When an individual (illegal alien) runs from law enforcement - there is a cause for escalation in apprehension. It's worse when the perpetrator challenges law enfrocement.

 

Two deadly ICE shootings in one week reignite concerns about federal immigration enforcement

The most recent incident occurred in the morning hours in Biddeford, Maine. As of Monday evening, exactly what happened was still unclear.

By Ian Maile July 13, 2026 justthenews.com

A fatal shooting Monday involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Maine marked the second such incident in six days, reignited concerns about the mission of federal immigration agencies after two civilian deaths in Minnesota this past winter sparked outrage and forced the Trump administration to scale back efforts.

The most recent incident occurred in the morning hours in Biddeford, Maine. As of Monday evening, exactly what happened was still unclear, including whether the victim, whose name had still not been released, was an illegal migrant and if ICE had a warrant.

"We are grieving. We are furious, and we will not allow his death to be treated as routine or inevitable," said Mufalo Chitam, executive director of the Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition. "How much more harm must our communities endure before those with the power to act acknowledge that this has gone too far?”

The group has also identified the victim as a 26-year-old male from Colombia.

A video circulating on social media shows a car with bullet holes in the front windshield and officers tending to a person on the ground. The incident is being investigated by the FBI.   

The Maine shooting followed a similar incident July 7 in Houston in which 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was fatally shot by an ICE agent. 

The agency said its officers were trying to conduct a vehicle stop as part of a targeted enforcement operation to arrest an illegal migrant and that Salgado Araujo attempted to evade them. 

ICE also said Salgado Araujo rammed an ICE law enforcement vehicle, refused to follow multiple verbal commands, and weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer – who in attempting to protect himself, colleagues and bystanders “discharged his weapon in self-defense.”

As with the incident in Maine, at least so far, there is no video of the shooting. Agents were not wearing body cameras and others in the vehicle with Salgado Araujo did not record the shooting. 

The back-to-back shootings follow months of relative calm regarding federal immigration enforcement operations after the two civilians were fatally shot weeks apart in January in Minneapolis by federal immigration officers as part of a large-scale operation known as Operation Metro Surge.

Renee Good was fatally shot January 7 by an ICE agent as she tried to drive away and appeared to clip the officer. On January 24, Alex Pretti, who was wearing a registered sidearm, was fatally shot by a Customs and Border Patrol agent when he got involved in a law-enforcement operation.

Those incidents returned to the national spotlight just hours after the incident in the city of Biddeford, roughly 15 miles southwest of Portland.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said federal authorities have begun turning over evidence to state investigators after months of withholding information regarding the cases.

"I remain deeply troubled that the federal government spent more than half a year attempting to conceal this evidence from state investigators, and I hope this is the beginning of a major course correction on the part of the federal government," Ellison said.

Houston officials have raised similar complaints, saying federal investigators have shut them out of the investigation into Salgado Araujo's death. 

“They have the evidence,” Houston Mayor John Whitmire said, according to CNN. “And in this instance, the van, the passengers, the deceased, and they’re tightly controlling it. We’ve reached out to them and asked them to share that information."

The Minnesota killings resulted in significant changes to federal immigration enforcement operations, leading to relative calm until recently.

Kristi Noem and Gregory Bovino stepped down from their respective positions as Homeland Security secretary and Border Patrol chief in the aftermath of the Minnesota operation. 

President Trump later appointed former ICE Director Tom Homan, who serves as the administration's "border czar," to oversee federal immigration enforcement efforts in Minneapolis.

Trump has acknowledged concerns surrounding the Minnesota shootings while at the same time defending his broader immigration agenda.

"He was not an angel, and she was not an angel," Trump said about Pretti and Good during an interview with NBC News. "But still, I'm not happy with what happened there."

Trump also said, following the public backlash from the deaths, that his administration would continue its immigration enforcement nationwide, including mass deportation, but they may require "a little bit of a softer touch" in certain circumstances.

​There had been 10 recorded fatalities from federal immigration officer-involved shootings nationwide since Trump took office and before the Maine incident, according to reporting from the Guardian. The Maine shooting marks the 11th fatality.

 

An 'Outstanding' article written to open your minds about the fallacy of open borders!

 

Open Borders Are a Death Sentence to Western Nations

Governments have refused to respect the wishes of their citizens.

