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Another innocent life taken by ICE violence.

Mario David Coronado Juárez will never see his children grow up.

For seven years, he worked tirelessly as a construction worker in the U.S. to support his family in Guatemala.

He had committed no crime, yet ICE agents chased him in an unmarked vehicle without identifying themselves. Fearing the worst, Coronado Juárez attempted to flee, but a fatal crash took his life.

Scattered among the debris as the site of his death were receipts indicating money transfers to his family in Guatemala.

"He was a good father," said his wife.

In July, Trump briefly halted ICE traffic stops after the brutal and unjustifiable murders of fathers Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

That halt lasted all of one day.

Now ICE traffic stops, which are typically conducted in unmarked vehicles with no indication that the drivers are even ICE agents, continue to claim the lives of innocent people like Coronado Juárez.

This was a murder.

Mario David Coronado Juárez did nothing wrong. His life was dedicated to improving the lives of his family. He had a wife and three children who are now experiencing unthinkable grief.

The Hispanic Center of Western Michigan is raising money to support his family during this tragedy.

You can contribute at givebutter.com/community-support-for-the-juarez-family

LaSalle Corrections, the operator of the Winn concentration camp in Louisiana, had every opportunity to provide Carlos Josué Marchena-Marchena the insulin, consistent food, and water that he needed to live.

But they didn't.

Now a brother, partner, and father of four is dead.

Before his death on Sept 18, Marchena told his sister that no one was checking on his blood sugar levels.

Marchena had Type 1 diabetes. Without consistent insulin, meals, blood sugar monitoring, and water, Type 1 diabetes can be fatal.

Before his death, he told his sister, Francini Marchena, that he had chest pain -- which requires emergency medical care. Not that he received any.

She said he had also not been provided adequate food or water, which can cause a life-threatening condition called diabetic ketoacidosis.

"He asked for water and they ignored him and they didn't want to give him water, they gave him the minimum amount of food and had handcuffed his feet and hands. He expressed to us that a foot had swollen and there were moments where he already felt that he could not do it anymore and said that he needed water because his sight was already clouding, obviously it was because he was already lacking insulin in the body. He needed his medicine," said his sister (AmeliaRueda.com).

The day before he died, he had stomach pain, headaches, and chills, according the man held captive in the adjacent cell. He also said that Marchena was vomiting, 'pale purple and wet with sweat' (NBC).

Hours before his death, Marchena called his girlfriend and told her he felt unwell.

His sister said he had requested bail and voluntary deportation to Costa Rica.

Relatives in Costa Rica had expected him to return within a few weeks, and had already bought him clothes for his arrival.

But ICE denied his request for voluntary deportation. Even after his family spent $15,000 on lawyers.

Marchena was a brother, partner, and father of four.

He came to the U.S. during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, searching for opportunity.

"He left because he didn't have a job and he needed to eat, he wanted to overcome and he got the chance to go there. He did not enter illegally, he entered normally via the land border and was in the process of applying for asylum," said his sister.

He worked as a ride share driver and had a valid work permit, not that it matters.

Nobody deserves to be caged by ICE in conditions designed to kill.

The State of Texas plans to execute Ker'Sean Ramey tomorrow despite a lack of conclusive evidence that he was even guilty of the crime he has spent half his life in jail for.

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In 2005, three people were murdered during a botched robbery in Edna, Texas. While Ker'Sean Ramey was present at the scene of the crime, there is no conclusive evidence that he was the shooter.

During his trial, Black jurors were systemically excluded from the jury. The State also presented a false testimony, and Mr. Ramey's trial attorney, who wasn't even a full time lawyer, failed to conduct his own investigation or provide witnesses.

Now, the Jackson County Criminal Attorney's Office is withholding documents that may be crucial to his defense.

Even the Texas Attorney General ordered those documents to be released last week, but his legal team has yet to receive them.

Texas plans to executive him tomorrow anyway.

Now only the Supreme Court and Texas Governor Greg Abbott can prevent the scheduled ex*****on of Mr. Ramey tomorrow.

The Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (TCADP), is asking that people call Governor Abbott today and/or tomorrow and urge him to grant a 30-day reprieve for Mr. Ramey.

📲 Call Governor Abbott:
▶️ (512) 463-1782 and/or
▶️ (512)-463-2000

✍️ Leave a message online:
gov.texas.gov/apps/contact/opinion
(under Issues, select “Criminal Law and Justice")

TCADP has provided this script for your calls/messages:

“Hello. I am calling today to urge Governor Abbott to issue a 30-day reprieve to Ker’Sean Ramey. Mr. Ramey faces ex*****on on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, even though the Jackson County Criminal District Attorney’s Office has withheld documents that are potentially crucial to his defense.

It is incumbent on the Governor to do everything in his power to stop this ex*****on. Mr. Ramey’s attorneys must have time to analyze these critical files, which they still have not obtained despite a directive from the Texas Attorney General. Thank you for your time and attention to this serious matter.”

