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‘You’re back on the godd— front page now’

Democratic Rep. Seth Magaziner (RI) on Tuesday appointed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to task for the fatal shooting of two people by federal immigration officers last week.

“When will this madness stop? When Secretary Mulin took office, he said his goal was to take the department off the front page of the news,” Magaziner said, referring to comments Mullin made during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

“My goal in six months is not to be in the main news every day,” Mullin said at the March hearing. “My goal is for people to understand that we are there, protecting them and working with them.”

But an animated Magaziner, citing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers fatally shooting a man in Texas and another man in Maine this month, criticized Mullin’s management of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

“Well, now you’re back to the front page with two innocent people being shot in broad daylight,” he shouted, waving a newspaper in the air.

On Monday, an ICE officer fatally shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine. DHS said the officer shot the man driving his car out of fear “for public safety.”

Maine Sen. King of Angus (I) he told the Associated Press He said Mullin informed him that the man was not the subject of an arrest warrant issued by ICE officers.

King and Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R) called for an impartial investigation into the shooting. Referring to a conversation he had with Mullin, Collins said: said monday The DHS Inspector General’s Boston office took over the investigation.

According to the Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition and Presente, the man who was shot had a US work permit and a Social Security number! Maine

“A 26-year-old man came to Maine to live and work, and now his family is mourning his death after an incident involving ICE. This is devastating, outrageous, and unacceptable. His loved ones deserve answers, and the public deserves a full and transparent account of what happened,” the organizations said. wrote in a joint statement.

On July 7, ICE officers in Texas shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo as he was driving to work.

Salgado Araujo, 52, who had lived in the Houston area for 35 years, was trying to obtain a work permit and was close to obtaining legal status, according to his family. Relatives also said that Salgado Araujo had no criminal record.

Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas) said Acting ICE Director David Venturella told her she was not the intended target of the agency’s enforcement operation. While ICE said Salgado Araujo tried to use his car as a weapon against officers, the other men in the vehicle and an attorney for the man’s family denied that statement.

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