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Death By ICE

Deaths by ICE/Border Patrol Agent Use of Force

2026

Nurul Amin Shah Alam – February 24, Buffalo, New York. 56‑year‑old Rohingya refugee, nearly blind, taken from county jail by Border Patrol on an immigration hold. Agents decided not to deport him, then dumped him at a doughnut shop after dark in subfreezing weather, miles from home, with no escort, no translator, and no way to navigate. Reported missing by his family; found five days later on Perry Street near the arena, dead on the ice. Official cause listed as “medical,” but he would not have died there if ICE/Border Patrol had not abandoned a disabled man to wander Buffalo winter alone.

Alex Pretti - January 24, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 37-year-old ICU nurse at VA hospital, U.S. citizen. Shot 9 times by Border Patrol agent after being wrestled to ground and disarmed. Video shows agents had already taken his firearm before shooting. Holding phone, not weapon, when agents approached. No criminal record beyond parking tickets.

Renee Nicole Good - January 7, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 37-year-old mother of three shot in head by ICE agent Jonathan David Ross during anti-ICE protest. Video analysis shows Ross was outside vehicle path when he fired 3 shots. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem falsely labeled her a "domestic terrorist" hours after killing despite no evidence.

2025

Keith Porter Jr. - December 31, Northridge, California. 43-year-old Black father of two shot by off-duty ICE agent Brian Palacios. Porter was firing celebratory shots into air on New Year's Eve. Agent went home, put on full tactical gear, returned and shot Porter dead. Family disputes self-defense claim.

Unnamed man - December 11, Rio Grande City, Texas. 31-year-old Mexican national shot 3 times by Border Patrol agent during struggle near riverbank on Midway Road. Agent fought with him for 2 minutes before discharging firearm.

Jose (Josué) Castro-Rivera - October 23, Norfolk, Virginia. 24-year-old from Honduras struck and killed by vehicle on I-264 while fleeing ICE agents during traffic stop. Was headed to gardening job. Had lived in U.S. for 4 years, sent money home to family. DHS blamed his death on "misinformation" and "resistance."

Silverio Villegas González - September 12, Franklin Park, Illinois. Shot by ICE agent during traffic stop.

Ryan Louis Mosqueda - July 7, McAllen, Texas. 27-year-old from Michigan killed by Border Patrol after firing at CBP facility in Weslaco. Two officers and one Border Patrol employee injured before Mosqueda was shot and killed.

David Maland - January 20, Coventry, Vermont. 44-year-old Border Patrol agent killed in shootout during traffic stop.

Ophelia Bauckholt (Felix Bauckholt) - January 20, Coventry, Vermont. German national killed by Border Patrol during shootout after drawing firearm. Passenger in vehicle stopped for immigration inspection.

Deaths in ICE Custody Due to Medical Neglect, Abuse, or Inadequate Care

2026 (January)

Parady La - January 9. 46-year-old Cambodian man. Died at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital after being held at Federal Detention Center Philadelphia. Arrested January 6 near Upper Darby home. Repeatedly told officers he was experiencing fentanyl withdrawal. Family says he vomited multiple times and requested medical care. ICE inappropriately administered NARCAN (for overdoses, not withdrawal). Found unresponsive in cell January 7. Died of anoxic brain injury, cardiac arrest, shock, and multiple organ failure. Family questions why NARCAN was used for withdrawal symptoms.

Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz - January 6. 68 years old from Honduras. Died at JFK Memorial Hospital, Indio, California after detention at Imperial Regional Detention Facility. Heart-related complications.

Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres - January 5. 42 years old from Honduras. Died at hospital in Conroe, Texas after detention at Joe Corley Processing Center. Congenital heart failure.

Geraldo Lunas Campos - January 3. 55-year-old Cuban father of four. Died at Camp East Montana (Fort Bliss), El Paso, Texas. *EL PASO COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER RULED HOMICIDE. Cause of death: "asphyxia due to neck and torso compression" while being physically restrained by law enforcement. Autopsy showed scattered superficial abrasions all over body, petechial hemorrhages in eyelids and neck, fractured ribs. Witness told Associated Press that at least five guards pinned him down with handcuffs, one applying pressure around neck until he lost consciousness. Another witness reported guards choked him and he repeatedly said "No puedo respirar" ("I can't breathe"). ICE initially claimed suicide attempt; medical examiner ruled homicide.

