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An Open Letter

To: Rep. Davids, Sen. Moran, Sen. Marshall

From: A verified voter in Overland Park, KS

July 16

In the last week, ICE agents shot and killed two more innocent people in broad daylight. In both cases, the people they shot and killed weren't even the people they were looking for. In both cases, they shot and killed people who were on their way to work in front of their families. In Houston last week, Lorenzo Salgado Arejo, a construction worker who has lived in the United States for 35 years was killed. He was a husband with three children, no criminal record. He was driving to work with the lunch that his wife had packed for him and his brother riding in the passenger seat. ICE agents rammed his vehicle and shot him because they thought he was someone else. And then in Maine, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, 26 years old, legally authorized to work in the United States, was shot and killed by ICE agents who thought he was somebody else. He was killed in front of his wife and his three-year-old daughter. How many more innocent people have to be killed in broad daylight? How many more children have to watch their parents shot to death by masked men too cowardly to show their faces? When will this madness stop? When he took his position, Secretary Mullen said that his goal was to get the department off the front page of the news. Well, they are back on the front page now with two more innocent people gunned down in broad daylight. Nothing has changed. Furthermore, in both of these shootings, none of the agents were using body cameras (that taxpayers funded). Where's the accountability?

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