[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 114 (Tuesday, July 14, 2026)]
[House]
[Page H4420]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
ICE SHOOTINGS
(Mr. Magaziner of Rhode Island was recognized to address the House
for 5 minutes.)
Mr. MAGAZINER. Mr. Speaker, in the last week, ICE agents shot and
killed two more innocent people in broad daylight.
In both cases, the people who they shot and killed weren't even the
people who they were looking for. In both cases, they shot and killed
people who were on their way to work in front of their families.
In Houston last week, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a construction worker
who has lived in the United States for 35 years, a husband with three
children, no criminal record, was driving to work with the lunch that
his wife had packed for him, and his brother riding in the passenger
seat, when ICE agents rammed his vehicle and shot him because they
thought he was someone else.
Yesterday, in Maine, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, 26 years old, legally
authorized to work in the United States--legally authorized--was shot
and killed by ICE agents who thought he was somebody else, in front of
his wife and his 3-year-old daughter, who screamed and wearing her
Bluey pajamas, while she watched her father bleed to death.
How many more innocent people have to be killed in broad daylight?
How many more children have to watch their parents shot to death by
masked men too cowardly to show their faces? When will this madness
stop?
When he took his position, Secretary Mullin said that his goal was to
get the Department off the front page of the news. Well, you are back
on the goddamned front page now with two innocent people gunned down in
broad daylight. Nothing has changed. Nothing has changed. It is total
chaos.
Do you know what? In both of these shootings in Texas and in Maine,
none of the agents were wearing their body cameras. Congress gave them
tens of millions of dollars for body cameras, and none of them were
wearing them.
Where is the accountability? Do you want to know why I won't vote to
give funding to this lawless, reckless, dangerous agency? Mark my
words. We are not going to be silent about what is happening. We are
not going to forget until there is justice.
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