Over the last week, the country has once again been witness to the deadly consequences ICE has repeatedly unleashed on our streets. This new wave is fueled by the tens of billions of dollars in new funding the agency received from a Congress that has failed to impose any restraints on ICE.
In both instances, the agents were not wearing a body camera. And both times the government reached for a similar script alleging that the driver "weaponized" his vehicle.
Salgado Araujo built homes in this country he called home for more than 30 years. He was raising three sons, one already an engineer and one studying to become one. He was not even the person agents were looking for—none of the men in his van were. Those men—his brother and two coworkers—now may be the only surviving witnesses to what happened. According to representatives for their families, they have since been detained by ICE and have been pressured to sign paperwork that would allow their immediate deportation.
But we must not look away from the lives of Salgado Araujo and Guerrero.
A neighbor watched from his window as agents pulled Guerrero from his car, bleeding, and reported that he told the agents, “I tried to stop.” Those may be the last words Guerrero ever spoke.
These killings are not isolated incidents.
The DHS has consistently denied accountability and controlled what the public gets to see, how, and when. But to be clear, DHS’s actions impact us all, and we must not look away.
What’s more, the agency appears to be accountable to no one but itself. In the rare instances that its leaders respond to public pressure, the purported changes have, time and again, failed to safeguard human dignity and life.
Every ICE officer in the field should wear a body camera, and footage of any shooting must be released within days—not buried behind an inspector general who answers to the same agency that pulled the trigger. ICE officers should be prohibited from wearing masks. Every ICE shooting should be investigated by an independent body with real subpoena power, and answerable to Congress, not to DHS. And qualified immunity—the shield that lets federal agents kill and walk away—has to end.
We owe them the truth. And we owe every family after them to keep fighting to uphold the constitutional protections this government has so far refused to provide. Now—before there is another name, another van, another street stained with blood that didn't have to be spilled.
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