1. United States
2. Texas
3. Letter

To Whom It May Concern, Today, a woman is dead after an ICE shooting. That fact alone should stop everything. This was not war. This was not a battlefield. This was federal agents enforcing immigration policy—civil law—yet someone ended the day in a body bag. That is indefensible. ICE has become an agency that operates with alarming aggression and near-total immunity from consequences. Every time lethal force is used, the same script follows: vague statements, internal reviews, and calls for patience while accountability quietly evaporates. Meanwhile, families bury their loved ones. If your policies, rhetoric, or tolerance for escalation created the conditions where an agent felt justified pulling the trigger, then this death belongs to you as much as it does to the person who fired the weapon. Law and order means nothing if federal agents are allowed to kill civilians and hide behind bureaucratic shields. There must be an immediate, independent investigation. The public deserves full transparency. And if wrongdoing occurred—as it so often does—there must be firings, prosecutions, and policy reversals. Anything less is a cover-up. Do not insult the public with silence. Do not insult this woman’s life with excuses. Do not insult democracy by pretending this is normal. It is not.