Airman 1st Class Joshua Mittelsteadt, 509th Medical Operations Squadron ambulance services technician, at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., May 23, 2013. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Bryan Crane/Released)
Federal agents have shot and killed another person, this time in Maine.
According to the Bangor Daily News, agents working for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot and killed a man in Biddeford, which is a little over 15 miles south of Portland. Thus far only one person has been pronounced dead.
Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau, who represents Biddeford, released a statement after the incident detailing everything he knew thus far and noting that he expects the FBI to take over the investigation, as they have with all shootings involving federal agents.
“These are the details that I have at this time. I will provide further updates, as they are relayed to me,” Fecteau said.
It's the second person killed by ICE in less than a week. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national who has lived in the U.S. for decades, was driving his construction crew to a site in Houston, Texas, when he was killed.
According to a PBS report, Salgado Araujo's family noted he was inches from getting his full status after living in the U.S. for 35 years. He was well aware of what to do when approached by ICE agents, and his son said he was worried that his father could have been scared if he was approached by unmarked vehicles or officers who weren't in uniform, because the men were going to steal his tools.
The deaths are only the latest in the violent immigrant crackdown since President Donald Trump entered office and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin took over the department. Trump had campaigned on getting "criminals" out of the U.S. The Bangor Daily News said that of the nearly 200 detainees in the state, only 11 had criminal convictions. They said it "[undercuts] the Trump administration’s claim that it was targeting the 'worst of the worst.'"
This equals nine people who have died under Mullin's leadership, an AP report cited. At least 32 people died in ICE custody in 2025 alone. So far, 19 have in 2026, Axios cited.