Another ICE killing
“They’re not vetted, they’re not trained."
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ICE strikes again
ICE agents shot and killed another person on Monday, this time in the state of Maine.
According to reports from activists and advocates in the community, as well as people on the ground, the victim was Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old man from Colombia who was legally in the US. Agents shot him in the head, allegedly in front of his three-year-old daughter.
Residents in the small city flooded the area and downtown in protest, including to Republican Senator Susan Collins’s office.
This latest incident comes a week after another ICE killing in Houston, of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
Protesters told local media they’ve had enough.
“They’re not vetted, they’re not trained. I don’t see anything good for ICE coming out of this morning. They’ve drawn a line, and it’s gone far enough.”—a Biddeford protester
(Press Herald) (News Center Maine) (the New York Times)
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