In an uncanny echo of the recent past, a Mexican immigrant who had lived in Texas for 35 years and a young Colombian father halfway across the country in Maine were killed days apart in shootings at the hands of immigration agents.
While the shootings this month are still in their investigative infancy, they are a grim callback to January and the separate killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota when each encountered Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during the immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities.
Within a week, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, and Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, became the third and fourth people to have been fatally wounded by federal immigration agents this year as President Donald Trump’s sweeping deportation agenda has led to immigration enforcement crackdowns resulting in not only arrests and removals, but also violence and death.
Here’s what we know about the four people killed this year by federal agents involved in immigration enforcement activities and other shootings in which agents opened fire:
Good, a 37-year-old US citizen, was killed on January 7 when an ICE agent shot into her vehicle in Minneapolis.
