{"id":930,"date":"2026-07-14T20:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=930"},"modified":"2026-07-14T20:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:34:13","slug":"ice-killings-in-maine-and-houston-lead-to-minor-policy-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"ICE Killings in Maine and Houston Lead to Minor Policy Change"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tIn the video<\/a>, Joan Sebastian Guerrero\u2019s car drives in a slow circle. It moves at a creep, barely faster than a person\u2019s walking pace. An ICE<\/a> officer clings to the door handle, alongside the vehicle. Shortly after, Guerrero was dead, the second person killed by ICE during a botched raid in less than a week.<\/p>\n

\n\tGuerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian national who immigrant rights groups say was legally authorized to live and work in the U.S., was killed Monday morning by ICE officers in Biddeford, Maine. Six days earlier, ICE agents shot and killed Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas, in a similar vehicle-involved incident. Unlike many of the agency\u2019s past killings, Araujo and Guerrero\u2019s deaths appear to have spurred immediate policy changes. On Tuesday, the Trump administration ordered ICE to cease most vehicle stops during their operations, a minor concession that does nothing to change the underlying issues driving the agency\u2019s deadly, nationwide immigration<\/a> crackdown since Donald Trump retook office.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Guerrero\u2019s case, for instance, ICE agents were allowed to stake out the home of an immigrant who was only suspected of entering the country illegally, and then force a confrontation with a then-unidentified person leaving the property in a vehicle. In a statement<\/a> to some members of Congress, ICE claimed that Guerrero \u201cweaponized his vehicle toward law enforcement,\u201d but did not confirm that Guerrero was actually the intended target of the investigation. In a statement<\/a> Monday evening, DHS made no mention of any weaponization, only noting that the vehicle \u201cattempted to flee the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Araujo\u2019s case, the deceased was not the target of ICE\u2019s operation \u2014 and agents still killed him, giving a similar excuse about his operation of his vehicle. DHS said in a statement<\/a> that he attempted to \u201crun over\u201d an officer, a claim the three men in the car with Araunjo have denied.\u00a0 This is a trend: Renee Good was killed in her car earlier this year in Minneapolis in a similarly haphazard stop, with the Trump administration claiming Good had weaponized her vehicle despite video evidence indicating she was trying to evade the officer. All told, ICE has shot at least <\/em>21 people<\/a> since last March.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tRep. Jared Golden, one of Maine\u2019s two congressmen, said that he had spoken to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and confirmed<\/a> that the officers involved were not wearing body cameras, a policy that was funded in Trump\u2019s April immigration bill but has yet to be widely applied across the agency. Golden, a Democrat, previously said that he supported<\/a> targeted ICE operations in his district. (Golden\u2019s office did not immediately respond to an interview request from Rolling Stone<\/em>.) Thus far, the only videos that have surfaced or been released are of the aftermath of the Guerrero shooting and other clips of officers dragging his body from the car.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPeople are extremely angry and upset,\u201d Rep. Chellie Pingree \u2014 Maine\u2019s other representative,\u00a0 who represents the city Guerrero was shot in \u2014 told The<\/em> New York Times<\/em>,<\/a> \u201cNo one should fear they\u2019re going to be shot when they\u2019re just heading out to work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tInformation about Guerrero\u2019s killing is still sparse. He was first identified in a statement by Maine Senator Angus King, but has not been identified by ICE. King first said that Guerrero was the target of ICE\u2019s warrant, but then recanted and said that Guerrero was \u201cNOT\u201d the target<\/a> of the warrant. Two immigrant rights organizations, Presente! and the Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition, have said Guerrero was issued a social security number and was authorized to work in the U.S.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhat we do know is how ICE has responded to past incidents of this matter: with a stone wall of defiance. Maine\u2019s various politicians are calling for some version of a \u201cfull investigation\u201d (Sen. Susan Collins) that will \u201cdetermine the facts\u201d (Gov. Janet Mills). The investigation is currently being run by the DHS. In the past, such investigations have gone nowhere. The officers who killed Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis have yet to be charged. State prosecutors are working<\/a> on several cases pertaining to those killings, but have faced stalling and vague obstruction from federal agencies for months.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s clear that there is only one person who can force ICE to heel: Donald Trump. ICE operates with impunity. When it gets too far out of line, the big man slaps it down \u2014 just a little to appease just enough of his critics that he can let out the leash again a short time later. When he does, people die.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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