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BIDDEFORD
There is a pattern. Federal immigration agents have been involved in at least 38 shootings since January 20, 2025, resulting in 9 deaths.
At 7:17 this morning, federal immigration agents shot and killed a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine. The Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and Presente! Maine, which have been in contact with his family, confirmed that he was authorized to work in the United States. He had been issued a Social Security number. He was a member of the Biddeford community. He is dead.
The Department of Homeland Security has not issued a statement. ICE has not issued a statement. What is known comes from the Maine Attorney General’s office, which said an ICE officer conducting a “final order of removal” enforcement operation fired after the man allegedly drove “in the direction of the officer” as he tried to flee. No body cameras were operating to capture the shooting. Sen. Angus King, who spoke with Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, initially told reporters the victim was the target of the warrant. Hours later, King’s office issued a correction: Mullin told him in a second call that the man fatally shot was “NOT the target of the warrant.”
He was not the target. The officers who shot him were not wearing body cameras. He is dead.
A neighbor’s Ring camera captured multiple gunshots at 7:17 a.m. Security footage reviewed by a nearby business owner showed a white car circling the intersection aimlessly — the driver apparently already shot — before an SUV banged into it. The business owner gave the footage to law enforcement and declined to share it publicly. Four bullet holes were visible in the windshield of a Kia sedan at the scene.
King said he was told body cameras were “possibly in 45 days.” “I am concerned that they should have been having body cameras two years ago when all this started,” he said. “It shouldn’t be a case of, ‘Oh well, maybe we should do something about body cameras.’”
In April 2026, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine voted to give ICE $70 billion in new funding, in a vote that passed 50-48. Democrats had sought to attach reforms to that funding: requirements for body cameras, requirements for judicial warrants before agents enter homes, oversight of detention facilities, visible officer identification. Negotiations collapsed. The bill passed without any of those provisions. Collins voted for it.
Collins issued a statement today. “The shooting in Biddeford requires a full and impartial investigation of what happened,” she said.
Protesters gathered at Mechanics Park in Biddeford. Others went directly to Collins’ Biddeford office. Their signs read “ICE just killed my neighbor” and “I prefer crushed ICE.” The Colombian Embassy in Washington said it is working to confirm the victim’s nationality. The Maine Attorney General is investigating. The FBI is on scene. The Maine State Police are cooperating.
This is the ninth ICE-related death since January 20, 2025. In Houston six days ago, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was also not the intended target. He also died without body cameras recording what happened. In Minneapolis in January, Renée Good was shot in the head by an ICE agent. DHS said she tried to ram the agent with her vehicle. Video later refuted that account. A former federal agent in a separate Minneapolis case was charged with assault and filing a false police report. No ICE agent has been criminally charged in connection with any of the fatal immigration enforcement shootings.
Nine deaths. Zero criminal charges. The pattern is documented.
🇺🇸 What American readers need to know: A man authorized to work in the United States was shot and killed by ICE in Maine this morning. He was not the target. No body cameras. No statement from DHS. The senator who voted against requiring those cameras is calling for an investigation. This is the ninth ICE-related death since January 20, 2025. No ICE agent has been criminally charged in any of them.
Sources: CNN live updates (US — “NOT the target of the warrant” King correction confirmed, Ring camera 7:17 a.m. confirmed, four bullet holes Kia confirmed, AG “in direction of officer” confirmed, July 13); NBC News (US — 26-year-old Colombian man confirmed, authorized to work confirmed, Social Security number confirmed, Collins “full impartial investigation” confirmed, King “two years ago” quote verbatim confirmed, “possibly in 45 days” confirmed, July 13); Portland Press Herald / Boston Globe live updates (US — Poulin security footage confirmed, SUV banging car confirmed, Collins’ Biddeford office protests confirmed, July 13); Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition (primary — victim identity confirmed, community member confirmed, family contact confirmed, July 13); Maine Beacon (US, centre-left — Collins April vote confirmed, 50-48 vote confirmed, no body cameras/no judicial warrants/no oversight confirmed, $70 billion confirmed, April 23 2026); Wikipedia / List of shootings by US immigration agents (secondary — 38 shootings/9 deaths confirmed, no criminal charges pattern confirmed, AP July 10 passenger window detail confirmed, July 2026)
THE CHECKPOINT
There is a checkpoint at the entrance to Deir ‘Ammar village in the Ramallah governorate of the West Bank. It is staffed intermittently by Israeli forces. On July 5, a Palestinian family arrived at that checkpoint. They were trying to take their four-month-old baby to a hospital.
