{"id":709,"date":"2026-07-14T21:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanlivingreport.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2026-07-14T21:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:09:07","slug":"the-ice-crackdown-never-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanlivingreport.com\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"The ICE crackdown never ended"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><em>This story appeared in <\/em>Today, Explained,<em> a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here<\/em>.<br \/>Two fatalities, a surge in arrests, large protests in the streets \u2014 the past two weeks of US immigration news have given me flashbacks to January.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanlivingreport.com\/?p=707\">ICE is quieter but still deadly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But this time, something\u2019s different. Or at least appears to be different. This time, after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents fatally shot two men during traffic stops\u2026the agency ordered most traffic stops to temporarily cease.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The directive is a far cry from the denials and smears ICE lobbed last winter, after agents killed two American protesters in Minneapolis. At the time, administration officials went so far as to baselessly claim the victims were \u201cdomestic terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The circumstances of these new shootings are different, though early reports from eyewitnesses have raised similar alarms. Yesterday, agents shot and killed a Colombian man \u2014 identified as 26-year-old Johan Sebastian Guerrero \u2014 after he exited a home they\u2019d been surveilling. Guerrero was reportedly not the target of the surveillance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Days earlier in Texas, ICE agents fatally shot another man, 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, as he drove three fellow construction workers to a Houston job site. DHS claimed Araujo tried to ram the officers\u2019 vehicle. But the other men in Araujo\u2019s van said the agents never even identified themselves as law enforcement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>How Trump remade ICE<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The fatal shootings in Maine and Texas underscore an important reality: President Donald Trump\u2019s mass deportation campaign might\u2019ve faded from the headlines, but it never actually went away.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In March 2026, the most recent month with complete data, ICE arrested nearly 30,000 people, according to Syracuse University research. And just this month, ICE arrested 10,000 people in a single five-day sprint \u2014 more detentions than the agency booked per month for long stretches of the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanlivingreport.com\/?p=705\">How to keep your cool when it feels like everything is going wrong<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The quiet persistence of the crackdown reflects Trump\u2019s priorities: His desire to deport tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants hasn\u2019t actually changed, even if the PR calculus has.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But it also speaks to a profound administrative shift: ICE is a fundamentally different agency than it was under prior administrations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Consider ICE\u2019s budget, for instance, which shot up eightfold between 2024 and 2025. ICE now receives more money than the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives\u2026combined.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>For the first time in at least 20 years, ICE is also charged with entering communities to make proactive arrests, as opposed to merely picking up undocumented people detained on other charges by local or state police. That\u2019s how we ended up with agents surveilling homes and making traffic stops in the first place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>One link for later<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u27a8 If you\u2019ve never read <em>The Odyssey<\/em>, there\u2019s no time like the present. Christopher Nolan\u2019s movie of the same name comes out this week and seems destined to be a gigantic hit. Also, Vox\u2019s Constance Grady says, it\u2019s \u201cfunny, gripping, and sexy.\u201d That\u2019s not exactly my recollection from 11th-grade English, but I\u2019m willing to give another translation a read!<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanlivingreport.com\/?p=703\">How singing with other people can help you move through grief and despair<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Before you go\u2026<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span>See More<!-- -->:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today, Explained newsletter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration agents killed two more people. 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