00:00People took to the streets of a small town in Maine after ICE agents reportedly shot and killed a man
00:07there on Monday.
00:08To be a community that was founded by, built by, four immigrants.
00:17CBS News reports that 26-year-old Johan Sebastian Guerrero died after being shot by immigration and customs enforcement agents
00:26in Biddeford, Maine.
00:28Guerrero was from Colombia and had been given an order to leave the country.
00:33Angus King, the independent U.S. senator from Maine, told reporters that Guerrero was not the person ICE agents had
00:40been seeking.
00:42The Department of Homeland Security issued a statement saying that ICE agents shot Guerrero out of concern for, quote, public
00:50safety, but have not yet provided additional information.
00:54The ICE agents reportedly were not wearing body cams at the time of the incident.
00:59The shooting brought hundreds of people to the streets of Biddeford in remembrance and protest.
01:05We have always been welcoming to our neighbors.
01:08Congresswoman Shelly Pingree, whose district includes Biddeford, issued a video statement on the ICE shooting.
01:14It's horrendous. They're operating the way they are in our state, and we absolutely have to get to the bottom
01:21of this.
01:21The ICE agent, who shot Guerrero, has not been publicly identified, but reportedly has been placed on leave.
01:28Federal authorities, as well as Maine's attorney general, are investigating the incident.
01:34The Maine shooting comes on the heels of another fatal ICE shooting in Houston, Texas.
01:40Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national who had lived in the U.S. for decades, was killed by ICE agents
01:47on July 7th.
01:48Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum announced that her government would be pursuing legal action in response to Araujo's death.
01:56Estamos planteando otras medidas.
01:58Which also remains under investigation by federal authorities.
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