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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Eric Garcia

AOC calls out Susan Collins’ claims about ICE after deadly Maine shooting of innocent man: ‘Wrote the blank check’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) pushed back on claims by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) that she included safeguards for Immigration and Customs Enforcement after ICE shot and killed a man in Biddeford on Monday.

She was speaking after ICE shot and killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero shortly after 7 a.m in Biddeford. Guerrero was authorized to work in the United States. Witnesses to the shooting said that a distressed family yelled “you took her dad” alongside a child who “couldn’t have been older than three” still in her Bluey pajamas, the Portland Press Herald reported on Monday.

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