J.B. Shurk | July 13, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

As simmering conflicts between Western citizens and Western governments boil over the next few years, we must never forget how we got to this point: Elected officials and irremovable bureaucrats occupying permanent administrative roles have refused to respect the wishes of the citizens whom they ostensibly represent and serve.

From the United States to the United Kingdom, citizens have demanded that their governments secure national borders and end the steady flow of illegal aliens into their communities.  From France, the Netherlands, and Germany to Australia and New Zealand, citizens have demanded that their governments arrest and remove Islamic immigrants who are guilty of rape, murder, or other violent crimes.  With the exception of President Trump’s efforts to enforce immigration law and deport illegal alien criminals (despite formidable resistance from the courts, leftist NGOs, and Establishment politicians from both the Democrat and Republican Parties) in the United States, no Western official has done anything to remedy the scourge of unlawful mass invasion in a deliberate, meaningful, and effective way.  Instead, Western governments hide from their citizens the true number of illegal immigrants living among them.  Western governments hide from their citizens a full accounting of the crimes committed by foreign nationals who should never have been permitted entry in the first place.

Mass illegal immigration is not a new problem.  In the United States, President Ronald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act into law in 1986.  Defended by both political parties as a way of combating illegal immigration while providing long-term lawbreakers legal status, it effectively awarded millions of foreign nationals amnesty.  Politicians convinced the American people to support this trade-off: In return for citizens’ reluctantly permitting the government to reward the unlawful behavior of foreign immigrants who had no right to reside in the United States, the government would protect citizens by cracking down on future illegal immigration and punishing businesses that hired illegal immigrant workers.  The U.S. government never lived up to its side of the bargain.

Instead, U.S. officials have lied to their citizens for forty additional years.  Until President Trump entered office, U.S. borders were not secured.  Businesses were rarely punished for hiring illegal aliens.  Unbeknownst to most American citizens, State and federal welfare programs continued to add illegal aliens to their taxpayer-funded dole rolls.  School districts in both cities and small towns continued to enroll illegal alien children.  Hospital emergency rooms continued to overflow with illegal alien patients seeking “free” medical care.  American jobs — especially blue-collar jobs — continued to go to illegal aliens because employers could pay foreigners less, avoid state and federal taxes, and use the threat of deportation as exploitative leverage over their workforces.  Illegal alien workers continued to place downward pressure on hourly wages.  Illegal aliens continued to place upward pressure on the costs of housing, energy, and household necessities.  

Sometime in the ‘90s, American politicians and government bureaucrats began admitting to Americans that there were roughly eleven million illegal aliens inside the United States.  For the next thirty years, politicians and bureaucrats repeated the same “eleven million” figure as if no net-increase in immigration had occurred.  Anybody living in small-town America knew this to be a demonstrable lie.  In the nineties, local school classrooms were made up almost entirely of American kids who grew up speaking English in households whose families had been living in the United States for generations.  As each year passed, those same classrooms were increasingly filled with kids whose parents had come from all over the world, and even small school districts were forced to hire staff who could attend to the needs of an increasingly foreign student body unfamiliar with basic English.  

Former Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino has said repeatedly that there are more than one hundred million illegal aliens residing in the United States.  In other words, roughly one out of every three people living inside the borders of the U.S. is a foreign national unlawfully here.  If those foreign nationals are employed, then they are likely guilty of identity fraud and committing a number of additional state and federal crimes.  Of those committing identity fraud, many are using social security numbers stolen from American citizens.  Illegal aliens who steal Americans’ identities adversely affect citizens’ credit scores, tax obligations with the IRS, and background checks.  Illegal aliens who fraudulently vote by claiming to be American citizens steal votes from actual American citizens.  Foreign nationals who illegally vote in American elections deny American citizens legitimate representation and undermine Americans’ constitutional form of self-government.

In 1986, lawmakers from both parties promised an end to illegal immigration.  Instead, tens of millions of new illegal aliens have continued to arrive.  In return for grudgingly acceding to the government’s desire to provide a one-time gift of amnesty to those foreigners whose first act in the country was to break our immigration laws, Americans continued to lose jobs, pay more for everything, and be defrauded by identity theft.  Even worse, they were forced to watch as foreign cultures transformed their schools and towns.  They were forced to watch as foreigners successfully ran for political office and pushed foreign policies and beliefs upon American citizens.  

