First we were told that Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero was evading arrest. Then we learned that ICE had given a gun to an unprepared and dangerously unsuited man and put him in a position to kill. The latest edition of Huddled Masses from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4hIlHDa
Adrian Carrasquillo
@adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social
Author, Huddled Masses for The Bulwark. The guy who told you Latino voters mattered before it was cool. ✍🏽 in Vanity Fair, POLITICO Mag, Rolling Stone, The Guardian Subscribe ➡️ https://www.thebulwark.com/s/huddled-masses
“ICE is lying. They’re not telling the truth, and we need to uncover the truth.” @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social examines two deadly ICE shootings, the false stories that followed, and why the agency no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt.
Transmission of cancer in fish. Really interesting article. #GiftArticle www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/s...
Deep in This Lake, a Contagious Cancer Is Spreading (Gift Article)
Transmissible tumors have been reported in a handful of animal species, but never before among fish. Is it possible in humans?
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"Given the groundswell of outrage...it’s hard to look at these claims as anything other than an attempt to concoct a post-hoc pretext for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's murder." ICYMI @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social:
Shoot First, Smear Later
Killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo wasn’t enough—now comes the Trump administration’s campaign to assassinate his character.
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🚨NEW from me: Shoot First, Smear Later On the Trump administration trying to say Lorenzo Salgado Araujo who ICE killed had meth on him. His lawyer: It’s a homemade electrolyte mix to do the backbreaking house construction work he did www.thebulwark.com/p/shoot-firs... via @thebulwark.com
Shoot First, Smear Later
Killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo wasn’t enough—now comes the Trump administration’s campaign to assassinate his character.
thebulwark.com
@adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social on Trump overturning a DHS decision to pause vehicle stops: "That's how you end up with two dead dads."
Johan’s Sebastian Guerrero’s wife’s post is gutting; I love you my handsome, my life I love you, I don’t have words for this pain my life you’re my everything love take care of me help me have the strength I love you my life accompany me everywhere always don’t leave me alone I ask you my love
ICE killed two Latino fathers in less than a week. @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social looks at what happened to Johan Sebastian Guerrero and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and at the families and children they left behind.
"ICE officers believed they would better serve the interest of public safety by shooting Guerrero than by letting him drive away in the coastal Maine city of 22,000 people." That's their story, anyway. @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social on the ICE shootings:
ICE’s New Permanent Family Separation: Killing Latino Fathers
Another week, another ICE killing, another family torn apart.
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NEW from me: ICE’s New Permanent Family Separation: Killing Latino Fathers www.thebulwark.com/p/unimaginab... via @thebulwark.com
Another man shot and killed by ICE. Another family is left demanding answers. @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social reports on what we know about the latest fatal ICE shooting in Maine.
The third death during immigration enforcement in a week.
NEW: A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.
@adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: "He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
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"Ronaldo said he wants his father to be remembered as a fan of the Mexican national team and as a man who sat on his porch every evening after work petting his dog and looking out in satisfaction at the life he’d built in this country" @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/radl...
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s death wasn’t a tragedy. It never needed happen. And as with the others like him, I suspect we’ll at some point see the evidence that it was a crime. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s death wasn’t a tragedy. It never needed happen. And as with the others like him, I suspect we’ll at some point see the evidence that it was a crime. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...
He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
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Instead of hearing from law enforcement officers or the hospital, Ronaldo Salgado learned of his father's death through social media videos. “I recognized him immediately: not from his appearance, but from his voice crying in the street as he was bleeding out" via @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social
He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
thebulwark.com
Tom Homan DIAF pendejo. "One witness told the Washington Post that he heard a man—Lorenzo—gurgling and shouting “Me estan matando”—they’re killing me, a haunting echo of “I can’t breathe,” the final words of Eric Garner and George Floyd, two others killed by law enforcement."
NEW from me: He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h... via @thebulwark.com
My colleague @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social works hard to tell stories that put front and center the humanity of the people being targeted by Trump's mass deportation regime. It was important to Adrian to start this piece with a focus not on Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's death but on the life he built.👇
NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...
NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...
He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
thebulwark.com
“Today is the first day without him for all of us, and it is heartbreaking to know that my mom did not make lunch for my dad before going to work—the first time in their 30+ year marriage.” Heartbreaking as told via @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
open.substack.com
NEW from me: He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h... via @thebulwark.com
He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
thebulwark.com
This is disgusting Former Afghan ally who died in ICE custody suffered an allergic reaction, death certificate says apnews.com/article/afgh... via @thebulwark.com
Former Afghan ally who died in ICE custody suffered an allergic reaction, death certificate says
A death certificate shows an Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces died from an allergic reaction while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, one day after he was detained.
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"Happy July Fourth! Who’s ready for some forced sterilizations? Sorry. Let me explain." Explaining the nuttery, of course, only goes so far, but @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social gives it a shot in the latest edition of Huddled Masses: lnk.thebulwark.com/4eXjmBp
My colleague @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social knew MAGA would react badly to the birthright ruling But even he didn’t expect the “cuckoo-bananas” response he saw He wrote about it here app.thebulwark.com/204799481/co...
MAGA Goes Batshit Over SCOTUS Birthright Citizenship Ruling
Trump allies call for deranged misogynistic crackdowns, while immigrants still fear for their families.
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@adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: “All of these people are now at risk of deportation. If we only account for TPS holders from El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti, that’s still a “quarter million people who have been here since last century,” Schulte added.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Trump Lost on Birthright Citizenship. But He’s Winning the Immigration Wars.
SCOTUS rejected his brazen constitutional gambit—but cleared the way for potentially the largest revocation of legal immigration status in American history.
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🚨 Send me your SCOTUS immigration questions! If you’ve got any questions on the birthright citizenship ruling, the TPS ruling, or the decision on asylum seekers at the border, reply to this post. I'll answer them this week with Ben Parker and immigration experts on Bulwark Takes.
SCOTUS rejected Trump's brazen constitutional gambit—but cleared the way for potentially the largest revocation of legal immigration status in American history. Read the latest Huddled Masses from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social now.
"Four Supreme Court justices were willing to state that they do not believe birthright citizenship is enshrined in the Constitution—a fact that would have shocked most legal scholars not too long ago." A clear warning from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Trump Lost on Birthright Citizenship. But He’s Winning the Immigration Wars.
SCOTUS rejected his brazen constitutional gambit—but cleared the way for potentially the largest revocation of legal immigration status in American history.
open.substack.com
The World Cup ad in the form of the famous GOLLLLLLLLLLL! call is just one example of Talarico trying to get Latino voters into the fold 👇🏽
¡TALARICOOOOOOOOO! ICYMI, the latest "Huddled Masses" from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: