{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://ansari.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ansari-condemns-ice-murders-calls-for-passage-of-drain-ice-act", "Rep. Ansari Condemns ICE Murders, Calls for Passage of Drain ICE Act", "2026-07-14", "2026", "2026-07", "Democrat", "House", "AZ", "Yassamin Ansari", "A000381", "ansari.house.gov", "ansari", "https://ansari.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, Representative Yassamin Ansari (AZ-03) delivered a speech on the House Floor condemning ICE under the direction of the Trump Administration for its continued terrorization of communities across America, including the murder of innocent people.\n\n\u201cICE, the President\u2019s paramilitary secret police force, continues to roam American streets and murder people in broad daylight and in cold blood. We are a nation of laws \u2014 not a nation of secret police, cold-blooded murders by federal agents on city streets, and blacksite detention centers,\u201d said Rep. Ansari. \u201cWe must urgently work to stop these horrific abuses, hold Donald Trump and his cronies to account, abolish ICE, and reform our immigration system. We need to pass my Drain ICE Act so that this horrific agency has not one more cent to terrorize American families and communities.\u201d\n\nAnsari's remarks come after her eleventh congressional oversight visit. Last week, Ansari visited the Eloy Detention Center, where detained individuals reported lacking access to basic necessities. Detainees told her that melting ice was often their only source of clean drinking water unless they purchased bottled water from the commissary, and that air conditioning had not worked properly for three months during Arizona's extreme heat.\n\nDue to a measles outbreak, Ansari was barred from entering the Florence Correctional Center but spoke by phone with Marcos, a Brazilian asylum seeker detained there. Marcos described spending seven days at the Mesa Gateway ICE facility sleeping on hard floors, going without showers, and eating the same meals every day. After being transferred to the Florence Correctional Center, he told Ansari that detainees must purchase clean drinking water while in custody.\n\nWATCH\n\nBelow is a transcript of Rep. Ansari\u2019s full remarks as delivered on the House Floor:\n\nMadam Speaker \u2014 ICE, the President\u2019s paramilitary secret police force, continues to roam American streets and murder people in broad daylight in cold blood.\n\nFirst it was Ruben Ray Martinez in March of 2025, but ICE covered it up and kept it from the public. Then it was Alex Pretti and Renee Good.\n\nICE shot and killed these two innocent people in Minnesota who had done nothing more than exercise their constitutional right to protest and free speech.\n\nAnd then the administration\u2019s right-wing propaganda machine got to work, smearing these two heroes as quote \u201cdomestic terrorists\u201d with not an ounce of evidence.\n\nThis was coordinated and directed by leadership in the Department of Homeland Security, by then Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem, and by the White House itself through heinous, racist voices like Stephen Miller.\n\nIt\u2019s not a mistake \u2013 ICE agents are completely out of control and that is on purpose. That is their mission.\n\nThis is what the Trump Administration wanted to happen from the start \u2013 to funnel hundreds of billions of dollars to their paramilitary force and then use masked agents and a nationwide effort to spread fear and terrorize immigrant communities.\n\nThe mass deportation agenda is part of their fascist far-right scheme to amass power by using immigrants as scapegoats and deploying federal troops to American cities, like my home town of Phoenix.\n\nAll across this country, people are shocked, outraged, and appalled by ICE\u2019s conduct and the sheer cruelty of Trump\u2019s mass deportation agenda.\n\nAnd yet it continues to happen in service of arbitrary, brutal quotas for bodies.\n\nQuotas for bodies of real people to fill beds so that for-profit prison companies like GEO Group and CoreCivic can rake in billions of dollars. So families can be torn apart and deported to third countries they've never known.\n\nWe\u2019re talking about 10,000 arrests in a five-day period this past week.\n\nAnd as part of all these horrors, ICE has conducted two sickening murders just in the last week. One in Houston and one in Maine.\n\nICE is using pathetic excuses and spreading more misleading information with the federal government\u2019s bully pulpit to cover up their crimes.\n\nThis is Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father who was driving to work and was shot and murdered while doing so.\n\nHe was not a domestic terrorist; he wasn\u2019t going to ram his vehicle into anybody. He had no criminal record whatsoever.\\\n\nHe was a hardworking beloved father of American citizens who was working hard to build the American dream. And if you haven\u2019t watched his son Ronaldo speak about his dad, I recommend you do so. It is heart-wrenching.\n\nIt\u2019s outrageous and insane that ICE is claiming Lorenzo \u201cweaponized\u201d his vehicle \u201cin an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer.\u201d\n\nMultiple witnesses testified that, \u201cthere were never any ICE agents in front of the van. They came in and started shooting from the sides.\u201d\n\nAs with Alex Pretti and Renee Good, ICE is LYING and lying badly. I honestly cannot believe how terrible their lies are. And then that wasn\u2019t enough. ICE murdered another person in Maine, 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero, somebody who had a work permit, somebody who had a US social security number. And then DHS put out a statement just yesterday, just last night, that said that this man was trying to drive away and they shot him for these vague quotes of public safety.\n\nICE murdered a Maine resident, a law-abiding resident in front of his wife and his three-year-old daughter for no reason whatsoever. This is just pure evil. Democrats in Congress have been demanding accountability for well over a year.\n\nWe are a nation of laws, not a nation of secret police, of cold-blooded murders by federal agents on city streets, and of black sight detention centers.\n\nWe must urgently work to stop these horrific abuses, it is a moral stain on our country. We must abolish ICE and we are going to prosecute every single person responsible for directing or enabling or carrying out these crimes.\n\nLives are at stake. How many more families and communities need to be torn apart for republicans in congress to do something.\n\nThank you, Mr. Speaker, and I yield back.\n\n###", 1, "2026-07-15T07:12:08Z", "2026-07-15T07:13:45Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://ansari.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ansari-condemns-ice-murders-calls-for-passage-of-drain-ice-act"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7517659105360508, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}