Crimes of ICE

Joan Sebastian Guerrero was murdered by fascists, leaves behind a wife, 3-year-old child, and sister. (Hill St & Pool St, Biddeford, ME, 7/13/26, 6:00 AM)

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In a change of course, the Trump administration’s plans to detain tens of thousands of immigrants in Amazon-style warehouses have been massively scaled back. As Truthout reported earlier this year, local communities mobilized swiftly to stop these massive detention sites, some capable of holding up to 10,000 people with no infrastructure to manage the waste and water needs. In January 2026…

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An eleventh person was just killed by immigration agents in our streets under the second Trump administration. This is a developing situation.

At 8 a.m. this morning ICE shot and killed someone in their car in Biddeford, Maine. The victim has been identified as a 26-year-old man from Colombia who, according to the Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition, was authorized to work in the United States. This is the latest senseless killing by Trump's immigration enforcement, following killings in Houston, Minneapolis, and elsewhere.

The White House and Republican majority in congress have injected an unprecedented amount of tax dollars into ICE. With their bloated budget, Stephen Miller and Trump have pivoted ICE and DHS away from the border and into city streets – breaking into homes, smashing car windows, and illegally murdering working people on American soil.

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Apparently, quoting the article means it breaks the rules of the community, so I will not be quoting the article at all in the hopes more people see the terror the regime is inflicting on our communities.

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The speaker of Maine's state House of Representatives said the FBI was expected to investigate Monday morning after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were reportedly "involved" in a fatal shooting in Biddeford—the second shooting involving ICE on the streets of an American city in less than a week.

"This morning a shooting occurred in Biddeford," said Speaker Ryan Doughty Fecteau, a Democrat. "A person was killed. ICE was involved. State Police and the Department of Public Safety are now on scene to gather details and would expect the FBI to investigate as well."

Few details were known about the shooting initially. Some streets in the town, located about 18 miles south of Portland, were closed due to an "active crime scene," according to News Center Maine.

Former state Senate President Troy Jackson, a progressive who is running to be the state's Democratic candidate for US Senate, expressed solidarity with the town "and with all Mainers"—who include about 56,000 immigrants, many of whom have lived in fear of President Donald Trump's mass deportation and detention operation in recent months.

Trump's deployment of ICE in Maine briefly received national attention in January. Federal agents have continued to arrest members of immigrant communities in the state after Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) claimed she had received assurances from the Department of Homeland Security that the "surge" in ICE agents had ended.

Jordan Wood, an organizer who is also running for US Senate following former Democratic candidate Graham Platner's withdrawal from the race to unseat Collins, said Monday that "ICE is dangerously out of control and an embarrassment to our country."

"We are waiting for more details, and Mainers deserve the full truth," said Wood, adding a call to abolish ICE "and replace it with an agency that answers to the people."

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BIDDEFORD, Maine —

Pool Street in Biddeford was closed Monday morning near Hill Street and there was a significant police presence in the area.

Police confirmed the closure to Maine's Total Coverage at 8:15 a.m.

Police said there was no threat to the public.

A Maine's Total Coverage crew saw Maine State Police and the FBI at the scene along with the Biddeford Police Crime Scene Unit.

Numerous crime scene markers could also be seen on the pavement in the road as well as two large canopies in the roadway.

Biddeford Police Chief JoAnn Fisk told Maine's Total Coverage that this was not her department's investigation and that her department was only investigating. She said all information will come from the FBI and Office of the Attorney General.

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Project Relief, an immigrant rights advocacy group, shared a statement Monday morning.

"We are heartbroken to share that one of our community members was killed this morning during an encounter with ICE in Biddeford. We are in contact with the family and are committed to supporting them during this unimaginable time. This was a young person whose life was cut short, and our community must come together to stand with their loved ones and ensure they are not alone. They must get justice. We will continue to share updates as we learn more, along with ways you can show your solidarity and support the family and the community."

It was not immediately clear how old the person reportedly killed was.

The group Biddeford Saco for Racial Justice said they planned to hold a protest against ICE at noon on Monday in Mechanics Park in Biddeford.

BIDDEFORD, Maine (WGME) -- A person is dead following a shooting involving ICE in Biddeford, according to House Speaker Ryan Fecteau.

The incident happened on Monday morning near Pool Street.

Fecteau says Maine State Police are on scene gathering details and he expects the FBI to investigate as well.

"I’m aware of reports that someone was fatally shot in Biddeford this morning, and ICE may be involved. My team and I are working to get more information and will share more as we learn it. Please follow the guidance of local authorities and stay safe," Congresswoman Chellie Pingree said.