Victor Manuel Diaz - January 14. 36-year-old from Nicaragua. Found unresponsive in room at Camp East Montana (Fort Bliss). ICE claims "presumed suicide" but family strongly disputes this. Unlike previous Fort Bliss deaths, body was sent to Army medical center at Fort Bliss instead of county medical examiner, raising transparency concerns. Arrested in Minneapolis January 6, transferred to Fort Bliss. Family says "I don't believe he took his life."

2025

Nenko Stanev Gantchev - December 15. North Lake Correctional Facility, Michigan.

Delvin Francisco Rodriguez - December 14. Adams County Correctional Center, Mississippi.

Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir - December 14. Died in processing center, Moshannon Valley, Pennsylvania (detained 215 days).

Jean Wilson Brutus - December 12. Delaney Hall Detention Facility, New Jersey.

Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani - December 6. Prairieland Detention Facility, Texas.

Pete Sumalo Montejo - December 5. Montgomery Processing Center, Texas.

Francisco Gaspar-Andres - December 3. El Paso Camp East Montana, Texas.

Kai Yin Wong - October 25.

Gabriel Garcia-Aviles - October 23.

Hasan Ali Moh'D Saleh - October 11.

Leo Cruz-Silva - October 4.

Huabing Xie - September 29.

Ismael Ayala Uribe - September 22. Complained of fever and persistent cough for weeks; family reports former DACA recipient who lived in U.S. since age 4.

Santos Reyes-Banegas - September 18.

Oscar Duarte Rascon - September 8.

Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas - August 31.

Chaofeng Ge - August 5. Found hanging in shower stall at Moshannon Valley, Pennsylvania. Ruled suicide but autopsy noted he was found with hands and feet tied behind his back; facility provided no Mandarin interpretation.

Tien Xuan Phan - July 19.

Isidro Perez - June 26. Reported chest pains at Krome Service Processing Center.

Johnny Noviello - June 23.

Jesus Molina-Veya - June 7. Found unresponsive in cell at Stewart Detention Center; apparent suicide.

Abelardo Avelleneda-Delgado - May 5. Died during transport from Lowndes County Jail to Stewart Detention Center.

Marie Ange Blaise - April 25.

Nhon Ngoc Nguyen - April 16.

Brayan Rayo-Garzon - April 8. Found unresponsive.

Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez - February 23.

Maksym Chernyak - February 20.

Serawit Gezahegn Dejene - January 29.

Genry Ruiz Guillen - January 23.

2024

Ramesh Amechand - December 16.

Pankaj Karan Singh Kataria - November 1. Lost consciousness during transport to Prairieland Detention Center.

Jose Manuel Sanchez-Castro - October 27.

Brendy Yohana Bamaca-Zacarias - September 7.

Jhon Benavides Quintana - June 15.

Hugo Roberto Boror-Urla - May 22.

Cambric Dennis - May 22.

Edixon Del Jesus Farias-Farias - April 18.

Jaspal Singh - April 15.

Charles Leo Daniel - March 7. Died in ICE segregation housing unit.

Ousmane Ba - February 23.

2023

Frankline Okpu - December 6. Moshannon Valley Processing Center, Pennsylvania.

Carlos Juan Francisco - December 4. Krome Service Processing Center.

Subash Shrestha - November 13.

Julio Cesar Chirino Peralta - October 8.

Ernesto Rocha-Cuadra - June 23.

Salvador Rosales-Vargas - April 4.

Cristian Dumitrascu - March 5.

2022

Melvin Ariel Calero Mendoza - October 13.

Kesley Vial - August 24. Found unresponsive; died at University of New Mexico Hospital.

Benjamin Gonzalez-Soto - July 8.