New York City has a Muslim mayor from Uganda who has been a naturalized U.S. citizen for only eight years.  Minneapolis has a Muslim member of Congress from Somalia who became a naturalized U.S. citizen at the age of seventeen.  Roughly 4% of Congress are foreign-born naturalized citizens, while 15% of Congress have at least one immigrant parent.  A third of the judges occupying prestigious and powerful positions on the D.C. District Courts were born in foreign nations.  These numbers are going in one direction — up!

When President Barack Obama spoke enthusiastically about “fundamentally transforming” the United States, this is what he had in mind.  If you invite third-world communists to break into your country, pretty soon your government will be filled with third-world communists, too.  Americans were never consulted about this “fundamental transformation.”  Politicians and bureaucrats steamrolled American citizens with tall tales of foreign immigrants fleeing violence in their home countries and seeking safety in the United States.  Nobody tried to explain why all the foreigners fleeing persecution in their home countries still wave their national flags in American neighborhoods and at American sporting events.  Nobody tried to explain why foreigners from all over the world couldn’t obtain asylum in countries closer to home.  Nobody tried to explain why so many foreigners claiming asylum in the United States continue to visit their friends and families in their native countries. 

No American ever voted for this radical transformation.  No politician or government bureaucrat respected American citizens enough to seek their consent.  Nevertheless, politicians and bureaucrats continue to lie to the American people by pretending that foreign nationals are not taking over their society.  Because they despise American citizens, government officials tell obvious lies without shame.

Where is all this shameless and callous disregard for the will of American citizens headed?  It is headed toward the same dead end already appearing in other Western nations such as the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, and France: Increasingly, Western peoples are electing political representatives who promise to end divisive and deadly mass immigration policies.  The more that government officials undermine their citizens’ electoral will, the more that citizens are turning to the streets to be heard.  Peaceful forms of civil disobedience are evolving into violent altercations with police. 

Instead of listening to their citizens, Western governments call them racists and censor their online speech.  At some point, citizens will conclude that their governments have become threats to their security and way of life.  Governments will lose their legitimacy.  Western countries will become battlefields.  Open borders guarantee that Western nations will die.

 

Our once great Republic is suffering horrific voting fraud! The previous administration almost destroyed our Nation! This is total insanity!

 

Evidence mounts of noncitizens reaching voter rolls, casting ballots as DOJ speeds crackdown

Trump DOJ has secured about two dozen noncitizen voting arrests, prosecutions or convictions in the last few months, with about another 90 more cases under investigation.

By John Solomon justthenews.com 7-12-26

A small town Kansas mayor born in Mexico. A Filipino senior citizen living in Hawaii. Two Pakistani men residing in New Jersey. An Aussie in Louisiana. And a Chinese student studying at the University of Michigan. They all have one thing in common.

Each has been charged in the last year with illegally voting in U.S. federal elections as foreigners, part of a sudden wave of prosecutions led by the Trump Justice Department for a crime that used to be among the rarest in the federal court system.

The Trump Justice Department has secured about two dozen non-citizens voting arrests, prosecutions or convictions in the last few months alone, with about another 90 more cases under investigation, officials told Just the News. And all 50 states were sent notices this month that election officials can and will be prosecuted too if they allow non-citizens to vote.

“It isn't just bad policy to let non-citizens vote in federal elections, it's a crime. And this Department of Justice will intend to prosecute that crime if these election officials, having been informed that they are non-citizens on the voter rolls, knowingly allow those people to vote, enable their enrollment on the voter rolls, are passive in the face of this knowledge, etc. This is not some idle threat,” Assistant Attorney General for Ciril Rights Harmeet Dhillon told the Just the News, No Noise television show.

DOJ officials have found three major problems in policing states’ voter rolls ahead of the 2026 election: hundreds of thousands of dead people still eligible to vote, tens of thousands of illegal aliens on the rolls and scores of foreigners having gone beyond registering to, in fact, vote in a federal election, which is illegal.

Dhillon, the top election cop inside the DOJ, believes the numbers of foreigners illicitly voting in elections is probably higher but has been frustrated that U.S. Attorney offices across the country haven’t made illegal voting a larger priority until just recently.

