Anti-ICE protesters attend a vigil for Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old from Colombia who was shot and killed by an ICE agent, on July 13, 2026, in Biddeford, Maine.
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For the second
time in a week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have shot a man dead. Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old father from Colombia, was driving slowly in Biddeford, Maine, when an agent shot into his vehicle.
As is now par for the course, ICE representatives are already lying about the incident. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin reportedly at first told Maine Sen. Angus King that the driver had attempted to use his car
as a weapon
— the same lie used to justify shooting 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo dead just one week ago in Houston and
Renee Good
months before that. ICE has made the
same bogus claim
in a number of recorded incidents involving agents shooting into moving cars.
In a contradictory but equally baseless statement, the Department of Homeland Security claimed on X that the “vehicle attempted to flee the scene and, fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon.” An eyewitness told reporters that before the victim died, his face covered in blood, he could be heard saying, “I tried to stop.”
Both shootings highlight the agency’s pattern of violent racial profiling and reckless indifference to human life.
Like Araujo in Texas last week, Guerrero had not been the target of ICE operations. This is not to say that either death would be any more justified had ICE been seeking the men for arrest; no immigration violation should carry a
death sentence
. But both shootings highlight the agency’s pattern of violent
racial profiling
and reckless
indifference
to human life
.
Thousands protested in Houston following Araujo’s killing. Immediately after news spread of the Maine shooting, protesters took to the streets and
rushed
to Republican Sen. Susan Collins’s Biddeford
office
. Co
