Criticism of ICE Actions and Accountability

Mr. Speaker,

in the last week,

ICE agents shot and killed two more innocent people in broad daylight.

In both cases,

the people they shot and killed weren't even the people they were looking for.

In both cases,

they shot and killed people who were on their way to work in front of

their families.

In Houston last week,

Lorenzo Salgado Arejo,

a construction worker who has

lived in the United States for 35 years,

a husband with three children, no criminal record, he was driving to work

with the lunch that his wife had packed for

him and his brother riding in the passenger seat when ICE

agents rammed his vehicle and shot him because they thought he was someone else.

And then yesterday in Maine, Joan Sebastian Guerrero,

26 years old, legally authorized to work in the United States, legally authorized,

shot and killed by ICE

agents who thought he was somebody else,

in front of his wife and his three year old daughter, who screamed wearing her

bluey pajamas while she watched her father bleed to death.

How many more innocent people have to be killed in broad daylight?

How many more children have

to watch their parents shot to death by masked

men too cowardly to show their faces?

When will this madness stop?

When he took his position,

Secretary Mullen said that his goal was to get the department off the front page

of the news. Well, you're back on the goddamn front page now with

two innocent people gunned down in broad daylight.

Nothing has changed. Nothing has changed. It is total chaos.

And you know what?

In both of these shootings, in Texas and in Maine, none of the agents

were wearing their body cameras.

Congress gave them tens of millions of dollars for body cameras

and none of them were wearing them.

Where's the accountability?

And you want to know why we won't vote, why I won't vote,

to give funding to this lawless,

reckless, dangerous agency?

Mark my words, we are not going to be silent about what is happening.

We are not going to forget until there is justice.