ICE, say hello to the Freedom of Information Act
Posted: 14th January 2026
The Intercept is committed to using every tool at our disposal to force the Trump administration to comply.
Nearly every word from the Trump administration on the killing of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent last week in Minneapolis has been a lie.
Trump claimed that Good “viciously ran over the ICE Officer” and that “it is hard to believe he is alive.” The Department of Homeland Security called her a “rioter,” and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem accused her of “domestic terrorism.”
We’re calling bullshit.
The truth is that this is just the latest in a long pattern of people being shot, beaten, and/or killed by federal immigration agents. We’ve been exposing these egregious patterns for years and have filed numerous Freedom of Information Act requests to uncover more about what’s really going on at DHS and ICE.
But so far the Trump administration is stonewalling, and we know from past experience that forcing them to hand over documents the public is entitled to see could be a long and costly legal fight.
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Last July, The Intercept documented a pattern of federal agents brandishing firearms at unarmed individuals, shooting tear gas, and assaulting onlookers.
Since then:
- Customs and Border Protection agents opened fire on a family in San Bernardino, California, as they drove away during a traffic stop.
- An ICE officer in Ontario, California, shot Carlos Jimenez in the back as he tried to warn agents of the presence of children at a nearby bus stop.
- Immigration agents shot TikTok streamer Carlitos Ricardo Parias in South Los Angeles.
- An ICE officer in Chicago shot and killed Silverio Villegas González at a traffic stop.
- Federal agents shot two people in Portland, Oregon, last Thursday, just one day after the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis.
Others have been killed while fleeing ICE raids, such as the California cases of farmworker Jaime Alanís Garcia, who fell from a greenhouse roof and died from his injuries, and Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez, who was struck by a car while running across a freeway as agents raided a Home Depot.
This kind of rampant state violence is the result of policies set from the top down, including routine disguises, poor training, daily arrest quotas, racial profiling, and the lack of consequences for agents who use excessive force or break the law.
The Intercept is committed to using every tool at our disposal to force the Trump administration to comply with the Freedom of Information Act — but we’re counting on your financial support to make sure we have the resources to push this fight as long as it takes.
Thank you,
The Intercept team