Israeli forces kept the gate closed. They had been informed of the medical emergency, according to OCHA. They kept the gate closed anyway. They fired tear gas canisters and sound grenades at Palestinians who gathered at the checkpoint. The family eventually carried the infant on foot through the back of the crossing to an ambulance waiting on the other side. Because the southern road gate was closed and Palestinian passage is not permitted through the two northern checkpoints, the ambulance was forced to take a 40-kilometre detour to reach a hospital in Ramallah. The infant was pronounced dead at the hospital.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs documented this case in its Humanitarian Situation Report published July 10, 2026. It is a primary UN document. OCHA also documented the broader context: the gate at Deir ‘Ammar had been continuously closed since February 28, 2026 — the same day the war with Iran began. For more than four months, the 12,000 Palestinians in the surrounding communities were connected to the rest of the West Bank through a single remaining access route that included a three-kilometre dirt track. OCHA noted the gate was reopened on July 9, four days after the family was turned away.
This is the Gaza and West Bank picture OCHA documented for the week of June 30 to July 8:
In Gaza, 44 Palestinians were killed and 85 were injured. This brings the total since the ceasefire of October 10, 2025 to 1,084 killed and 3,491 injured. Israeli military operations near the Yellow Line have followed the same pattern for three consecutive days: families forced from their shelters each morning ahead of advancing tanks, returning only in the afternoon after the military withdraws. Approximately 2,500 people are staying in the affected area, many unable to leave. Shelter assistance fell by 37 percent from May to June due to funding shortfalls. More than 243,000 disease consultations were recorded by Health Cluster partners at 206 surveillance sites in one week. More than one in five consultations was linked to a reportable infectious disease. More than 18,000 cases of chickenpox, ectoparasite infestation, and impetigo were recorded. Approximately 700 patients requiring dialysis are at risk due to shortages of critical consumables. Insulin-dependent patients have been forced to switch from pens to vials due to medicine shortages, increasing the risk of dosing errors. On July 8, a driver working for World Central Kitchen’s logistics partner was killed by Israeli forces while transporting goods from the Kerem Shalom crossing to a WCK warehouse inside Gaza. The movement had been coordinated with Israeli authorities.
In the West Bank, 16 Palestinian children have been killed in 2026. More than 3,200 Palestinians have been displaced so far this year by settler attacks and demolitions — an average of 17 people per day, nearly double the daily rate recorded between 2023 and 2025. More than 1,200 incidents involving Israeli settlers have been documented in 2026, averaging six per day. Forty-six Palestinian communities have been fully displaced since January 2023. Ten of them were displaced in 2026.
🌍 TRANSLATOR’S NOTE: OCHA is not an advocacy organization. It is the United Nations’ own coordinating body for humanitarian response in crisis zones. The Humanitarian Situation Report published July 10 is a primary document written by UN staff working inside Gaza and the West Bank. The 4-month-old baby at the Deir ‘Ammar checkpoint is documented in that report as a case study, with precise times, distances, and actions by Israeli forces described in the same clinical language OCHA uses for all its documentation. The WCK driver killed July 8 was killed in a movement coordinated with the Israeli authorities. The shelter assistance drop of 37 percent is caused by funding shortfalls, not by a shortage of need. These are not characterizations or interpretations. They are what the UN observed and documented. The rest of the world reads OCHA reports. American media rarely covers them.
🇺🇸 What American readers need to know: A four-month-old Palestinian baby died after Israeli forces kept a checkpoint gate closed during a medical emergency. The UN documented it. There is a ceasefire in place in Gaza. Under it, 1,084 Palestinians have been killed. A WCK driver was killed while transporting food aid in a movement coordinated with Israeli forces. Thirty-seven percent fewer Palestinian families received shelter assistance in June than in May. The UN is watching all of it. Writing it down. Publishing it.
Sources: OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report 10 July 2026 (UN primary — 4-month-old infant death confirmed, 25-minute delay confirmed, tear gas confirmed, 40km detour confirmed, gate reopened July 9 confirmed, 44 killed/85 injured June 30-July 8 confirmed, 1,084 total since ceasefire confirmed, tank pattern three consecutive days confirmed, 2,500 people affected confirmed, shelter 37% drop confirmed, 243,000 disease consultations confirmed, 18,000+ chickenpox/parasites/impetigo confirmed, 700 dialysis patients at risk confirmed, WCK driver July 8 confirmed, 3,200 displaced West Bank 2026 confirmed, 17/day average confirmed, 16 children killed West Bank confirmed, 1,200+ settler incidents confirmed, 46 communities fully displaced confirmed, July 10 2026)
THE BLOCKADE RETURNS
Effective Tuesday at 4 p.m. Eastern Time, the United States will reinstate its naval blockade of ships going to and from Iranian ports.
CENTCOM confirmed the announcement Monday. It is the second US naval blockade of Iran. The first ran from April 13 to June 18, until it was lifted as part of the MOU signed at Versailles. That MOU is now, in Trump’s own words, effectively finished. “Memorandums of understanding when you’re dealing with sleazebags don’t mean much,” Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt Monday. “It didn’t mean much.”
