Demand Immediate Oversight of ICE After Fatal Shootings in Maine and Houston

Two people are dead in less than a week from ICE-involved shootings — a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday, and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father of three who had lived in this country for 35 years, shot in Houston the week before. You need to act now to establish real, enforceable oversight of ICE before more people are killed. The Maine agents wore no body cameras. In Houston, witnesses in the van say agents never identified themselves and that ICE vehicles struck them first — directly contradicting the official account. In Minneapolis earlier this year, federal agents fatally shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and the hard drives of evidence were withheld from state investigators for months. This is a pattern of lethal force with no accountability. Even DHS's own policy requires agents to avoid situations where deadly force becomes the only option — a rule being ignored repeatedly. ICE is operating as an unaccountable force that is killing people who are legally present in this country. Mandatory body cameras, independent civilian review of all use-of-force incidents, and full cooperation with state investigators are the minimum required. I expect you to introduce or co-sponsor legislation that delivers exactly that.