How ICE became so deadly – Stateside with Kai and Carter

theguardian.com · By Kai Wright, José Olivares, Ivan Kuraev, Anabel Bacon, Monica Espitia · 2026-07-15T20:45:04.000Z

Over the past 10 days, ICE officials have killed two immigrants in separate shootings in Texas and Maine. While the Department of Homeland Security has claimed that the officers were acting in self-defense and the interest of public safety, no evidence has emerged to support those accounts, and outrage is mounting over these latest examples of violence from the agency. Kai Wright speaks with Guardian immigration reporter José Olivares about the killings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, how their deaths reflect a broader pattern of brutality animating Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda, and what accountability for them might look like. ‘Fear, intimidation, violence’: calls mount to remove ICE from US streets after agents killed two men ‘New terrifying levels’: 10 people fatally shot by immigration officials in Trump’s second term