July 14, 2026
Los Angeles, Calif. (July 14, 2026) – The California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC) issued the following statement after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) fatally shot two people in the span of a week: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old man killed during a traffic stop on his way to work in Houston, Texas on July 7 and Joan Sebastián Guerrero, a 26-year-old man, killed Monday while driving with his wife and 3-year-old daughter in Biddeford, Maine.
“Every person deserves to feel safe in their own neighborhood, and every family deserves the chance to come home at the end of the day. This week, two families lost that chance,” said Bruno Huizar, CIPC’s supervising policy manager. “These were not isolated mistakes by individual officers — they are the predictable result of a system that sends masked, armed agents into our communities with almost no accountability and no transparency about how or why deadly force gets used.
“ICE and Border Patrol have reportedly shot at 33 Americans across 15 states killing 11 Americans since the Trump administration launched his mass deportation regime. 52 Americans have died while detained in inhumane conditions in ICE custody. The tragic deaths of Americans by ICE and Border Patrol agents are yet another example of how mass raids, detentions and deportations endanger our communities and erode our constitutional rights.
“Body cameras were off during the Maine shooting. And Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed even as ICE officers wore body cameras — proof that cameras alone are not the answer without independent review of what they show ICE officers act when they enter our communities.
“People in Maine, Texas and here in California all deserve the same basic due process and independent review when a government agent takes a life. That is why CIPC is a proud co-sponsor of Assembly Bill (AB) 1806 authored by Assembly Jesse Gabriel, which would require the California Attorney General to conduct an independent, transparent, and thorough investigation into any incident of a federal immigration officer-involved shooting resulting in the death of a civilian and would authorize the Attorney General to prosecute federal agents. AB 1806 is a concrete step toward the transparency and accountability every community deserves.
“We urge the California Legislature and Governor Newsom to pass and enact this landmark legislation to safeguard the constitutional rights of Californians amid the Trump administration’s lawless and deadly mass deportation regime.
“CIPC stands with the families of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastián Guerrero and with every community organizing for a full, independent accounting of what happened and demanding ICE and Border Patrol out of neighborhoods, cities and states.”
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