ICE Shooting Crisis Hits Trump After Two Migrants Killed
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The ICE Shooting Crisis is catching up with President Donald Trump (80)! Two migrants have been shot dead by federal immigration officers in less than a week — even though neither man was the target of the arrest warrants at the center of the operations. The killings triggered outrage, protests and new questions about Trump’s deportation crackdown. Since Trump returned to office, at least nine deadly encounters have now been linked to immigration enforcement. In January, U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti were also killed in Minneapolis during anti-deportation protests, in shootings involving federal officers.
Wow. Maine residents are marching on the streets after ICE apparently killed a man in cold blood in Biddeford.
America is sick and tired of the murderous, tyrannical U.S. government under Trump. pic.twitter.com/0eCwCuvsYs
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) July 13, 2026
The latest case happened Monday just after 7 a.m. in the coastal city of Biddeford, Maine. Colombian worker Joan Sebastian Guerrero was driving his Kia to work when he was followed by an SUV carrying immigration officers. Video shows the 26-year-old moving slowly in circles while agents tried to open the door. Then one federal officer fired several times through the windshield. Five shots can be heard, according to a CNN analysis. Guerrero, bleeding heavily, was pulled from the car and handcuffed. The most heartbreaking detail: his 3-year-old daughter was watching her favorite show, “Bluey,” in pink pajamas when the shots rang out. Moments later, she and her mother saw his body.
ICE Shooting Crisis Erupts In Maine
According to witnesses, Guerrero told the officers: “I tried to stop…” His body remained on the sidewalk for five hours. The Department of Homeland Security offered its explanation late: Guerrero had posed a threat “to public safety,” officials said. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told Maine Sen. Angus King that Guerrero had used his car “as a weapon.” But witnesses dispute that version. Officials also later acknowledged that Guerrero was not the person at the center of the immigration warrant. The ICE and Border Patrol personnel involved were not wearing body cameras.
Six days earlier, another fatal shooting shook Houston. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo (†52), a Mexican national who had lived in the U.S. for decades, was riding in a white minivan with three other workers on the way to a construction job. Unmarked SUVs carrying immigration agents followed the vehicle. DHS said Salgado Araujo resisted a traffic stop and used the van as a weapon. Then a federal officer shot him in the stomach. He later died. His co-workers, including his brother Victor Salgado, were detained.
Families Demand The Truth
The Trump administration insists Salgado Araujo weaponized the vehicle. But evidence has not been released. Witnesses and lawyers for passengers have challenged the government’s account, saying the officer was not in danger when the shot was fired. And once again, the victim was not the person ICE had originally been looking for. His son Ronaldo Salgado broke down during a press conference: “He did not deserve to die — all he wanted was a piece of the American dream.”
Trump’s White House has not yet publicly addressed the two deaths. Instead, the defense has come from DHS and ICE, which argue that officers acted because they feared for public safety. But the pattern is now politically explosive: wrong targets, unmarked vehicles, missing body-camera footage, disputed claims about cars being used as weapons — and grieving families demanding proof. For Trump, the ICE Shooting Crisis is no longer just an immigration story. It is becoming a national accountability scandal.
