Transcript · English → Spanish
Criticism of ICE Actions and Accountability
Señor presidente,
en la última semana,
agentes de ICE mataron a tiros a otras dos personas inocentes a plena luz del día.
En ambos casos,
las personas a las que dispararon y mataron ni siquiera eran las que estaban buscando.
En ambos casos,
dispararon y mataron a personas que iban de camino al trabajo delante de
sus familias.
En Houston la semana pasada,
Lorenzo Salgado Arejo,
un trabajador de la construcción que ha
vivido en los Estados Unidos durante 35 años,
un esposo con tres hijos, sin antecedentes penales, conducía al trabajo
con el almuerzo que su esposa le había preparado
y con su hermano en el asiento del copiloto cuando agentes de ICE
embistieron su vehículo y le dispararon porque pensaron que era otra persona.
Y ayer en Maine, Joan Sebastian Guerrero,
26 años de edad, legalmente autorizado para trabajar en los Estados Unidos, legalmente autorizado,
muerto a tiros por agentes
del ICE que pensaron que era otra persona,
delante de su esposa y su hija de tres años, que gritaba vistiendo su
pijama de Bluey mientras veía a su padre desangrarse hasta morir.
¿Cuántas personas inocentes más tienen que ser asesinadas a plena luz del día?
¿Cuántos niños más tienen
que ver a sus padres morir a tiros por hombres
enmascarados demasiado cobardes para mostrar sus rostros?
¿Cuándo se detendrá esta locura?
Cuando asumió su cargo,
el secretario Mullen dijo que su objetivo era sacar al departamento de la primera plana
de las noticias. Bueno, ahora están de vuelta en la maldita primera plana con
dos personas inocentes acribilladas a tiros a plena luz del día.
Nada ha cambiado. Nada ha cambiado. Es un caos total.
¿Y saben qué?
En ambos tiroteos, en Texas y en Maine, ninguno de los agentes
llevaba puestas sus cámaras corporales.
El Congreso les dio decenas de millones de dólares para cámaras corporales
y ninguno de ellos las llevaba puestas.
¿Dónde está la rendición de cuentas?
¿Y quieren saber por qué no votaremos, por qué yo no votaré,
para financiar a esta agencia sin ley,
temeraria y peligrosa?
Recuerden mis palabras, no nos vamos a quedar callados sobre lo que está pasando.
No lo vamos a olvidar hasta que se haga justicia.
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Original transcript (English)
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.
