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.