Salgado Araujo’s death was at least the 10th fatal shooting involving federal immigration officers since Donald Trump returned to office.
The day after an ICE agent killed Good in Minneapolis, the former acting ICE director John Sandweg called the rise in shootings a direct byproduct of the administration’s shift toward arrests on public streets.
Six months later, less than a week after Salgado Araujo was killed, an ICE officer fatally shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine.
The facts of that shooting are still emerging, but the pattern is clear.
The news cycle will move on. Ronaldo Salgado and his brothers cannot.
Neither can Magnolia Park. They will live with the consequences.
The Trump administration has organized its power to make those consequences harder to see.
To the extent it asks to be judged at all, it asks us to consider intent, not effect.
If Americans want a government that commands trust rather than fear, they must demand more of those who exercise its power than of those who must live with what it does.
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A government confident in the legitimacy of its actions should never be afraid to show its face.
