to kill without accoutability

    ICE agents in Houston shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo last week as he drove to work. They shot him by firing into his van, describing him as an “illegal alien” who had “weaponized his vehicle.”

    Araujo had lived and worked in the United States for 35 years, raising three sons with his wife. He ran a construction company and had no criminal record. Yes, he was undocumented. Is that grounds for being gunned down on a city street by masked federal agents?

    We have heard the “weaponized his vehicle” rationale before. If true, it might justify shooting into a car. But past experience suggests that this is a lie. “In several instances … video evidence and testimony from witnesses contradicted the agency’s initial accounts, establishing that the officers were not in danger and, in some cases, acted as the aggressors.” No immigration agents have been charged in any of the previous fatal shootings.

    The other three men in the vehicle have disputed the account given by federal authorities.

    This is the tenth person to be shot and killed by ICE and Border Patrol in Trump’s second term “and the 17th Mexican to either be fatally shot by ICE or to die in ICE detention.” The latest shooting occurred as the Trump administration has doubled immigration arrest numbers (often by making arrests at immigration check-ins, nabbing folks following the law).

    Third-country removals continue apace, while Americans who protest Trump policies are subject to threats and harassment in violation of the First Amendment.

    There is no place for this in a free country. Judge for yourself.

    Meanwhile, the number of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital has surged and the Pentagon announced that the troops would remain through the 2029 inauguration.

    This ain’t the America most of us grew up with. Day by day, city by city, a federal occupying army is put into place, as our country creeps closer to being a police state at the hands of Donald Trump.