In a blatant act of retaliation, ICE has deported the mother of 17-year-old Luis Ochoa, who spoke up after ICE assaulted her son on his way to enlist in the Marines.

ICE agents punched his friend in the face four times, along with pepper-spraying Ochoa and breaking his wrist, after the boys filmed ICE kidnapping parents near an elementary school.

After speaking up on behalf of her son, Teresa Ochoa Briseño was detained at her workplace by ICE yesterday and deported to Mexico within hours.

"He is a minor; it's traumatic enough for an adult - for something like this to happen to him is really tough," she had told KRGV after the assault. "Justice must be served - and it must be served against the officers who beat them."

Her attorney, Carlos Garcia, said it was difficult to believe the timing of her deportation was unrelated to her speaking out in defense of her son.

“That’s too big a coincidence to believe that she is detained just a week after her United States citizen child was unlawfully detained and arrested,” he said.

“In this country we cherish the First Amendment and believe that we have a right to speak out against injustice, but this is a clear message about what the repercussions are for people who decide to speak out,” Garcia continued.

Assaulting a U.S. citizen child on his way to sign up to serve his country apparently wasn't enough.

ICE also chose to rip his mother away from him.

On Sunday, Wilber Garces Perez was in the middle of a DoorDash delivery in Austin when ICE agents failed to identify themselves then rammed him off the road and shot him.

One bullet went into Garces’ back.

ICE is now trying to deport Garces to prevent him from testifying as a key witness in a lawsuit against ICE's use of force.

However, Garces' lawyer, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, announced today that a federal judge has granted her emergency order to keep Garces in the country temporarily.

This temporary block on his deportation will last through the first hearing in this case, which is scheduled for Sept 30th.

In the meantime, Garces is enduring cruel treatment within ICE captivity. He was removed from the hospital after just nine hours -- even though torso gunshot wounds usually mean at least a week-long hospital stay.

During his brief stay at the hospital, his wife was denied the chance to see him.

Since then, Garces has been forced to sleep on the floor and has not been given any pain medication. Yesterday, he told the media he was still actively bleeding.

Garces is in a lot of pain, and ICE is denying him even an ounce of proper medical care. That bullet is still lodged in his chest.

Yesterday, an Austin man was shot in the back by an ICE agent who did not identify himself.

Now he is in ICE captivity, with that bullet still lodged in his torso.

Wilber Garces Perez was in the middle of a DoorDash delivery when the agent opened fire on him in broad daylight.

Two additional bullets entered his Corolla from the driver's side window, then exited through the windshield -- indicating that the ICE agent was to the side of the vehicle when he opened fire.

Gunshot wounds to the torso usually mean a week or more in a hospital bed, but Garces was released straight into ICE captivity after just 9 hours.

The hospital refused to let his wife see him or give her updates on his medical status, and as of this writing his family reportedly does not know where he is.

A man with fresh gunshot wounds needs sustained medical care, and handing him to ICE after 9 hours is a decision somebody should have to defend under oath.

Congressman Greg Casar, who represents Austin, flagged another danger here.

If DHS deports Garces, then the key witness to this shooting vanishes along with the government's problem.

The Travis County DA is calling for an independent investigation.

Meanwhile, DHS has yet to release a statement, which is atypical.

The department usually issues a statement within hours of an ICE shooting -- with the intent of absolving their agents of any blame before all the facts arise.

At the Dilley concentration camp in Texas, children and their families are held captive in cruel conditions for months or even years on end.

Not a single person inside that facility has a criminal record.

At Dilley, children are denied emergency medical care even when on the 'brink of death.'

The food is infested with worms and mold.
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The camp banned video calls with the outside world after public backlash about the conditions inside.

Letters written by children read, “Help, please!” in shaky handwriting.
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Children burning up, struggling to breathe, waking up screaming, bedwetting, no longer talking, facing anxiety and depression they'd never had before. Guards yelling at children, snatching toys. Sweltering heat.
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And right now, a dangerous Covid-19 outbreak is spreading inside the camp.

What is CoreCivic doing?

Denying the children and their families water.

Trying to fight a respiratory virus without hydration is extremely dangerous. Especially for children, who do not have strong immune systems.

According to reports received by La Colectiva NTX, not only is CoreCivic denying water (a basic human right)...

Machinery also recently exploded inside the facility.

Metal and oil debris spewed onto people’s skin.

It is just one example of how CoreCivic endangers the lives of everyone inside Dilley.

Juan Nicolás, a two-month-old infant, choked on his own vomit and became unresponsive due to bronchitis and RSV. CoreCivic denied him medical care. ICE later cruelly dropped him and his family off on the other side of the U.S.-Mexico border-- while he was still gravely ill.
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A five-year-old went almost two weeks without a bowel movement. CoreCivic did nothing.
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Another girl, just one-year-old, nearly died from untreated pneumonia, Covid-19, RSV and respiratory distress that had worsened over several weeks. Only when she was on the ‘brink of death’ was she brought to a hospital, where she needed to stay for 10 days.
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What does CoreCivic’s CEO, Patrick Swindle, say about Dilley?

