Tuesday, July 14, 2026

A murder by any name

 “In Maine on Monday, DHS said ICE officers were conducting surveillance at the last known residence of a person under a deportation order when they attempted to stop a vehicle as it was leaving the property. The driver tried to flee and an officer fired “fearing for public safety,” according to DHS. Independent Maine Senator Angus King said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told him the man who died — Joan Sebastian Guerrero — was not the target of the deportation operation.”  (Bloomberg)

Like most Americans, unlike the MAGA, those of us who believe in morals, values, democratic rules of law, I am appalled. I am not surprised, sadly, at this newest occurrence of murder by ICE.

A few more facts to piss off anyone who is not a MAGA cultist, a bigot, a racist, a xenophobe, to make this current murder by ICE even more disgusting.

ICE agents were directed to wear body cameras as part of a program to increase transparency and accountability. This directive was announced by Secretary Kristi Noem in response to public outcry following incidents involving federal officers. (Brennan Center for Justice)…And yet the ICE Gestapo agents of death still have no such camera attached to their bodies, permitting them to freely commit crimes of kidnapping and murder, as freely as they desire. 

ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is not the official to take charge of scenes in a murder, but in each incident where a human is murdered, ICE immediately directs the local police to step down and back off. Imagine how unjust it is for the same Government agency that caused the murder of innocents to immediately become the Chief investigators. What evidence could be ignored or removed.

And last but not least, the real ugly thing about this is that to date, none of the murderers of innocents have been held accountable for their crimes. Instead, they have been praised by their Nazi-like leadership under the tutelage of Stephen Miller, and now Markwayne Mullin and the ever accomplices in murder, the Republican majority in Congress, and protected, all of them calling the murders by ICE Gestapo as Patriotic!