2021

Pablo Sanchez-Gotopo - October 1. Suffered from complications with acute respiratory failure, AIDS, pneumonia, acute kidney failure, anemia, and COVID-19.

Elba Maria Centeno-Briones - August 3. Tested positive for COVID-19 upon arrival; staff failed to provide timely emergency care when oxygen levels dropped dangerously low.

Diego Fernando Gallego-Agudelo - March 15.

Jesse Dean - February 5.

Felipe Montes - January 30. COVID-19 complications.

2020

Anthony Jones - December 17.

Romien Jally - September 26. COVID-19 complications.

Cipriano Chavez Alvarez - September 21. COVID-19 complications.

Fernando Sabonger-Garcia - August 28. COVID-19 complications.

Jose Freddy Guillen Vega - August 10. COVID-19 complications; entered ICE custody in 2020 after release from state prison where he'd been since 2001.

Kuan Hui Lee - August 5. Massive intracranial hemorrhage.

James Tomas Hill - August 5. COVID-19.

Luis Sanchez-Perez - July 15. Septic shock from pseudomonas leading to cardiopulmonary arrest.

Onoval Perez-Montufa - July 12. COVID-19.

Santiago Baten-Oxlaj - May 24. COVID-19 complications.

Choung Woong Ahn - May 17. Self-inflicted strangulation after repeated pleas for release from detention due to COVID-19 risk were rejected.

Carlos Ernesto Escobar-Mejia - May 6. First ICE detainee to die from COVID-19; Otay Mesa facility was biggest coronavirus hot spot among detention centers.

Ramiro Hernandez-Ibarra - March 21. Septic shock complications.

Orlan Ariel Carcamo-Navarro - March 18.

Maria Celeste Ochoa-Yoc De Ramirez - March 8. Autoimmune hepatitis complicated by septic shock and acute liver failure.

David Hernandez-Colula - February 20. Apparent suicide at Northeast Ohio Correctional Center.

Alberto Hernandez-Fundora - January 27.

Ben James Owen - January 25.

2019

Samuelino Mavinga - December 29. Cardiac arrest.

Anthony Oluseye Akinyemi - December 21. Self-inflicted strangulation; found unresponsive less than 24 hours after entering custody.

Roylan Hernandez-Diaz - October 15. Self-inflicted strangulation.

Nebane Abienwi - October 1. Brain death secondary to basal ganglia hemorrhage from hypertensive event.

Roberto Rodriguez-Espinoza - September 10. Subdural hematoma; attending physicians identified this as preliminary cause.

Pedro Arriago-Santoya - July 24. Cardio-pulmonary arrest secondary to multi-organ failure, endocarditis, dilated cardiomyopathy, respiratory failure.

Yimi Alexis Balderramos-Torres - June 30.

Simratpal Singh - May 3.

Abel Reyes-Clemente - April 3.

2018

Guerman Volkov - November 30.

Mergensana Amar - November 18. Died by suicide at Northwest Detention Center hours after being told Board of Immigration Appeals denied his case; exhibited warning signs of suicidal ideation but ICE failed to provide mental health support.

Wilfredo Padron - November 1.

Augustina Ramirez-Arreola - July 25.

Efrain Romero De La Rosa - July 10. Died by suicide at Stewart Detention Center after medical staff failed to ensure he received prescribed antipsychotic medication for schizophrenia; nursing staff falsely recorded administration of psychiatric medication.

Huy Chi Tran - June 12.

Jeffry Hernandez - May 25.

Ronal Francisco Romero - May 16.

Gourgen Mirimanian - April 10.

2017

Kamyar Samimi - December 2. Medical staff at Aurora Detention Center cut him off methadone cold turkey despite using it for over 20 years; experienced nausea, vomiting blood, seizures; died 16 days after detention began. Medical staff thought he was "faking" withdrawal symptoms. Facility had only one doctor; Samimi never received health appraisal by physician or registered nurse. Officers said they were "troubled by what they perceived was a lack of care."

