After sustained outrage over the murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis forced a public reckoning with ICE, I hoped the worst was behind us. This month showed me I was wrong. 

Over the last week, the country has once again been witness to the deadly consequences ICE has repeatedly unleashed on our streets. This new wave is fueled by the tens of billions of dollars in new funding the agency received from a Congress that has failed to impose any restraints on ICE.

On July 7, an ICE officer shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo through the window of his van in Houston, Texas. Six days later, an officer shot Joan Sebastián Guerrero to death in his car on a quiet street in Biddeford, Maine. Two fathers. Killed in two consecutive weeks.  

In both instances, the agents were not wearing a body camera. And both times the government reached for a similar script alleging that the driver "weaponized" his vehicle. 

We are told to take that on faith. I don't, and neither should you. 

Salgado Araujo built homes in this country he called home for more than 30 years. He was raising three sons, one already an engineer and one studying to become one. He was not even the person agents were looking for—none of the men in his van were. Those men—his brother and two coworkers—now may be the only surviving witnesses to what happened. According to........

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