"We are confident that the detention beds that we provide are the most humane, most efficient logistically, most compliant, most secure, are readily available and provide the best value to the government."

ICE's five-day occupation of Indiana resulted in 426 people kidnapped, leaving hundreds of devastated and separated families.

The overwhelming majority of those people have absolutely no criminal record.

In fact, ICE's recent press release boasting their arrest numbers highlighted only six people with criminal convictions.

ICE sent the hundreds of Hoosiers arrested during the surge to DHS concentration camps with rampant medical neglect, inhumane conditions, inedible food, and contaminated water.

Many were sent to the Miami Correctional Facility north of Indianapolis, where two people have already died from neglected medical emergencies this year.

Others were sent to the North Lake Processing Center in Michigan, where earlier this year hundreds of people made the courageous and dangerous choice to go on hunger strike, in protest of North Lake violating their rights. Individuals in one unit were seen holding ‘SOS’ signs up to their windows.

ICE's recent surge in Indiana forced over 400 more people into these horrific conditions, arbitrarily without any due process.

In the week leading up to the surge, the number of ICE flights departing from Indianapolis Airport more than doubled -- presumably to increase detention capacity ahead of the operation.

And while families spent a week scared to go outside, attend school or work, or even get essential supplies... The Indiana State Police cashed in.

ACLU Indiana reported that ISP is receiving $30 million in federal dollars to increase surveillance and collude with ICE's efforts.

The $30 million program will operate for 3-5 years across every county in Indiana. It seeks to expand 287(g) agreements, increase arrests, and gather intelligence on civilians. It's part of a larger trend of intense collaboration between ICE and the State of Indiana.

According to ACLU Indiana, the state's new law SEA 76 forces local governments and jails to cooperate with ICE under threat of punishment from the attorney general for non-compliance.

They also reported that Indiana State Police has at least 185 troopers "trained" and certified by ICE.

ICE is beating American teenagers and mocking them while they do it.

Two 17-year-old children in Alamo, Texas, got in the car last week to hand in their enlistment papers for the Marines.

Both are American citizens.

(Not that it should matter -- no one should be physically assaulted by ICE, regardless of citizenship status).

On the way to enlist, they stopped to film ICE agents kidnapping parents outside an elementary school, and that decision got them pepper-sprayed and beaten.

Video shows agents dragging one of the boys from the car and punching him in the face over and over while he lay on the pavement.

The teens told the agents they were citizens.

The answer they got back was, "I don't give a damn. Your parents can't help you now."

Now DHS is calling them 'anti-ICE agitators' -- despite them making absolutely no effort to resist the arrest or physical assault. Even though their decision to record agents was completely constitutional.

The two of them were held captive for nearly eight hours before ICE let them go.

Neither one plans to enlist anymore, and one of the teens’ mothers asked the question that should haunt every official in Washington.

"How are they supposed to serve a country that will not uphold their basic rights?"

An agent who pins a bleeding teenager to the pavement and says "I don't give a damn" about his citizenship is a man certain he will never face consequences.

Nobody in this administration will discipline the agents who threw those punches.

Secretary Mullin runs an agency so far off the leash that its agents beat citizen children on camera and expect nothing to come of it.

Secretary Hegseth runs a military hemorrhaging recruits while the administration he serves drives away the willing few.

Between the two of them, unchecked violence and cruelty have merged into a single policy.

A policy where beating up literal children for practicing their constitutional rights is just another Friday.

State-sanctioned child abuse.

A young child, unable to hug their parent for months on end.

A father, unable to feel his baby's first kicks.

A family, unable to hug their loved one goodbye before they're deported without due process.

That is the cruel reality for families with loved ones being held at the California City Detention Center.

A recent report by Victoria Valenzuela (TRUTHOUT) has revealed that CoreCivic banned all contact visits there.

It is the only one in the state of California to do so.

Meaning that children can only see their parents through plexiglass.

That fathers cannot hold their newborn babies.

That when a loved one has a terminal illness, they don't even get to hug goodbye.

Many families have no way to connect with their loved ones beyond pricey phone calls -- which cost between 7 and 25 cents per minute, or up to $15 per hour.

(And the majority of the people held captive by ICE in these cruel facilities have no criminal record.)

At least seven dorms within the camp have written letters to the warden asking for him to bring back contact visits.

The broader California City communities are also pushing back -- and so can you.

A campaign called Hugs Beyond Bars has collected over 1,200 signatures calling for the immediate reinstatement of contact visits.

✍️ Add your name: hugsbeyondbars.org

Learn how else to take action: cijustice.org

Hugs Beyond Bars is a collaborative campaign between California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, Rapid Response Network of Kern, and more.