Overview
- An ICE agent shot and killed a man during a traffic-stop operation in Biddeford, Maine, which occurred Monday, July 13.
- Advocacy groups identified the victim as 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero and said he held a work authorization, a claim that conflicts with ICE statements that he was the subject of a removal order.
- Maine state police, the state attorney general's office and the FBI have opened probes into the shooting and the involved officer has been placed on administrative leave.
- Major U.S. outlets reported that the Department of Homeland Security ordered a suspension of most ICE traffic stops after this case and a recent killing in Texas, and local protests and political leaders have demanded a full, transparent inquiry.
- The incident feeds wider scrutiny of ICE tactics under President Trump following other recent deadly encounters and has drawn international comment from Colombia's president about the killing.