Jean Jimenez-Joseph - May 15. Died by suicide at Stewart Detention Center after repeated requests to increase antipsychotic medication dosage were ignored due to "systemic, chronic understaffing"; placed in solitary confinement 20 days before death; wrote "Hallelujah The Grave Cometh" on cell wall before death. Facility had 10-12 week backlog for mental health services.

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The Government Is Lying to You About Who ICE Is Arresting

TL;DR

ICE officers have committed verified crimes including murder, rape, sexual coercion, domestic violence, corruption, and systematic civil rights violations. Meanwhile, 65% of people arrested by ICE have no criminal convictions whatsoever, and 93% have never been convicted of violent offenses. The reality is that ICE is targeting peaceful families and workers while its own agents commit serious crimes—the exact opposite of making America safer or greater.

Article Outline

I. Sexual Assault and Coercion by ICE Officers

Andrew Golobic: 12 years for coercing sex from vulnerable women

David Corvell: Sexually abused detainee, faces 15 years

Kevin Taylor: 5-15 years for sexually assaulting minors

Pattern of abuse of authority over vulnerable people

II. Murder and Unlawful Killings

Jonathan Ross shoots Renée Good, a U.S. citizen mother and poet

Video contradicts self-defense claims

Government blocking state investigation

III. Corruption and Abuse of Authority

Henry Yau: Fabricated arrests for hire, $10M fraud scheme

Identity theft of 27 individuals

Offering arrests as favors to friends

IV. Domestic Violence and Other Violent Crimes

Samuel Saxon: Decades-long pattern of abuse, 23 police calls in one year

Breaking victim's pelvis, repeated strangulation

Federal agents committing the crimes they claim to prevent

V. Systematic Civil Rights Violations

Mass warrantless arrests without probable cause

Deceptive "ruses" taught at ICE Academy

Wrongful arrests and deportations of U.S. citizens

Three U.S. citizen children deported, including cancer patient

VI. Current Scale of Enforcement Against Non-Criminals

65% of ICE arrests involve people with no criminal convictions

93% never convicted of violent offenses

Nearly 75,000 arrests of people with clean records in 2025

The reality behind the rhetoric

Who ICE Is Really Arresting: The Truth About "Criminal Aliens"

A Conversation We Need to Have

If you've been told that ICE is out there arresting dangerous criminals—gang members, drug dealers, violent offenders—and making our communities safer, I need you to take a breath and look at something with me. Not because I want to attack you or make you feel foolish, but because what's actually happening is so far from what we've been told that it demands we pause and reckon with the truth.

I know you love this country. I know you want to keep your family safe. I know you believe in law and order, in doing things the right way, in protecting American citizens. Those aren't bad instincts. They're human instincts. They're good instincts.

But what if I told you that the very agency claiming to act on those instincts is doing the opposite? What if the numbers—the cold, hard, verified government data—showed that ICE isn't making us safer at all, but is instead tearing apart peaceful families while its own officers commit heinous crimes?

You deserve to know the truth. America deserves better than what's happening in our name.

The Numbers Don't Lie, Even When Politicians Do

Here's what the official data shows: As of June 2025, 65 percent of people taken into ICE detention—133,687 human beings—had no criminal convictions whatsoever.

Read that again. Nearly two out of every three people arrested.

Not "suspected" of crimes. Not "charged" with crimes. No criminal convictions. Period.

It gets worse. More than 93 percent of people arrested by ICE were never convicted of any violent offenses. In the first nine months of the current administration, ICE arrested nearly 75,000 people with completely clean criminal records.

These aren't the dangerous criminals you've been told about on TV. These aren't the "bad hombres" or gang members or drug traffickers that justified all of this in your mind. These are construction workers. Restaurant cooks. Farmhands. Nannies. People who've been here for years, sometimes decades, working hard, paying taxes through ITINs, raising American children, going to church, coaching Little League.

They're people just like you.

What You've Been Told vs. What's Actually Happening

The rhetoric has been relentless: ICE is protecting Americans from violent criminals who've invaded our country. Every speech, every press conference, every social media post from administration officials hammers this message home. They want you scared. They want you to believe there's an army of dangerous criminals lurking in every city, and only aggressive enforcement can save us.