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Protesters spoke to the WSWS about the terror gripping immigrant communities, the complicity of the Democratic Party, and the power of workers to shut down construction and the ports.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/56452014

On July 4, 2025, roughly a dozen people participated in a demonstration at the Prairieland Detention Center, a facility serving Immigration and Customs Enforcement. At the conclusion of the demonstration, a participant named Benjamin Song saw a police officer aim a gun at a participant named Nathan Baumann and fired warning shots at the ground in response. Since then, police have arrested 22 people on widely publicized conspiracy and terrorism charges, subjecting many of them to long-term solitary confinement and other pressure tactics. The first eight of the 17 non-cooperating defendants went to trial in March; they were found guilty and sentenced to between 30 and 100 years in prison each, with one of them receiving a 30-year sentence simply for having moved a box of zines.

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Donald Trump’s Homeland Security regime has been at the center of two critical stories in the past two weeks. In the first, federal agents shot and killed a man and quickly got to work justifying the use of force under the flimsiest of pretenses. In the other, it made house calls to people who said mean things to them online.

Since taking office last year, the Trump administration has been telling us that fighting the good fight of white supremacy will make you look cool and noble. The DHS under former Secretary Kristi Noem spent $220 million to help her cosplay as a cowboy and call up ICE recruits as if we’re fighting a new World War, this time against our friends and neighbors. It’s all very embarassing.

The propaganda is cringeworthy. But the immigration crackdown it services has been, undoubtedly, cruel and deadly. In Texas just this Tuesday, an ICE officer shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a father of three who lived in the US for 35 years building houses and caring for his family. The agency immediately released a statement justifying lethal force on someone it alleges tried to “weaponize his vehicle.” Videos showing parts of the confrontation already suggest it’s probably another bullshit story like the ones we’ve seen from Minnesota. The feds later admitted they were looking for an entirely different person. Salgado Araujo nonetheless ended up dead.

ICE has proven it can’t handle public confrontation. That’s bad. But it also can’t even handle emails and Instagram posts. It’s demanding a total lack of accountability not only from the law, but from society itself.

Over the past year, DHS has invented its own novel version of “doxxing” — once the domain of angry gamers on the internet — wherein the public now dares to unmask and name federal agents who have been responsible for horrors like the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis. The government doesn’t want us to talk about the agent accused of shooting her to death (whose name, by the way, is Jonathan Ross). Before being shot to death, Good told agents, “I’m not mad at you.” They killed her anyway, then called her a “fucking bitch.”

The government is very upset that people are criticizing it for shooting innocent mothers to death in the street. DHS stalked and intimidated a man who protested against state-sponsored killing, issuing him a “WARNING NOTICE” as flimsy as the nonjudicial “warrants” it uses now to bust into people’s homes. It’s like if Jay and Silent Bob showed up at your house because of an online comment you wrote, except with guns and the force of the federal government. It’s both deadly serious and deeply unserious. What are they afraid of? Well, we already know. Accountability in any form.

Minnesota officials had to sue the federal government for access to evidence that would aid in investigating ICE shootings because the feds won’t cooperate. It would be a weird thing for the feds managed by an allegedly pro-cop party to do, except when you consider it’s not really a pro-cop party, what with the January 6th insurrection. The current White House webpage about January 6th calls it “a date which will live in infamy” while moping about cop-killers being unfairly treated and saying Democrats did the real insurrection. Yeah, they’re lying. But also, seriously: weak crybaby stuff.

This of course all ladders up to Trump, whose project for more than a decade has been to accumulate power while eliminating the concept of shame and accountability. The man cannot tolerate a single slight without going off the rails, nor can his subordinates. This posture has trickled down to his army of fellow losers who mirror him in several ways: (1) denying any wrongdoing, (2) blaming others, and (3) intimidating anyone who crosses them. In some really bad cases, (4) obstructing justice. Then there’s also (5), looking really lame while doing it.

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ICE is a menace to democracy and its murderous conduct should be soberly considered. But we should also recognize that these people are weak and sad and ought to be made fun of. Even for their stupid outfits, which look ripped from a “how to be tacticool” buying guide. And Americans are ridiculing these people. What better way to protest an army of clowns than by showing up as Portland did with a human frog at the front? Cops arrested that frog. Trillions of dollars later, we’ve learned nothing about counter-insurgency, because now there’s a frog legion.

