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Read more ICE Temporarily Pauses Traffic Stops After Fatal Shootings in Texas, Maine<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot to death yet another immigrant in his car \u2014 a 26-year-old father living in Biddeford, Maine, who was originally from Colombia.<\/p>\n

Neighbors reported that the victim, whom they identified as Joan Sebastian Guerrero, is the father of a young daughter and was authorized to work in the U.S. While the Department of Homeland Security(DHS)reportedly initially claimed that Guerrero had \u201cweaponized his vehicle,\u201d it has since shifted its narrative to claim that an ICE officer shot Guerrero as his \u201cvehicle attempted to flee.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guerrero\u2019s killing by ICE in broad daylight on July 13 is the second in a week. In Texas, Houstonians are still reeling from Lorenzo Salgado Araujo\u2019s death at the hands of ICE officers.<\/p>\n

On July 7, Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican construction worker, became the 21st<\/sup> person whom ICE shot since Donald Trump took office last year. Over the same period of time, Salgado Araujo was the fifth person whom ICE killed after agents shot into the victim\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n

ICE officers claimed that they shot Salgado Araujo after he tried to ram them with his work van. The officers did not wear any body cameras to document the encounter, and Salgado Araujo\u2019s colleagues dispute ICE\u2019s account. Jose Trinidad Rojas told The Washington Post<\/em>, \u201cthere were no officers in front or behind the vehicle. They were on the sides.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, Salgado Araujo had stopped the van before the officers fired their weapons into it. One of the ICE officers shot Salgado Araujo from the passenger side of the van, hitting him in the abdomen. They then pulled him out of his van onto the street. Salgado Araujo, in a scene that is becoming entirely too familiar in the age of social media, can be heard in a video crying out for help.<\/p>\n

Joan Sebastian Guerrero\u2019s and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo\u2019s killings exemplify how the Trump administration\u2019s deportation machine thrives on racism, dehumanization, violence, and cruelty. While the president\u2019s bigoted comments about Mexicans, Haitians, Somalis, and other groups of migrants often garner headlines, it\u2019s important to recognize the role of the Supreme Court\u2019s 2025 decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo<\/em> in facilitating Guerrero\u2019s and Salgado Arajuo\u2019s deaths, as the ruling institutionalized racial profiling in immigration enforcement. Soon after their encounter, numerous media sources reported Salgado Araujo was not the intended target of ICE\u2019s operation. Similarly, the Portland Press Herald<\/em> reported that a top ICE official told Maine Sen. Angus King that Guerrero also lost his life to a case of mistaken identity. Guerrero and Salgado Araujo, who both just happened to \u201cfit the description\u201d of other migrants, might still be alive if it were not for ICE profiling them.<\/p>\n

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Guerrero\u2019s and Salgado Araujo\u2019s killings this July follow reports of ICE apprehending 10,000 people in the last five days of June. This exorbitant number of arrests marks the DHS\u2019s shift from engineering dramatic encounters with migrants to a quieter strategy of arresting, detaining, and disappearing as many undocumented folks as possible. DHS and ICE would rather we not know about workers like Salgado Araujo and the others who have been disappeared into the U.S. prisons. This was heartbreakingly evident in Salgado Araujo\u2019s killing. In a final act of dehumanization, the ICE officers then stripped him of any identifying information before he was transported to the hospital. Salgado Araujo later succumbed to his injuries while at the hospital, not as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, but as \u201cJohn Doe.\u201d Due to ICE\u2019s actions, Ronaldo Salgado, Salgado Araujo\u2019s eldest son, said he could not get confirmation of Salgado Araujo\u2019s medical status until he heard from a news report that his father had died.<\/p>\n

ICE\u2019s killings of Guerrero and Salgado Araujo also share the cruelty used in the fatal shooting of Ren\u00e9e Good in Minneapolis. ICE officers also claimed that Good tried to \u201cweaponize\u201d her car against them, justifying their use of lethal force. \u201cWeaponizing\u201d one\u2019s vehicle seems to be the government\u2019s go-to excuse for lethal force. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin reportedly used the same terminology to justify ICE fatally shooting Guerrero. Yet, it\u2019s the ICE officers who are turning people\u2019s vehicles into caskets.<\/p>\n

The day after ICE officers killed Salgado Araujo, Ronaldo Salgado gave a statement that resembles many that have been made over the last decade and a half after police killings. Anticipating an ICE cover-up, his son, consumed by grief, called for an independent investigation. Ronaldo Salgado engaged in public testimony \u2014 a tactic that many families of those who perish from state violence practice to thwart the state\u2019s (and media\u2019s) narrative of \u201cjustified\u201d force.<\/p>\n

Salgado told his father\u2019s story to humanize him. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo lived and worked in the U.S. for more than three decades. And, according to his son, Salgado Araujo\u2019s life revolved around his family and his work in construction. Salgado Araujo had embarked on the process of trying to obtain a work permit. He built his own house with the help of his colleagues. By his son\u2019s account, Salgado Araujo preferred to live an ordinary life. \u201cYou could find him every evening after work, resting on his porch, listening to music, petting his dog,\u201d Ronaldo Salgado said at a press conference.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, humanizing the victims of state violence and pointing out the flagrant racism of its officials will not stop the deportation machine\u2019s attempts to whiten the U.S. While Salgado\u2019s testimony reinforces the illegitimacy of ICE, other state institutions like Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and other administration officials who lie to stir up nativism, we need a broad-based movement against state violence to halt this administration\u2019s attempts to use ICE, CPB, and the military to serve white supremacist ends.<\/p>\n

Houstonians have joined this fight. Ronaldo Salgado and others held a vigil for Salgado Araujo at Houston\u2019s Service Employees International Union\u2019s (SEIU) office. Hundreds assembled at city hall to demand more information about his death and accountability for ICE.<\/p>\n

While undocumented migrants are the primary targets of the state, the killings of Ren\u00e9e Good and Alex Pretti, and the calls from Trump\u2019s allies to deploy ICE at polling stations during the midterms, illustrate how this anti-immigrant crusade ultimately threatens everyone. The resistance to ICE and CBP in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Newark show us what must be done to halt the machine.<\/p>\n

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Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a father of a young daughter in Biddeford, Maine, is the second man ICE has killed in six days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"\nICE Keeps Killing Immigrants in Cars It Claims Were \u201cWeaponized\u201d Against Agents - Smart Moving Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=971\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ICE Keeps Killing Immigrants in Cars It Claims Were \u201cWeaponized\u201d Against Agents - 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