But when you look at who ICE is actually arresting—not who they say they're arresting, but who they're actually arresting—the story crumbles.

Scenario One: The Nightclub Raid

Let me tell you about G.R.R. He was at a nightclub in Colorado when ICE agents flooded the building with tear gas and flash bangs like they were raiding a terrorist compound. G.R.R., terrified, hid under a car. An officer found him, ordered him out at gunpoint. He complied immediately—hands up, non-threatening, doing exactly what he was told.

The officer shoved him to the ground anyway. G.R.R.'s hand was sliced open, bleeding badly. An EMT said he needed stitches. The ICE officer slapped a band-aid on it, took his phone and wallet, found a Mexican consular card, and arrested him.

Did this officer investigate whether G.R.R. was a danger to anyone? No. Did he check if G.R.R. had been living in Colorado for years, working, contributing to the community? No. Did he care that G.R.R. needed medical attention? No.

G.R.R. sat in detention for 50 days. Fifty days away from work, away from family, away from his life. For what? For being at a nightclub while Latino.

Scenario Two: The College Student

Or consider Natasha Goncalves. A college student on scholarship with a stable home and family. She was stopped, arrested, and detained for 15 days. ICE made zero effort to determine if she was a flight risk. If they had bothered to look—to do even the most basic investigation—they would have immediately seen she was a student with deep ties to the community, attending classes, living with family, building a future.

But they didn't care about any of that. They saw someone they could arrest, so they arrested her.

She lost two weeks of her life. Two weeks of classes. Two weeks of work. Two weeks of freedom. For absolutely nothing.

Scenario Three: The Children

And then there are the children. In April 2025, ICE deported at least three U.S. citizen children—ages 2, 4, and 7. American citizens. Born here. Constitutional rights. Didn't matter.

ICE held their families incommunicado, refused to let them speak to lawyers, and deported them. One of these children—an American citizen, remember—was suffering from a rare form of metastatic cancer. ICE deported this sick child without medication and without giving the family any way to consult with their treating physicians.

Imagine being that parent. Your child has cancer. You're fighting for their life. And the United States government rips them away from their doctors, their treatment, their chance at survival, and dumps them in another country.

Is that making America great? Is that protecting American citizens? That was an American citizen. A child. With cancer.

The Cognitive Dissonance We Must Confront

I need you to sit with something uncomfortable for a moment. You've been told this is about law and order. You've been told this is about protecting Americans. You've been told the people being arrested are criminals, dangers, threats.

But 65 percent have no criminal record.

You've been told we're going after violent offenders, the worst of the worst.

But 93 percent have no violent crime convictions.

You've been told ICE agents are heroes doing dangerous work to keep us safe.

But let me tell you about the ICE agents themselves—the ones doing the arresting, the ones wrapped in the flag of "law and order."

When the Enforcers Are the Criminals

Andrew Golobic was an ICE deportation officer for 14 years. You know what he did with that authority? He sexually coerced vulnerable immigrant women under his supervision. He told them if they didn't have sex with him, he'd use his power over their immigration cases against them. When federal investigators caught on, he lied to obstruct the investigation. He was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison.

Jonathan Ross was an ICE agent who shot and killed Renée Good—a 37-year-old American citizen, mother of three, and award-winning poet—in Minneapolis in January 2026. Video footage shows Renée trying to drive away. Ross positioned himself in front of her vehicle and shot her three times as she was steering away from him. Then ICE agents blocked medical personnel from giving her immediate aid.

The Trump administration called Renée a "domestic terrorist" for trying to drive away from armed men surrounding her car. They claimed Ross acted in self-defense. But the video shows her wheels turned away from him when he fired. Experts analyzed the footage: at the moment he shot her, "his legs appeared to be clear of the vehicle".

Renée Good was a poet. A mother. An American. And ICE killed her, then slandered her memory.

