Congress Must Investigate and Take Action on ICE Lethal Force Practices

I'm writing as your constituent to urge immediate Congressional action on ICE's use of lethal force. How many people must be killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers before you act? Recent reporting documents a pattern of deadly force during vehicle-related encounters. In a "targeted enforcement operation," ICE officers shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo while he was driving. At least other four immigration-related shooting deaths have involved victims in vehicles, despite law enforcement training that emphasizes avoiding vehicles rather than firing at them. Additionally, DHS allegations that victims "weaponized" their vehicles have been contradicted by video evidence in some cases. This extends beyond recent incidents. Other investigative reporting has highlighted the deaths of Gabino Ramos Hernandez (shot by ICE in Laurel, Mississippi), Mario Bass (killed by an ICE agent in Dumfries, Virginia), Hector Santana-Arreola (shot by a deportation officer after a traffic stop in Denver), Johnathan Liddell (killed by an off-duty ICE agent in a Walmart parking lot in Georgia), Renee Macklin Good and Alex Pretti (Minneapolis), and Ruben Ray Martinez (Texas). Three questions: 1) What actions will you take to impose strict, transparent, and enforceable limits on ICE's use of lethal force in "targeted enforcement operations," including a presumption against firing at moving vehicles except in clearly articulated imminent-threat circumstances? 2) How many deaths will it take before you support requiring independent investigations of every ICE/CBP lethal shooting, with mandatory disclosure of body-worn and dashboard video, dispatch records, and after-action materials? 3) What specific threshold or timeline will you commit to for bringing ICE/CBP lethal-force practices into alignment with widely accepted law-enforcement standards? Your constituents deserve to know where you stand on this issue. I expect a substantive response outlining concrete steps you will take to prevent further preventable deaths and ensure accountability within ICE and CBP. The families of those killed deserve nothing less.