UNITED KINGDOM PERSPECTIVE

London, July 15, 2026. Three deaths in one week, a Secretary of Homeland Security forced to suspend ICE road checks: the British press documents a US immigration agency under increasing pressure after a series of fatal shootings. On Monday, in Biddeford, Maine, an ICE agent shot and killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian, as his car attempted, according to the agency, to "flee the scene" towards an officer. Witnesses describe a different scene: the victim's daughter, in her pajamas, witnessed the scene while a neighbor yelled at the agents, "You took her father away." The involved officer, who has been with the federal law enforcement since 2017, has been placed on leave pending an investigation by the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General.

The next day, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin ordered ICE to suspend "all vehicle checks until further notice," according to The Independent. Republican Senator from Maine Susan Collins had urged the agency to "stop all non-urgent checks." This would be the ninth death in immigration operations since the start of the Trump administration's deportation campaign; another count by The Independent mentions eleven fatal shootings by federal agents since the inauguration. A week earlier in Houston, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, who had been living in the US for thirty-five years, was shot and killed in his car on his way to work; the DHS claims he had "turned his vehicle into a weapon," a version contradicted by the three other passengers. A third man died in Florida, hit by a truck while fleeing agents in Saint Augustine.

The Guardian reports Mexico's diplomatic response: President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the filing of criminal complaints in the US, denouncing a man "practically murdered" and a toll of seventeen Mexican citizens killed since the start of the migration crackdown, including fourteen in detention. "We can no longer continue with diplomatic letters that have yielded no results," she said. In Biddeford and Portland, vigils and protests demand accountability from an administration that the British press notes has made it difficult to document the exact circumstances of each shooting.