Henry Yau was an ICE supervisory deportation officer who participated in a $10 million bank fraud scheme. Someone was about to expose the fraud, so Yau was paid to arrest that person to shut them up. He fabricated the arrest. He also stole identity information on 27 people from federal databases, tipped off an FBI target, and offered to arrest people as favors for friends.

Samuel Saxon was an ICE agent in Cincinnati for more than 20 years. Police were called to his residence 23 times in one year for domestic violence. He put his girlfriend in the hospital with a broken pelvis. He was caught on video with her in a chokehold, dragging her down a hallway, screaming at her. Prosecutors described it as a "yearslong pattern of escalating violence".

Kevin Taylor was an ICE agent convicted of sexually assaulting two minors. He got 5 to 15 years in prison.

David Corvell, another ICE officer, sexually abused a detainee and faces up to 15 years in prison.

These aren't isolated incidents. These are the people telling you they're protecting you from dangerous criminals.

The Moral Math That Doesn't Add Up

Let's do some moral accounting here, because this is important.

ICE is arresting 133,687 people with no criminal convictions—people who've committed no crimes, hurt no one, just trying to live and work and raise their families.

Meanwhile, ICE's own officers are:

Raping and sexually coercing vulnerable people

Murdering American citizens

Committing domestic violence so severe victims end up hospitalized

Running fraud schemes

Fabricating arrests for money

Beating people during raids

So let me ask you directly: Who's making America less safe? The construction worker with no criminal record trying to feed his kids? Or the ICE officer breaking his girlfriend's pelvis?

Who's the threat to your family? The restaurant cook who's been here 15 years paying taxes? Or the ICE supervisor fabricating arrests for $20,000?

Who's the danger to American values? The college scholarship student? Or the ICE agent who shot an unarmed mother and then let her bleed out?

This Isn't About Border Security—It's About Power

I know some of you are thinking: "But they're here illegally. They broke the law."

Okay. Let's talk about that.

First, unlawful presence is a civil violation, not a criminal one. It's in the same legal category as a parking ticket or breaking an HOA rule. We don't send SWAT teams with flash bangs for parking tickets.

Second, many of these people entered legally and overstayed visas—something that happens when life gets complicated, when family emergencies arise, when bureaucratic processes take years. They're not cartels. They're not smugglers. They're people who fell out of status in a mind-numbingly complex immigration system.

Third, and this is crucial: even if someone violated immigration law, that doesn't strip them of human rights. It doesn't make it okay to tear gas a nightclub and slice someone's hand open. It doesn't justify deporting a child with cancer. It doesn't excuse refusing medical care or fabricating charges or killing someone who's trying to drive away.

The punishment has to fit the violation. You don't get the death penalty for jaywalking. You don't get 50 days in detention for going to a nightclub. You don't get your U.S. citizen child deported because a paperwork mistake.

Unless this was never really about the law at all. Unless it was always about power. About who gets to stay and who gets removed. About who counts as human and who doesn't.

The Lie You've Been Sold

Here's the truth they don't want you to know: undocumented immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans. Study after study confirms this. They're not making your neighborhood dangerous—statistically, they're making it safer.

The people being arrested aren't the criminals you've been warned about. 93 percent have no violent crime convictions. The vast majority are working people with families, roots in communities, children in schools.

You've been sold a lie. You've been told to fear your neighbor, the guy who mows your lawn, the woman who cleans the hotel, the man who picks the food you eat. You've been told they're dangerous, they're criminals, they're invaders.

But when you look at the actual data—not the rhetoric, not the fear-mongering, but the data—it falls apart completely.

What Greatness Actually Looks Like

I want you to think about what made America great in the first place. Was it cruelty? Was it tearing families apart? Was it deporting sick children? Was it arresting people at church or in their homes or at college?

Or was it something else?

Was it the idea that everyone deserves dignity? That we judge people by their character, not where they were born? That we're a nation of second chances, of opportunity, of refuge?

Emma Lazarus wrote words that appear on the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." That's what people around the world thought America was. A place where hard work mattered more than bloodline. Where you could build a better life if you were willing to sacrifice and contribute.

