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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on July 13 killed 25-year-old\u00a0Johan Sebasti\u00e1n Dur\u00e1n Guerrero, a Colombian national with legal work authorization, in Maine, making him the 22nd person shot at by federal immigration officers during President Donald Trump\u2019s second term.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Nearly all of those 22 incidents \u2013 19 \u2013 involved Department of Homeland Security officers shooting upon people in their vehicles during traffic stops, a crucial nexus, according to a States Newsroom review of news reports and documents. The encounters spanned the nation, from Colorado to Texas to Oregon to New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Since Trump\u2019s inauguration in January 2025, where he promised to carry out an aggressive immigration crackdown, federal immigration officers have killed six people, three of them U.S. citizens. Four deaths came during traffic stops.<\/p>\n

Following\u00a0Guerrero\u2019s death, the second immigrant to be killed by ICE officers during a traffic stop in a week, DHS\u00a0put a pause on traffic stop enforcement. But Trump quickly ordered the department to\u00a0abandon those plans.<\/p>\n

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that officers will conduct vehicle-related enforcement stops \u201cin order to continue their deportation campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

The agency has plenty of funding at hand. Congressional Republicans last year used a legislative maneuver to allocate roughly $175 billion to DHS for immigration enforcement, detainment and deportations, without needing Democratic support. GOP lawmakers did the same move this year to fund $75 billion for ICE and Border Patrol until September of 2029.<\/p>\n

After the ICE shooting in Biddeford, the entire Maine congressional delegation called for an independent investigation, with Republican Sen. Susan Collins urging an end to vehicle enforcement.<\/p>\n

A Thursday report\u00a0from the American Civil Liberties Union found patterns of misconduct by immigration agents during Trump\u2019s second term, identifying 432 incidents where agents either used or threatened to use force against immigrants and bystanders.<\/p>\n

The report reviewed more than 1,200 incidents across eight states \u2014 Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland and New Mexico.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of the traffic-related enforcement, the ACLU found in 76 instances, people and passengers were pulled from their cars; windows were smashed 47 times; officers 14 times rammed vehicles into people\u2019s cars; and they hit people with cars six times.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What happened afterward<\/b><\/p>\n

In the moments after those 22 shootings, DHS has quickly accused those who were fired upon of using their vehicles as weapons against immigration officers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But independent video has often contradicted that narrative.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In at least five cases DHS brought, charges were dismissed after the department accused U.S. citizens and immigrants shot by federal agents as being the aggressors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In August 2025, Francisco Longoria, a Mexican national, was driving his vehicle in San Bernardino, California, when federal immigration agents in unmarked cars tried to pull him over. He fled and the agents fired upon him.<\/p>\n

The Department of Justice charged him with attempting to harm agents, but prosecutors couldn\u2019t defend the DHS actions and\u00a0charges were dismissed.\u00a0Longoria was not injured.<\/p>\n

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Marimar Martinez was labeled a domestic terrorist by DHS and indicted after she was shot in her car five times by Border Patrol agents in October 2025, during the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration deportation campaign in Chicago.\u00a0DOJ dropped its charges\u00a0against Martinez, a U.S. citizen, after the Trump administration accused her of using her car as a weapon.<\/p>\n

When the president initially directed immigration agents to the nation\u2019s capitol, Phillip M. Brown, a U.S. citizen, was pulled over by law enforcement, including an immigration officer who shot into his vehicle. During the October 2025 shooting, Brown was not injured, but charged with fleeing from law enforcement. The\u00a0U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office\u00a0declined to prosecute the case.<\/p>\n

During the Trump administration\u2019s aggressive deportation drive in Minneapolis in January, that left two U.S. citizens dead, a Venezuelan immigrant, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis was shot by a federal agent while in his home. DHS accused Cesar Sosa-Celis of striking an immigration officer with a broom handle, but Cesar Sosa-Celis denied it and surveillance video contracted the federal government’s claim.<\/p>\n

The immigration agent who shot Cesar Sosa-Celis was\u00a0prosecuted by local Minnesota officials and arrested in May for falsely reporting a crime and for assault.<\/p>\n

In Houston, on July 7, ICE officers killed 52-year-old\u00a0Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, saying he tried to run over agents as has been the case in other incidents.<\/p>\n

Salgado Araujo\u00a0was driving several other people to work that morning when immigration officers approached his van. He was not considered a person of interest, DHS has stated.<\/p>\n

The FBI has\u00a0sought a search warrant to seize plastic bags with \u201ccrystal-like substances,\u201d to test for methamphetamine,\u00a0according to the Texas Tribune.\u00a0One of the lawyers representing Salgado Araujo\u2019s brother, who was in the van during the shooting, said it was granulated salt.<\/p>\n

A grim beginning to the year<\/b><\/p>\n

The most people shot by federal immigration agents was in January.\u00a0 Three of the five people shot by ICE and Border Patrol officers were in Minnesota, with two of them fatalities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The two deaths were in Minneapolis, where the Trump administration conducted an aggressive deportation campaign that targeted the city, which has a high Somali refugee population.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That month, federal immigration agents shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both U.S. citizens, and shot and wounded\u00a0Cesar Sosa-Celis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Good was killed while in her vehicle, which then DHS Secretary Kristi Noem labeled her as a domestic terrorist. DHS accused Good of using her SUV as a weapon, but independent video\u00a0did not uphold that allegation.<\/p>\n

A week later, federal immigration officers shot and killed intensive care unit nurse Pretti, who was recording agents on his phone and helping a woman who was pushed down by them. Noem again labeled him a domestic terrorist and said he was attacking agents,\u00a0but multiple videos taken from different angles do not show that.<\/p>\n

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