1. United States
2. Texas
3. Letter

On January 7, 2026, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen, Renee Nicole Good—a mother of three, poet, writer, and neighbor—was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent during an operation in Minneapolis. She was not a target of an investigation, had committed no violent crime, and was simply present in her own community when she was struck down. This tragedy is not an isolated accident. It is the logical extension of a system that treats human life as expendable when enforcement becomes unmoored from restraint, accountability, and humanity. Systems that sanction detention without meaningful due process, escalate confrontations, and normalize the use of force without transparency do not remain confined to migrants or “outsiders.” They set precedents that erode civil liberties and degrade the protections we all depend on as citizens. When agents of the state can kill a neighbor—who had just dropped her child off at school—without immediate accountability and then defend that action on shifting narratives, we are forced to confront a sobering truth: inhumane methods intended for some can quickly spread their reach to everyone. A just legal system must protect due process, proportionality, and basic human dignity for all people—immigrant or citizen alike. Anything less is not enforcement; it is a breakdown of the moral and constitutional foundations our society claims to uphold.