In an uncanny echo of the latest previous, a Mexican immigrant who had lived in Texas for 35 years and a younger Colombian father midway throughout the nation in Maine were killed days aside in shootings at the arms of immigration brokers.
While the shootings this month are nonetheless of their investigative infancy, they’re a grim callback to January and the separate killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota when every encountered Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers through the immigration crackdown within the Twin Cities.
Within per week, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, and Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, grew to become the third and fourth individuals to have been fatally wounded by federal immigration brokers this year as President Donald Trump’s sweeping deportation agenda has led to immigration enforcement crackdowns leading to not solely arrests and removals, but in addition violence and demise.
Here’s what we all know in regards to the 4 individuals killed this year by federal brokers concerned in immigration enforcement actions and different shootings through which brokers opened fireplace:
Good, a 37-year-old US citizen, was killed on January 7 when an ICE agent shot into her car in Minneapolis.
The mom of three had been taking part in demonstrations in opposition to the immigration enforcement surge dubbed Operation Metro Surge and stopped her burgundy SUV for a couple of minutes on a snowy residential Minneapolis avenue, obstructing the stream of site visitors. When Good started pulling ahead, an ICE officer standing in entrance of her car pulled his weapon and fired at least three pictures into the automobile, killing her.
Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse who handled veterans, was shot and killed on January 24 by federal immigration brokers.
Video of the encounter exhibits Pretti sought to help a girl shoved to the bottom by an immigration agent, getting pushed to the bottom himself as he and others get right into a bodily skirmish with a bunch of brokers earlier than at least two finally opened fireplace.
A federal agent was seen on video removing a handgun from Pretti’s waistband moments earlier than he was killed.
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The 52-year-old Mexican immigrant had been choosing up members of his development crew in Houston when he encountered ICE brokers throughout a site visitors cease and was fatally shot on July 7.
ICE issued a public assertion saying its officers “attempted to conduct a vehicle stop as part of a targeted enforcement operation to arrest an illegal alien” and mentioned Salgado Araujo tried to evade them. The company alleges he “rammed an ICE law enforcement vehicle, refused to follow multiple verbal commands, and weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer,” which led to an “officer firing his weapon in self-defense.”
A lawyer for 2 of the passengers within the van at the time of the taking pictures denied Salgado Araujo attempted to ram officers and disputed the officers were in peril. But no video has surfaced depicting the second of the taking pictures.
Joan Sebastian Guerrero, who was recognized by his neighbor as a 26-year-old husband and father from Colombia, was shot and killed by a federal agent on July 13 in Biddeford, Maine, whereas officers were conducting a site visitors cease, the Department of Homeland Security mentioned.
In a statement issued practically 12 hours after the incident, DHS mentioned the federal agent fired his weapon “fearing for public safety” because the sufferer “attempted to flee the scene.” The division didn’t share particulars on why the officer believed Guerrero was a public security threat.
Maine Sen. Angus King’s workplace mentioned Guerrero was “NOT the target” of the immigration operation, whereas the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition mentioned Guerrero was licensed to work within the US and had been issued a social safety quantity.
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January 8, 2026: A Border Patrol agent shot two people throughout a site visitors cease in Portland, Oregon, and officers say they were related to a Venezuelan gang. The driver, Luis David Nino-Moncada, was charged with aggravated assault of a federal officer with a lethal or harmful weapon, in line with the Department of Justice. He later pleaded responsible, in line with NCS affiliate KGW.
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January 14, 2026: Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis was shot within the leg by means of the entrance door of a Minneapolis residence by an ICE agent following his cousin. The agent was later charged with 4 counts of second-degree assault, one rely of falsely reporting a criminal offense in reference to the taking pictures. It’s one in all a number of circumstances through which the US authorities’s account of a taking pictures involving a federal immigration agent has fallen aside after later scrutiny.
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January 21, 2026: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at a Salvadoran immigrant in Los Angeles County, who officers say tried to evade arrest and who officers allege was concerned in human smuggling operation and had a prison document. A Customs and Border Protection officer was injured, DHS mentioned.
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April 7, 2026: A person was shot in California’s Central Valley following a site visitors cease through which ICE brokers fired at him as he allegedly tried to flee. Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez pleaded not responsible to 2 counts of assault on a federal officer with a lethal weapon and one rely of destruction of presidency property.
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June 15, 2026: An ICE agent fired his weapon when Eduardo Cruz Garcia allegedly tried to flee a site visitors cease in New Jersey. The driver was charged with assault and injuring a federal officer after hitting a federal agent with a van, in line with a criminal complaint.
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July 1, 2026: An ICE agent fired his weapon throughout a site visitors cease in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as they tried to arrest Clemente Lara-Hernandez. The Mexican nationwide had a prison historical past and fled after ramming into an ICE car, the company advised NCS.