On this edition of Your Call’s Authoritarian Playbook Series, we discuss the fatal shootings of two men – Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas and Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine – by ICE agents and the lack of accountability for these murders.
Then, New Yorker reporter Jonathan Blitzer discusses his new piece, Locked Away, which exposes the intentional deprivation and dire conditions inflicted upon immigrants inside of ICE’s largest detention center in West Texas.
Why hasn’t there been any accountability for these deaths?
Guests:
Faisal Al-Juburi, co-CEO at RAICES Texas
Lauren Bonds, executive director of the National Police Accountability Project
Jonathan Blitzer, staff writer at The New Yorker
Resources:
The Guardian: One week, two killings: Trump’s immigration crackdown turns deadly – again
The Trace: How Many People Have Been Shot in ICE Raids?
The New York Times: Federal Agents Were Told F.B.I. Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations
NPR: Ex-wife says ICE agent who killed man in Maine had racist beliefs, violent tendencies
The New Yorker: Locked Away
The New York Times: ICE Spent $700 Million on 7 Warehouses. Now It Wants to Get Rid of Them.
