The Hound | July 15

Hi there,

It’s Wednesday. In the span of one week, ICE agents shot and killed two men during vehicle stops — Joan Sebastián Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian father in Maine who was authorized to work in the U.S., and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old small business owner in Houston who had lived here for 35 years. These are now the tenth and eleventh fatal ICE shootings since Trump returned to office — and ICE's response was not accountability, but a quiet internal memo suspending vehicle stops while agents receive "additional training."

🖊️ Sign the petition to call on the media to cover ICE's escalating pattern of fatal violence not as an immigration story, but as a law enforcement accountability crisis — one that demands to know who these agents are, who hired them, what oversight exists, and why an agency that has now killed eleven people in six months faces no independent investigation.

This is not a series of tragic accidents. It is the predictable consequence of a rapid, poorly supervised expansion of an agency that operates in secret, pre-clears its own shootings as justified, and withholds evidence from local investigators. The public deserves reporting that treats these deaths with the same scrutiny it would apply to any other armed institution operating beyond accountability.

In addition, New York became the first state to pause hyperscale data centers and the Election Assistance Commission chair fired by the Trump administration speaks out on Trump’s attempts to control voting in the 2026 midterms.

Read about these, and more, with today’s stories:

Wild New Details Emerge on ICE Agent Involved in Fatal Maine Shooting (The New Republic)

New York Becomes First State in the Nation to Pause New Hyperscale Data Centers (Inside Climate News)

Trump’s Intel Pick Played Key Role in NYT Subpoenas — But Some Democrats Still On the Fence (The Intercept)

Ousted Election Assistance Commission chair on Trump's effort to control voting (PBS)

Organized Money: The Supreme Court Gives Wall Street Its Own Regulator (The American Prospect)

NYC Bar Sends Letter Opposing Todd Blanche’s AG Nomination, Calling Him ‘Unfit to Lead’ (Mediaite)

Florida executes one of its oldest prisoners in state’s 10th lethal injection this year (The Guardian)

Until next time,

Harry from The Hound

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