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An ICE killing in Maine: If you received our newsletter last week, this introduction may feel all too familiar. That’s because in less than seven days, ICE agents have killed another person.

Joan Sebastian Duran Guerrero, who was shot and killed by ICE in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday, was a 26-year-old Colombian national with a valid U.S. work permit and a Social Security number. He was not the target of the warrant ICE agents say they were attempting to serve. His wife and three-year-old daughter witnessed the killing from their front yard, where Joan had just left for work.

ICE alleges that Joan attempted to use his vehicle to ram federal officers — the same claim officials made after ICE officers shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas last week and Renee Good in Minnesota in January. In its statement, ICE described Joan as a “threat to public safety” without providing any additional details.

The killing prompted a rapid response from the Maine community. Protesters attempted to enter Senator Susan Collins’ office in Biddeford and took to the streets to demand that ICE leave the state. The backlash also led ICE to announce Tuesday that it was halting most of its traffic-related enforcement activities, although President Trump said in a statement Thursday that he encouraged the agency to continue making traffic stops.

   “All I have left are the photos and a blanket with the three of us on it that he gave [our daughter] a few weeks before. My soul is broken. He was everything to me.” — Karolina Rojas Alvarez, Joan’s wife, during a press conference Thursday.

[Catch up: What we know about Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s killing in Houston.]

 The ICE agent who allegedly shot Joan, identified by the Associated Press as Army veteran David Brouillette, has a long history of mental health struggles and violent behavior, according to family members interviewed by the AP. Relatives told the AP that Brouillette had experienced serious mental health issues since childhood and “never should have been given a badge and gun.” They also described a history of domestic violence and accused him of assaulting women over many years. The family shared a voicemail with the AP in which Brouillette allegedly told a woman that he thought “someone should slit her throat.”

 “It really goes against what the Department of Homeland Security has said about how it closely vets recruits, how it trains them, and the hiring spree that we have seen since the beginning of Trump 2.0.” — Kelly

There’s much more to cover. Let’s get into it.

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Exclusive interview: Camilla Forte discusses her months-long investigation of a Chicago street corner, known to be a popular spot for day laborers.

Camilla, who reports for Borderless magazine, sat down with us to discuss how ICE's Operation Midway Blitz and immigration raids have deeply impacted both day workers and the contractors that hire them, how immigration enforcement has impacted the local community and economy, and what the grassroots response has been so far. This conversation starts around 9:59.

“Because [street corners like this one] are known sites, they were being targeted [by ICE] pretty heavily during the height of Operation Midway Blitz. That created a lot of disruption to the day labor workers. There were violent arrests, there was pepper spray being deployed, all sorts of things. I think that made business owners and people living nearby these corners maybe warier of workers and made the contractors who were going to pick up folks wary of being in these areas because they were not sure what would happen. The situation was very volatile, and it made workers very scared to go and try to seek out work at these corners.” — Camilla

[Catch up: We speak with a legal expert on third-country deportation deals, and the leader of a team that leaves water for migrants crossing the southern border.]

On your way out: Rachel Schmidtke on documenting third-country deportees stranded in Costa Rica

 We're here with Rachel Schmidtke, who is a senior advocate for Latin America at Refugees International. She is currently working in Costa Rica, where she and Refugees International are among the only organizations documenting the new realities of hundreds of third-country deportees from the United States, many of whom have no connection whatsoever to the Central American country. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, BBC, the UK's Channel 4 News, El País, and The Hill, among many other outlets. This conversation begins around 22:22.

 “I spoke with one person who didn't even know the name of the country that he was in while we were interviewing him. People arrive here often not knowing that they're coming. So, part of the work that I'm doing is just trying to monitor how they were treated while they were in the United States, [whether] they had applied for asylum, and how they ultimately arrived here to Costa Rica, as well as how they're being treated currently.” — Rachel

That’s it for us this week. Please keep sending us your questions, comments, or tips to [email protected]. Thanks for listening. Stay safe, look out for your neighbors, and we’ll see you next time.

— Kelly and Matt

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