Editorial: Death at the hands of ICE |
A picture is displayed at a makeshift memorial in Minneapolis for Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed at point blank range on Jan. 7 by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent as she apparently tried to drive away from agents who were crowding around her car.
The fatal shooting of a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent cries out for accountability.
It cries out, too, for Congress, governors, mayors and the courts to do all that they can to rein in an administration whose crusade against illegal immigration has morphed into an assault on the fundamental rights of free speech and public assembly.
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While the killing of Renee Nicole Good has drawn national attention to ICE’s tactics, it is far from the first act of unnecessary and excessive violence for this paramilitary agency, which President Donald J. Trump significantly expanded to round up millions of undocumented immigrants. Mask-clad agents have descended on cities, suburbs and rural communities, snatching people off the street, breaking into homes and raiding farms and other businesses suspected of employing people who are here illegally.
Federal officers have killed at least three other people in recent months, according to the