What To Know
- Ana Navarro condemned recent fatal ICE shootings in Maine and Texas.
- She criticized the lack of accountability and transparency.
- Navarro urged the public to recognize the human impact of these incidents and to demand change.
Following fatal shootings of civilians involving ICE agents in Maine and Texas, both of which occurred while the agents were not wearing body cameras, Whoopi Goldberg had a pointed message for border czar Tom Homan on the Tuesday, July 14, episode of The View.
“They stand and lie like we’re stupid. We know better. We know that we funded you. We know that you got the money. Where are the cameras, man?!” Goldberg said.
On the Wednesday, July 16 episode of Behind the Table podcast hosted by Brian Teta, The View cohost Ana Navarro also weighed in on the ICE shootings and the Trump administration’s response. Sharing her scathing reaction, Navarro did not hold back.
When Teta asked what she wanted people to understand about the stories that they might not already know, Navarro delivered an impassioned response, arguing that the public needs to pay closer attention to the human impact of the administration’s policies.
“So many things. First of all, the people that have gotten killed were not criminals. I had this debate yesterday on CNN because the Trumpers want to justify this by calling them criminals,” said an exasperated Navarro. “These last two executions — because I’m going to call them executions by government agents of ICE — were people with no criminal records. This last one in Maine, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian national, he had a work permit. If you have a work permit, it means you are here under some sort of legal status.”
“He had a three-year-old baby girl in the back of the car, in her Bluey pajamas and pink backpack. He was going to work,” explained Navarro. “Every single case has been egregious, and there have been more than seven of them. Names we should all know, because we shouldn’t just look at these executions as statistics. These are people that had names, had lives, had families, had work, had people who loved them. That had children, that had a future, that had a right to exist and not be executed in the streets of America.”
“I want people to go look at the names, go research the stories. I want people to remember this when it comes to November,” Navarro said sadly. “We cannot be a country where the government gets to kill with impunity.”
“There has been no accountability. The man who died in Texas, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, they wouldn’t even release the body to the family,” Navarro told Teta.
“We’ve had over seven people killed since Trump took office,” said Navarro. “We have over 50 who have died in ICE custody! There are human beings! But let’s focus on these last two, which happened within a week of each other. That in itself is shocking.”
“You would think that if they were under such a spotlight and under such pressure with the investigation with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, they would be more deliberate and they would try to avoid doing exactly the same thing, if not worse, within a week in Maine. But they didn’t, which tells you that these ICE agents don’t give a damn.”
“They pumped four bullets into this man’s head through the windshield of his car with his baby girl sitting in the back seat and witnessing this. Then they dragged this man, his limp, bloodied body out of the car, and they had the gall, the indignity of handcuffing this man as he was either dead or dying,” yelled Navarro. “Why do you need to handcuff a corpse other than to humiliate even further, to dehumanize even further?”
She then asked the pointed question, “I just want to know how many more mothers and fathers, how many more humans need to be executed by the government of the United States before the people of this country rise up and say no more?”
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