What's happening now isn't making America great. It's making America cruel. It's making America a place where:

College students get arrested for being the wrong ethnicity

Children with cancer get deported

Peaceful workers get flash-banged at nightclubs

Families are ripped apart even though no crimes were committed

The enforcers themselves are rapists and murderers and frauds

Is that what greatness looks like to you?

A Plea to Your Conscience

I'm not asking you to abandon your principles. I'm not asking you to support "open borders" or lawlessness or anything else you've been told is the only alternative.

I'm asking you to look at what's actually happening. To see the human cost of policies being enacted in your name, with your support, funded by your tax dollars.

I'm asking you to ask yourself: Is this who we want to be?

When you meet your maker—or when you look your grandchildren in the eye—will you be proud of what happened? Will you say, "Yes, we arrested 133,687 people who'd committed no crimes, we deported children with cancer, we let agents rape and murder and face no consequences, but it was worth it"?

Or will you wish you'd spoken up? Will you wish you'd looked at the numbers, really looked at them, and demanded something better?

This Isn't Partisan—It's Human

This isn't about red or blue. This isn't about winning or losing political arguments. This is about right and wrong. This is about whether we're going to be a country that treats people—all people—with basic dignity and justice.

If ICE were truly focused on violent criminals and public safety threats, I think many of us could get behind that. But that's not what's happening. The data makes it crystal clear: 65 percent of arrests are people with no criminal record at all.

That's not law enforcement. That's not public safety. That's terror. That's using the power of the state to harass and traumatize and exile people whose only "crime" was trying to build a better life.

And while this is happening, ICE's own agents are committing sexual assault, murder, fraud, and domestic violence—real crimes, with real victims, causing real harm.

If you truly believe in law and order, shouldn't you be outraged that the people enforcing the law are breaking it in the most heinous ways imaginable? Shouldn't you demand accountability?

What You Can Do

You don't have to agree with everything I'm saying. You don't have to suddenly support every immigration policy proposal from the other side.

But you can do this: Look at the numbers yourself. Don't take my word for it. Go find the official data. Look at who's actually being arrested. Look at what ICE agents have actually been convicted of.

And then ask yourself: Does this align with what I've been told? Does this match the narrative I've been fed? Does this reflect the values I hold?

If the answer is no—and I believe in my heart it will be no for many of you—then speak up. Tell your representatives this isn't what you want. Tell your community this isn't acceptable. Tell your family that tearing apart peaceful families while federal agents commit rape and murder isn't making America great.

It's doing the opposite.

America is great when we live up to our ideals. When we treat people with dignity. When we demand justice, not just for people who look like us or were born in the same place we were, but for everyone.

That's the greatness worth fighting for. Not this. Never this.

A Final Word

I know this is hard to read. I know it challenges things you might have believed deeply. That's uncomfortable. I get it.

But uncomfortable truths are still truths. And we owe it to ourselves—we owe it to the legacy we leave—to face them.

Sixty-five percent with no criminal record. Ninety-three percent with no violent crime convictions. Children with cancer deported. Mothers shot. Students arrested. Peaceful workers terrorized.

This is what's happening in America right now, in 2026, in your name.

Is this the country you want to live in? Is this the America you want your children to inherit?

Or is it time to demand something better—something actually great?

The choice, as it always has been, is ours.

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21-Year-Old Teresa Youngblut Linked to Zizians Charged with Killing of US Border Patrol Agent David Maland

A chilling shootout near the Canadian border in Vermont has unearthed dangerous ties to a cultlike group, bringing attention to an obscure but deadly network operating across state lines. The January 20, 2025, incident resulted in the death of Border Patrol agent David Maland and raised alarms about the growing threat posed by radicalized factions in the United States. At the heart of this…

21-Year-Old Teresa Youngblut Linked to Zizians Charged with Killing of US Border Patrol Agent David Maland

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Ivan IV of Russia, known as 'The Terrible',

said:

'To shave the beard is a sin that the blood of all the martyrs cannot cleanse. It is to deface the image of man created by God.

 - Quoted in David Maland: 'Europe in the Seventeenth Century' (1968).