The Ben Shapiro Show - July 14, 2026


ICE Shooting in Maine: What We Actually Know


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A man who was in the country illegally was shot and killed by ICE agents in Maine on Saturday morning. Demonstrators immediately turned on Sen. Susan Collins, D-Maine, and demanded she resign. Meanwhile, ICE announced a new policy shift.

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00:00:00.000 Over the weekend, there was another encounter with ICE in Maine.
00:00:03.000 It seems to be a kind of similar situation to the killing of Renee Good in Minnesota earlier this year.
00:00:07.000 So, right on cue, the left wing started blaming notorious political moderate Susan Collins and marching on the streets and in her office and such. 0.85
00:00:15.000 The Abolish Ice Brigade has not gone away. 0.63
00:00:17.000 They literally want to get rid of the border. 0.83
00:00:19.000 And Democrats mainly agree with this.
00:00:22.000 It's just going to become more and more mainstream from here.
00:00:24.000 People are going crazy over a shooting that happened up in Maine.
00:00:28.000 According to CBS News, the Department of Homeland Security. Says that a man who was in the country illegally attempted to flee the scene when ICE tried to stop him around 7 a.m. Eastern Time over the weekend.
00:00:40.000 And fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon.
00:00:43.000 This person later died from the injuries.
00:00:46.000 Apparently, ICE agents encountered the man while conducting targeted surveillance on the last known address of an illegal alien with a final order of removal.
00:00:54.000 So apparently, he was a 26 year old from Columbia.
00:00:58.000 Apparently, the senator from Maine, Angus King, who's an independent who coxes with the Democrats, said the person who was killed was not the person they were seeking.
00:01:07.000 The agents were not wearing body cameras at the time.
00:01:11.000 The perpetrator's car, apparently, he was trying to drive away.
00:01:14.000 There were bullet holes through the windshield.
00:01:15.000 So, DHS is claiming that this person had weaponized his car.
00:01:20.000 You can see the bullet holes through the windshield, very reminiscent of the death of Renee Good.
00:01:26.000 Protesters immediately gathered in Maine, and then they tried to break into Susan Collins' office.
00:01:30.000 There will be an attempt to weaponize this particular terrible situation to attack Susan Collins and suggest that she, of course, is the problem.
00:01:40.000 I don't know.
00:01:41.000 You guys can go arrest the killer or not?
00:01:43.000 You can arrest the criminal?
00:01:45.000 Are you guys going to go arrest the murderer down the street?
00:01:49.000 I got to do your jobs?
00:01:51.000 Is this private property?
00:01:55.000 Yeah, just private property?
00:01:56.000 Is that a public forum?
00:01:58.000 You guys sleep at night.
00:02:08.000 You help her out.
00:02:19.000 Okay, so again, you can see these delightful people.
00:02:22.000 They're going to try to make the case that Susan Collins needs to go because of what happened with ICE.
00:02:27.000 The Democrats increasingly keep embracing radical policy positions.
00:02:31.000 Senator Ruben Gallego, who for some odd reason is friends with every sex offender in the Senate candidate pool, he's apparently defending Graham Platter, but also he was a good friend of Eric Swalwell.
00:02:42.000 No idea that Eric Swalwell was a derelict.
00:02:45.000 In any case, Senator Ruben Gallego, he confirmed with Mehdi Hassan that he wants to abolish ICE, but he won't say the words abolish ICE because he likes winning.
00:02:54.000 What we know of ICE cannot exist anymore.
00:02:56.000 You can have immigration enforcement.
00:02:58.000 You can do it in a professionalized manner, not in the type of exploitive manner that you see it right now.
00:03:03.000 But you don't want to say abolish ICE because you think that sends a bad message.
00:03:08.000 Yeah, because I want to win elections.
00:03:09.000 Fair.
00:03:10.000 I mean, you are.
00:03:11.000 But in terms of English language, you are calling for the abolition of ICE and replacing it with something else better.
00:03:16.000 Yeah, replacing still with something else that's immigration enforcement.
00:03:20.000 Now, it turns out that ICE is in fact shifting its policy.
00:03:22.000 So the administration does not like all these headlines.
00:03:25.000 They don't like them.
00:03:25.000 Now, let's be clear about this.
00:03:27.000 These headlines wouldn't be happening if localities actually participated with the federal government in helping them enforce immigration law.
00:03:34.000 They don't have to, obviously, legally, but they certainly can.
00:03:37.000 Localities could make it easier.
00:03:39.000 Every time they performed a local arrest, they could just run an immigration check and then call up ICE.
00:03:43.000 They could do that every time.
00:03:44.000 And then ICE wouldn't have to stop people on the street or go do immigration raids or any of that sort of stuff.
00:03:50.000 But localities aren't doing that.
