Today, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries released the following statement:

Less than one week after ICE agents fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas, they brutally killed another unarmed person, a 26-year-old Colombian man, in Maine in cold blood. This pattern of violent immigration enforcement actions shocks the conscience and must immediately come to an end.

Donald Trump promised that ICE enforcement in this country would target the worst of the worst. Instead, more than $200 billion given by House Republicans to Donald Trump’s violent mass deportation machine is being used to brutalize and kill American citizens and violently target law-abiding immigrants. 

The American people deserve transparency, accountability and an independent investigation into both killings. The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement system is out of control. ICE agents must be compelled to behave like every other law enforcement officer in America and criminally prosecuted when they violate the law. Enough.

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