These ICE agents are so small that they wear masks in public like a bunch of cowardly Patriot Front wannabes, who probably got a similar amount of training. You’d think the average DMV worker would have been masked up for years based on the abuse they get, but then again, the average government employee is far braver than these fools.

ICE is now the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the federal government. If you know anything about the actual waste, fraud, and abuse of federal funding for defense, you’ll know this is not something that guarantees quality or competence. This is just Donald Trump’s new private domestic army. I’d call them Stormtroopers except for the fact I’m pretty sure some of them are getting their uniforms and body armor from Temu.

The Trump administration is suing Maryland over a recent law barring state and local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The 33-page complaint, filed Thursday, seeks to have Senate Bill 791, or the Community Trust Act, declared unconstitutional and asks a judge to enter an injunction blocking the state from enforcing the law.

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The lawsuit also contains two counts premised on immunity – alleging the Maryland law attempts to unlawfully regulate federal law enforcement and discriminates against immigration agents.

When you watch sites like iceout.org often like I do. You notice that there has been a sharp uptick in the number abductions. Recently, these abductions are quick and they normally only target small groups as opposed to the larger scale raids at places of employment, or the invasion of cities that happened earlier.

It shows a national trend in which tactics have changed. They are trying to reduce optics and media attention/intrest by keeping actions small and distributed.

David Courvelle was 56 years old when he was hired as a contract detention officer at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, Louisiana. He worked there for seven months. During that time, he sexually abused a Nicaraguan woman who was being held in federal immigration detention and had no power to stop him.

On June 26, 2026, he was sentenced to three years in federal prison.

Three years. For sexually abusing a woman in federal custody.

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This Is the Same Facility Where Multiple Women Have Filed Abuse Complaints

Courvelle’s conviction does not exist in isolation. It is the latest confirmed incident at a facility that has been the subject of serious and repeated allegations of sexual abuse, physical abuse, coerced labor, and medical neglect for years.

The South Louisiana ICE Processing Center is one of the largest ICE detention facilities in the country. It is run not by the government but by the GEO Group, a private prison corporation and ICE’s largest detention contractor. The facility houses women and detainees of various gender identities.

In September 2025, the ACLU of Louisiana, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, and the National Immigration Project filed formal complaints with DHS and ICE on behalf of four detainees who described repeated sexual harassment, sexual assault, physical abuse, coerced labor at $1 per day, solitary confinement used as retaliation for filing complaints, and denial of medical care. Three of the four complainants identified as LGBTQ and said they were specifically targeted by a former assistant warden named Manuel Reyes, who allegedly orchestrated a late-night forced labor scheme and enabled repeated sexual abuse against transgender and gender-nonconforming detainees.

One woman with epilepsy who was sexually abused at the facility and placed in solitary confinement after filing a complaint said: “I begged the U.S. government to help me. I filed complaints and grievances. I told ICE officers and medical staff. But they did nothing.”

DHS called the accusations false. A “hoax.”

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The Complaints Were Ignored Until They Could Not Be

Attorneys for the detainees who filed civil complaints described a system designed to bury their clients’ allegations.

“These people screamed for help,” said Sarah Decker, a senior staff attorney at RFK Human Rights. “They filed grievances. They filed complaints under the Prison Rape Elimination Act. They filed verbal complaints through the Office of the Inspector General.” The complaints, she said, were “systematically ignored” and “buried.”

“There’s a deep underbelly of abuse that we haven’t fully uncovered yet,” Decker said.

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ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) plans to open a new 528-bed facility for migrant families and unaccompanied children inside a Louisiana airport, AP reported this week.

The facility will be run by the nonprofit arm of a private prison company that has reported deaths of two detainees since April at one of its facilities in the state.

The new ICE facility at England Airpark in Louisiana will be run by the nonprofit arm of Louisiana-based LaSalle Corrections, a private prison contractor, according to Ralph Hennessy, executive director of the England Airpark Authority. The official contractor for the new ICE facility is the LaSalle Family Foundation, LaSalle Corrections’ nonprofit arm, a tax-exempt organization, AP reported.

Whether LaSalle Corrections’ nonprofit arm, LaSalle Family Foundation, may be violating federal tax rules is “a valid question,” said Josh Starin, attorney at law firm Shell Bray, in an interview with Impactivize. Starin previously spent 13 years at the Internal Revenue Service as a subject matter expert on major technical, procedural, and administrative issues for the IRS Tax-Exempt/Government Entities Business Operating Division.

Upon initial review of LaSalle Family Foundation’s most recent IRS tax filing, Starin said, “It doesn’t pass the smell test for what I would expect a private foundation to be operating.”