Also Monday, Trump proposed that the United States charge commercial shippers a 20 percent toll on the value of their cargo to transit the Strait of Hormuz. The US would act, in his words, as the “guardian” of the Strait. At current oil prices, that toll would amount to roughly $32 million for a single supertanker. Secretary of State Rubio, during a visit to Gulf states just two weeks ago, repeatedly described the idea of charging tolls on the Strait as “not even workable.” He has not commented on Trump’s proposal.
Iran is already claiming the Strait for itself, demanding ships obtain Iranian authorization before transiting the northern corridor. The US says the Strait is an international waterway and no authorization or toll is required. Both countries are now proposing to charge ships to transit the same waterway. They are proposing different fees, to different authorities, for the same passage.
Six commercial vessels transited the Strait in the past 24 hours. Before the war, the daily average was 110. Brent crude rose to $83.26, up more than $5 from this morning's open, as markets priced in the blockade reinstatement.
The structural problem the MOU never resolved is now on the surface: Clause 5 of the agreement said Iran “will make arrangements using its best efforts for the safe passage of commercial vessels, with no charge for 60 days only, from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman, and vice versa.” Iran interpreted this as giving it sole authority over the strait’s administration. The United States interpreted it as a commitment to keep ships safe. Both readings are arguably defensible from the text. Neither side ever agreed on which one was correct.
The MOU was signed on June 17. Both sides have now declared it functionally over.
🌍 TRANSLATOR’S NOTE: Al Jazeera published an analysis piece Monday — “Why the Iran-US ceasefire is falling apart” — that documented the Clause 5 dispute in precise textual terms. The international press reading of the MOU collapse is not that one side acted in bad faith. It is that the agreement was structurally ambiguous on its central question: who controls the Strait? That ambiguity was left unresolved at Versailles because resolving it would have required one side to accept the other’s core position — and neither would. What has happened since is the consequence of leaving that question open. The rest of the world’s energy press is covering this as a pricing event — Brent above $83 with the blockade reinstated, a 20% toll proposal on the table, and six ships a day where 110 used to transit. The market is not confused about what is happening. It is pricing it.
🇺🇸 What American readers need to know: The US is reinstating its naval blockade of Iranian ports starting tomorrow. Trump wants to charge ships 20% of their cargo value to transit the Strait of Hormuz, which his own Secretary of State called unworkable two weeks ago. Iran wants to charge ships a different fee for a different authorization on the same passage. Six ships transited the Strait today. Brent is at $83.26. The MOU “didn’t mean much.”
Sources: CNN live blog (US — blockade reinstated Tuesday 4 p.m. ET confirmed, CENTCOM confirmed, 20% toll confirmed, Trump “sleazebags” quote verbatim confirmed, Trump “guardian of Strait” confirmed, Trump “didn’t mean much” confirmed, Rubio “not even workable” confirmed, six vessels confirmed, July 13); Al Jazeera (Qatar, state-funded/editorially independent — Clause 5 text confirmed, Iran “sole responsibility” interpretation confirmed, vessel traffic lowest five weeks confirmed, analysis “Why ceasefire is falling apart” confirmed, July 13); CNBC (US — $32 million supertanker toll calculation confirmed, Oman transit fees legal constraints confirmed, Iran accused US pressuring Oman confirmed, first blockade April 13-June 18 confirmed, July 13)
WAR DAY 136 | NUMBERS AT PUBLICATION
🇮🇷 Iran: 3,485+ killed (tracker base of 3,468 as of June 10 per Al Jazeera live tracker, plus at least 17 confirmed killed in US strikes July 9-10 per Iran Health Ministry — floor estimate; strikes July 11-13 casualties not yet confirmed at publication time)
🇱🇧 Lebanon: 4,321 killed (Al Jazeera live blog, updated July 8) 🇮🇱 Israel: 35+ killed (tracker frozen June 10)
🌍 Gulf states/Iraq: 131 killed — tracker frozen June 10; does not reflect Iranian strikes on Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, UAE, and Oman this weekend
🇺🇸 US military: 13 killed, 381 injured (Al Jazeera live tracker, last updated June 10 — does not reflect ongoing strikes)
🛢️ Brent crude: $83.26/barrel (OilPrice.com — up sharply from this morning’s $77.77)
⛽ US national gas average: $3.87/gallon (AAA — pump prices will follow)
Sourcing note: All war casualty figures sourced to the Al Jazeera live tracker, last updated June 10, 2026, except Lebanon, updated July 8. Iran Health Ministry confirmed at least 17 additional killed and 115 wounded in US strikes July 9-10 — not yet reflected in tracker. Strikes July 11-13 casualties not yet confirmed at publication time. Gulf states/Iraq tracker does not reflect Iranian strikes across the Gulf this week. All figures are floor estimates. Methodology differs between sources; figures are not directly comparable.
“Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1789
