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By Lauren Mascarenhas, Joe Sutton, NCS
(NCS) — An individual was killed Monday in an ICE-involved taking pictures in Biddeford, Maine, in response to the state’s speaker of the home — simply days after a federal agent fatally shot a Mexican immigrant throughout a visitors cease in Houston, sparking mass protests and calls for for transparency and accountability.
“A person was killed. ICE was involved. State Police and the Department of Public Safety are now on scene to gather details and would expect the FBI to investigate as well,” Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau stated in an announcement on Facebook. “These are the details that I have at this time. I will provide further updates, as they are relayed to me.”
NCS has reached out to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security for remark.
Biddeford police instructed NCS there was a “police incident” in the realm, about 18 miles south of Portland, and stated there is no such thing as a menace to the general public at this time, however declined to supply further particulars.
Maine Democratic U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree stated she was “disturbed and angry” upon listening to the information of the taking pictures. She referred to as for an investigation into the incident, including a query directed at ICE officers: “Why are you in Maine?”
The incident comes lower than every week after a person on his solution to work in Houston was shot and killed by an ICE agent. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed throughout a visitors cease in what ICE initially described as a focused enforcement operation, although a supply later stated Salgado Araujo was not the goal of the operation.
The taking pictures has reignited requires accountability amongst ICE brokers, which reached a fever pitch earlier this yr after 37-year-old mom Renee Good and 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti have been killed by federal immigration brokers in the course of the Trump administration’s operation in Minneapolis.
The administration dubbed the same surge in immigration enforcement throughout Maine in January “Operation Catch of the Day.” The ACLU and different advocates filed a lawsuit towards federal immigration brokers for “abducting a lawful immigrant” in the course of the surge.
Some group teams and advocates that rallied towards the surge earlier this yr have already began to prepare in response to Monday’s taking pictures. The group “Maine Resists” has deliberate an emergency group rally in town at midday. The racial justice and immigrant rights group Project Relief stated it’s in contact with the sufferer’s household.
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