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ICE hired an agent despite warnings that he was dangerous and should not have a weapon. He later fatally shot a Colombian father in Maine.

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Source: Latin Times

The Briefing: ICE more than doubled its workforce in under a year, adding 12,000+ officers through a hiring blitz that shortened training and all but eliminated meaningful background screening. Agent David Brouillette, hired despite documented domestic violence, mental health crises, and prior law enforcement rejections, shot and killed 26-year-old Colombian father Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, on July 13. DHS recruitment materials have featured a slogan embraced by the Ku Klux Klan and a song circulated in neo-Nazi spaces; a Colorado law enforcement intelligence bulletin warned that white supremacists were actively seeking to infiltrate ICE to ignite a race war.

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