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For the second<\/span> time in a week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have shot a man dead. Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old father from Colombia, was driving slowly in Biddeford, Maine, when an agent shot into his vehicle.<\/p>\n As is now par for the course, ICE representatives are already lying about the incident. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin reportedly at first told Maine Sen. Angus King that the driver had attempted to use his car as a weapon<\/a> \u2014 the same lie used to justify shooting 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo dead just one week ago in Houston and Renee Good<\/a> months before that. ICE has made the same bogus claim<\/a> in a number of recorded incidents involving agents shooting into moving cars.<\/p>\n In a contradictory but equally baseless statement, the Department of Homeland Security claimed on X that the \u201cvehicle attempted to flee the scene and, fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon.\u201d An eyewitness told reporters that before the victim died, his face covered in blood, he could be heard saying, \u201cI tried to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n Both shootings highlight the agency\u2019s pattern of violent racial profiling and reckless indifference to human life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n Like Araujo in Texas last week, Guerrero had not been the target of ICE operations. This is not to say that either death would be any more justified had ICE been seeking the men for arrest; no immigration violation should carry a death sentence<\/a>. But both shootings highlight the agency\u2019s pattern of violent racial profiling<\/a> and reckless indifference<\/a> to human life<\/a>.<\/p>\n Thousands protested in Houston following Araujo\u2019s killing. Immediately after news spread of the Maine shooting, protesters took to the streets and rushed<\/a> to Republican Sen. Susan Collins\u2019s Biddeford office<\/a>. Collins cast a deciding vote in the Senate last month to deliver a staggering $70 billion in funding over three years to ICE and Border Patrol. \u201cVote her out,\u201d the demonstrators chanted.<\/p>\n Every elected official who is complicit in this border regime should be ousted. It should be a minimum requirement for Democrats running for Congress that they commit to abolishing ICE<\/a>. Wherever there is legislative, municipal, city, or local power to do so, political leaders must combat ICE with more than words or face organized pressure campaigns and removal.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Following the high-profile ICE killings of Good and Alex Pretti<\/a>, two Minnesotans, in January, people took to the streets nationwide. Minneapolis residents responded<\/a> with work stoppages, blockades, and powerful<\/a> community resistance<\/a>. The need to escalate organized resistance to ICE nationwide is again all too clear. Community<\/a> mutual aid networks<\/a>, neighborhood defenses, mass strikes<\/a>, and major disruptive protests are as necessary as ever. But all such actions face the challenge of sustainability when opposing President Donald Trump\u2019s endlessly resourced deportation machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n Guerrero\u2019s killing in Maine is the eighth fatal ICE shooting in Trump\u2019s second term, according to The Trace<\/a>. At least fifty-two people have died in ICE custody over that same period, which Human Rights Watch called<\/a> a \u201csoaring mortality rate.\u201d Meanwhile, ICE is further scaling up its quotidian activities to serve Trump\u2019s project of ethnic cleansing: In just five days at the end of June, ICE agents quietly made a reported<\/a> 10,000 arrests.<\/p>\n The vile spectacle<\/a> of city-based ICE surges, which were the agency\u2019s calling card under former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, have given way to dispersed but constant round-ups. The terror<\/a> for immigrant communities is no less acute; the difficulty when it comes to fighting back has only sharpened. It is high time that anti-ICE action receives more robust political and institutional support.<\/p>\n It is not sufficient<\/a>, for example, for New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani to assert<\/a> that the New York Police Department does not coordinate with ICE for deportation operations if the NYPD is dispatched to clear streets for ICE vehicles to travel through disruption-free. It is not enough<\/a> to have a court order in place barring ICE from making arrests at New York City immigration courts if that order isn\u2019t enforced<\/a>. \u201cSanctuary city<\/a>\u201d has to be a label with meaning<\/a> beyond Trump using it as a slur<\/a> against blue cities. It\u2019s a promise, one that must also entail taking action against the racist municipal policing under which immigrants suffer and antifascist organizing is targeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n Houston Mayor John Whitmire vowed<\/a> last week to \u201cpursue an independent and transparent\u201d local investigation into the ICE shooting in his city. He also said that the federal government has taken control of the evidence, making such an investigation<\/a> extremely difficult. The idea that the federal government will hold its jackbooted thugs accountable is, of course, utterly laughable<\/a>.<\/p>\n But so, too, is the idea that an investigation by Houston or Texas law enforcement will deliver justice to Araujo\u2019s loved ones, let alone the millions of people whose lives are being destroyed by the American deportation machine. An independent investigation into ICE killings is not even the floor, it\u2019s the basement.<\/p>\n As the federal government expands extremist efforts to criminalize<\/a> and imprison<\/a> antifascist activists and ICE watchers as terrorists<\/a>, political leaders \u2014 especially those who claim to represent so-called sanctuary cities \u2014 must step up to support and protect<\/a> targeted organizers. It is a disgrace, albeit not a surprise, that Democratic leaders have not spoken out against the unprecedented<\/a>, draconian sentences<\/a> \u2014 ranging from 30<\/a> to 100 years in federal prison \u2014 handed down to eight people in Texas over an ICE detention center protest.<\/p>\n The struggle against Trump\u2019s border regime will continue to be led by immigrant communities and their neighbors. The front-line work on the neighborhood level remains the most crucial \u2014 from street to street, workplace to workplace, building to building \u2014 and in collective efforts<\/a> against detention centers<\/a> and in the direct surveillance of and confrontation with ICE agents on the ground. No work of legislation or policy can supplant that. But as the stakes for taking part in anti-ICE work heighten, as immigrant round-ups grow and the death counts climb, it\u2019s high time that Democrats join the work of abolishing ICE with everything at their disposal \u2014 or be replaced.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n #ICE #Arrests #Quiet #Deadly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anti-ICE protesters attend a v… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[246],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n