00:03:51.000 Well, that puts ICE in a rather untenable situation because, again, there are people who are going to get into fraught situations with ICE officers and bad things are going to happen.
00:03:58.000 So, ICE just announced this morning that they are being instructed, the agents are being instructed to end most vehicle stops nationwide, according to Fox News.
00:04:07.000 Now, there are a lot of people who are going to be upset about this, particularly on the right.
00:04:12.000 And they're going to, you know, on the right, claim that this is some sort of climb down by the administration.
00:04:17.000 Here is the thing the only way that you're going to be able to effectuate true immigration deportation policy.
00:04:24.000 Is by maintaining the support of the American population.
00:04:27.000 And the more ugly situations happen, the more the American population just says, forget it, bag it, we're done.
00:04:32.000 And so backing off of these situations that are most likely to be controversial, that are most likely to end in a major scrum, that are most likely to end in violence, and instead channel toward things that are less likely to end in violence, I'm not sure that's a bad move by DHS.
00:04:48.000 Apparently, ICE agents will cease making traffic stops.
00:04:51.000 A federal source told Fox News ICE will continue conducting vehicle stops only for those considered to be the most egregious targets with serious or violent criminal histories.
00:04:59.000 That comes after a couple of people were killed, as we say, in those ice involved shootings in Maine.
00:05:04.000 There's also one in Texas at the same time.
00:05:07.000 That Texas ice shooting was also quite controversial.
00:05:12.000 The Texas ice shooting, according to the San Antonio Current, is straining relations with Mexico.
00:05:19.000 There's a killing of a man named Lorenzo Salgudo Arroyo by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.
00:05:26.000 Apparently, Claudia Scheinbaum.
00:05:32.000 Is going to sue on behalf of the Mexican government civil lawsuits against companies that operate immigration detention centers.
00:05:40.000 So you now have an international conflict in which the Mexican government, which has done a terrible job of preventing illegal immigration, is going to be suing detention centers operating in the United States.
00:05:52.000 Tony Payan, the executive director of the Claudio X. Gonzalez Center for the U.S. and Mexico at Rice University, says this is probably one of the toughest moments in the relationship since 1985.
00:06:03.000 And Claudia Scheinbaum is attempting to use immigration policy as a way of generating unity inside her own country.
00:06:11.000 Which, again, I think that consequences on a trading level might, in fact, be appropriate for a government that continues to foster illegal immigration and sue us over our enforcement of the law.
00:06:20.000 Scheinbaum is calling on Mexico's political parties to unite in support of Mexicans living in the U.S. and urged officials to submit inquiries and statements condemning human rights violations of Mexicans.
00:06:30.000 So there are going to be complaints filed now against private detention centers in the United States.
00:06:36.000 The Department of Homeland Security says that there has not been a spike in deaths in these detention centers.
00:06:41.000 There's a rate of.008% among their detained population as of May 29th.
00:06:47.000 And they point out that detainees receive a higher standard of care than most prisons holding American citizens, that the people inside these detainment centers receive due process, proper meals, water, and medical treatment.
00:07:00.000 Now, again, this is not the only time the Mexican government has sued things in the United States.
00:07:05.000 In 2022, Mexico sued American gun dealers.
00:07:09.000 Because they suggested that guns were flowing the other way across the border.
00:07:15.000 But again, this is the worst rift between the United States and Mexico in a fair amount of time.
00:07:20.000 And part of that is also connected to our trade policy.
00:07:22.000 So controversy in Texas, controversy in Maine. 0.97
00:07:27.000 The biggest thing, were I the administration, I'd be advising them to focus more and more on the red areas, deport illegal immigrants from the red and purple areas. 0.99
00:07:36.000 When it comes to the blue areas, the blue areas are already blue.
00:07:39.000 And so, if those blue areas insist on maintaining illegal immigration as government policy in places like California, Oregon, Washington, et cetera, Illinois, then the administration and red state governors ought to do precisely what they were doing when Joe Biden was president. 0.68
00:07:56.000 If illegal immigrants want a one way ticket to New York City and Zarnamdani can deal with them, that doesn't seem like bad policy to me.
00:08:03.000 After all, red states didn't volunteer into this, and red states are, in fact, cooperating with ICE in the deportation of vast swaths of criminal illegal immigrants who have stayed within our borders. 0.74
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