ICE Kills Second Person in Less Than a Week

Politics admin July 13, 2026 0 Comments

An ICE-involved shooting has left one man dead in Maine, just days after a federal agent shot and killed a man in Texas.

The Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition identified the victim as a 26-year-old Colombian man. The group has said he was authorized to work in the U.S. and had been issued a Social Security number. He was reportedly heading to work at the time he was shot.

His identity has not yet been confirmed by federal agents.

The Trump administration’s hardline immigration policies, guided by border czar Tom Homan, have created nothing but chaos at the Department of Homeland Security. The administration originally pushed for around 3,000 daily arrests, but agents’ aggressive tactics to achieve that came up short. Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in March, replacing her with Markwayne Mullin after Noem’s public deportation raids triggered a wave of protests, creating violent standoffs and large public pushback.

The circumstances surrounding the Maine shooting on Monday are unclear, but videos taken by witnesses show at least two men wearing vests reading “Police” and “Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”

One video shows a white Kia sedan driving in circles as law enforcement appears to attempt to get into the car through the driver’s-side door. Another video shows a white Ford Explorer that appears to have hit the Kia on its passenger side, with a person lying in the street near the incident. Images also showed bullet holes in the Kia.

One witness, Lucas Scott, told the Portland Press Herald that he heard ICE officers yelling as he approached the scene.

“The ICE agent was yelling and drew his weapon, and he kept yelling and yelling and warning the person driving, which is when the car was put into drive and was trying to hit the ICE officer, and he fired,” Scott said.

Another local resident, Daniel Boucher, told the outlet that he heard gunshots as he was getting ready for work. He said he looked out of his window to see a small white car before agents pulled the man out.

“He was bleeding profusely from the head,” Boucher said. “He was talking. He said, ‘I tried to stop.’”

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to the Daily Beast’s request for further information.

In a video posted to social media, House Democrat Chellie Pingree said she was “disturbed and angry” at the news, and asked a pointed question at ICE agents: “Why are you in Maine?”

“I, of course, need to know all of the answers here. Were they pursuing someone with a criminal record? Was this a random traffic stop? How did this possibly happen and why was this person shot? Were the officers wearing body cameras, and will there be investigations?” Pingree said.

The ICE-involved shooting comes less than a week after an ICE agent shot and killed a Mexican immigrant, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was headed to work in Houston. ICE originally described the incident as targeted immigration enforcement, but it was later reported that Salgado Araujo was not the target of the operation.

The uptick in ICE-involved shootings has renewed calls for accountability for the agency after two back-to-back killings earlier this year of Minnesota residents: 37-year-old mother Renee Good and 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti. The Trump administration originally tried to portray both Good and Pretti as “domestic terrorists,” prompting public outrage.

The shooting in Maine marks at least the 11th fatal shooting involving federal immigration agents since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term.

Earlier this year, Maine saw a surge in ICE operations as part of the administration’s “Operation Catch of the Day.”

Of the nearly 200 people detained in Maine during that operation, only 11 had criminal convictions. The Trump administration had asserted that it was targeting the “worst of the worst” in its immigration operations in the state.