Congressman García’s Statement on ICE’s Ongoing Criminality

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Jesús "Chuy" García (IL-04) issued the following statement on the ongoing brutality and criminality of ICE:

"ICE is out of control. Federal immigration agents have killed two more people in just one week: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine. Both victims were fathers, husbands, hard-working immigrants who were contributing members of their communities. In both cases, ICE has lied about the facts that led to these murders, just like they lied when they killed Silverio Villegas Gonzalez and shot Marimar Martinez in Chicago last year. Beyond these and other ICE murders, at least 50 people have died in immigration detention since the beginning of Trump's second term. Yet, last month Republicans gave DHS $70 billion more for ICE and CBP, effectively funding these agencies through the end of the Trump administration. We cannot continue to fund these rogue, lawless agencies. Republicans need to stop pretending that ICE is an immigration enforcement agency when it's acting like an immigrant extermination agency. We must hold these agents accountable, dismantle DHS and rebuild the immigration enforcement system from the ground up."

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