Earlier this month, ICE agents in Houston shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican man who had lived in the United States for 35 years. ICE claimed Salgado Araujo, who had been driving a van, attempted to run over an ICE agent and an officer shot him “in self-defense.” Passengers who were in the van denied Salgado Araujo attempted to ram officers and disputed that the ICE officers were ever in peril. The FBI also raised the prospect that drugs were in the van—though an attorney for the Salgado Araujo family said the substance was salt mixed with lemon and water, a concoction used by outdoor workers to combat the Texas heat.

A week later, in Biddeford, Maine, an ICE agent shot and killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian man, as he drove a car with his three-year-old daughter present. The Department of Homeland Security said he had “weaponized his vehicle toward law enforcement” and an officer, “fearing for public safety,” shot him—though none of the available video confirmed that account.

There’s no reason to believe the ICE and DHS explanations in these cases, for each has been caught issuing false statements about previous episodes, including other fatal shootings, such as those of Renée Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis earlier this year. Since President Donald Trump initiated his brutal mass deportation campaign, the two agencies have jointly racked up a solid record of deceit and attempted cover-ups.

Here’s an incomplete list of incidents demonstrating ICE and DHS deception. The lying has become routine.

In July 2025, George Retes, a 25-year-old US citizen and Army veteran who did a tour in Iraq, was driving to his job as a security guard at a cannabis farm in southern California, where ICE and CBP agents conducting a raid had set up a roadblock. After he tried to gain permission to pass, he says, an agent pepper -sprayed him, smashed his window and dragged........

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