“We are trying to empty an ocean with a teaspoon because there isn’t a culture of U.S. attorneys going after these,” she explained.

That’s changing with the sudden explosion of cases.

Just before the 250th American birthday celebration, three non-United States citizens in Florida confessed to having knowingly voted in federal elections despite not being eligible to do so. 

Federal law requires voters to be American citizens to vote on the federal level, but some states and cities allow non-citizens to vote in local elections.

The three non-citizens voted in Florida and two of them – one from Cuba and the other from Haiti — admitted to voting in 2020 federal elections. The third, a Brazilian, voted in a federal election in 2024 after becoming a lawful permanent resident.

“Voting in federal elections is one of the most important rights and responsibilities of American citizenship,” U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones, for the Southern District of Florida, said in a statement. “Federal law is clear: only United States citizens may vote in federal elections. These defendants admitted that they knowingly violated that law."

In Hawaii, a foreigner was charged for the first time in four decades with voting in a federal election in that state. Remedios Alasaas, 66, a Philippines national living in Maui, was charged last month with illegally voting in the 2022 general election and again in an August 2024 primary.

In North Carolina, a Canadian man living in the U.S. since the 1960s was sentenced to two months in prison after pleading guilty to making false claims about his citizenship to vote in various elections dating back to 2004.

Liberal organizations like the Brennan Center for Justice and many Democrats argue non-citizen registrations are a minor problem but overblown by conservatives. That case has been harder to make as the evidence has begun piling up.

Take for instance Michigan Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who long claimed non-citizens don’t vote in her state. Last year, she was forced to admit she found 15 credible cases of foreigners voting in the 2024 elections.

One of those was a Chinese student at the University of Michigan who turned himself in after allegedly being registered to vote and casting a ballot in the general election. The student was charged with two felonies: false swearing to register to vote and trying to vote as an unqualified elector.

Such cases caused Benson to adjust her messaging.

“This is a serious issue, one we must address with a scalpel, not a sledgehammer,” she said in a statement after the revelations.

In the nation’s capital, one of the most Democrat bastions in the country, a conservative watchdog group reported it found evidence that nearly 400 non-citizens voted in the 2024 general election.

“It is an outrage and insult to every American citizen, and may be a violation of federal law, that D.C. allowed 388 foreign nationals to vote in the 2024 general election,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “Congress can and should end this practice immediately.”

Non-citizens legally in the country place themselves at far more risk than just prosecution if they unlawfully vote. Their pathway to citizenship and ability to stay in the country can quickly be ended.

Take the case of Joe Ceballos, a Mexican national and former mayor of Coldwater, Kansas, who recently was ordered to report to federal immigration detention after pleading guilty to voting illegally as a non-citizen.

Ceballos earlier this year pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor charges for voting without being a U.S. citizen. He said it was “an honest mistake” because he is a permanent legal resident.

The non-citizen registration and voting cases are expected to soar. Trump administration officials like Dhillon believe the total number of foreigners who made it onto voter rolls will grow into the hundreds of thousands when all the reviews of state voter rolls are completed.

Many blue and even some red states are fighting in court to block the DOJ from examining their voter rolls. The dozen or so states that have cooperated in some form have identified 20,000 to 30,000 non-citizens on their rolls, officials said. A much larger bloc of non-citizens is expected to be found in non-cooperating states such as New York, New Jersey, Illinois and California, the officials said.

The DOJ push comes as President Donald Trump tries to persuade a reluctant U.S. Senate to pass the Save America Act that would impose citizenship and voter ID on all federal election voters. Some congressional Republicans believe Democrat resistance to the legislation may be a sign of something more sinister.

“Obviously, political parties that want to cheat. They will do what they can to fight to prevent photo ID in those states,” Rep.Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., told Just the News on Friday. “And that is a problem we have here. People are going to continue to feel that elections are not honest, because that's the only reason I can think of why people would not want photo ID. 

“I mean, my goodness, you need it for things like getting a drug prescription to save your life, and that's right, but there are politicians, all of whom happen to be Democrats, who feel that photo ID is racist, and so if we, if we tuck it into some sort of spending bill, we think we can at least make a step in the right direction,” he said.