Abolish ICE
No one is safe as long as ICE exists
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This week, ICE agents gunned down and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national, in broad daylight. Araujo’s family learned about his death via a video of the shooting posted on social media. They recognized his screams for help. No one from any official agency called them or reached out to them. The other men in the van with Araujo, who witnessed the killing, were detained and are currently being pressured to “self-deport” by the officials holding them.
Araujo had lived in the U.S. for 35 years, raised three children, and built a home for them. As his son Ronaldo said in a press conference, “He did not deserve to die. He did not deserve to be reduced to a headline of Mexican man shot and killed by ICE. He deserved to live a quiet life as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a husband, a father, and a job creator for dozens of men who also wanted the American dream.”
The family is calling for an independent investigation into the shooting. But since neither Renee Good’s nor Alex Pretti’s deaths by ICE were properly investigated, nor criminal charges ever filed, I don’t hold out hope for Salgado’s family getting any kind of justice or recourse.
ICE continues to be an out-of-control agency, operating at the whims of the Trump Regime and accountable to no one outside of it. ICE agents terrorize communities across the US with abductions and raids. The New York Times recently reported on a surge of 10,000 abductions in five days across the US. Per reporting from Mother Jones, Memphis, Tennessee, is currently “under full-blown” occupation by ICE, and community members who attempt to get that story into the press face swift retaliation.
No one is safe until ICE ceases to exist. Starting with undocumented migrants and immigrant communities, but as we’ve now seen with Good, Pretti, and Salgado, and seven more people shot by federal immigration officers this year. ICE agents are able to kill innocent people without due process. And neither the agency nor individual agents will be held accountable.
But it goes beyond that. As WIRED reports this week, ICE’s internal watchdog is now investigating critics of the agency. The Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) has now opened 131 cases in 2026 and 2026 involving “incidents of doxing and threats directed towards ICE employees nationwide.” You’ll be shocked to learn that OPR has fallen behind on what it’s actually supposed to do—internal investigations.
The results of OPR’s investigations are Americans getting harassed for speaking out. From poll worker Paigelynne Gonyea, who was confronted by ICE agents at a voting location where they demanded she take down a critical social media post to David Streever, whom ICE agents tracked down on vacation because of an angry email he wrote to ICE’s Acting Director Todd Lyons, criticizing the agency’s actions in Minneapolis earlier this year.
At this point, I believe it’s fair to call ICE a secret police force enacting Trump’s whims. The agency is abducting people and terrorizing communities. The agency has a body count and has protected the agents responsible rather than prosecuting or even disciplining them. Now the agency is attempting to crush dissent by intimidating those who speak out against the atrocities it commits.
This is wholly unacceptable, and why Abolish ICE must be a baseline for the Left, especially candidates running for and those holding elected office. There is no reforming or recalibrating this agency. Justice won’t be done for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and everyone who was abducted until everyone responsible has been held to account and the agency is shut down for good.
ICE is now investigating its own critics. A poll worker confronted at a voting location. A man tracked down on vacation over an email he sent. 131 cases opened this year against Americans who spoke out.
This is what it looks like when an agency stops answering to anyone but the Trump Regime. CARD exists to document it and ensure you have what you need to fight back.
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