HYATTSVILLE, MD – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the nefarious agency with a well documented record of violence and brutality, has escalated once again, as reports surface of an ICE agent shooting and killing Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old woman driving her vehicle in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This killing follows the Glen Burnie violence, where Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins was shot and injured by ICE agents in Maryland, our own backyard, on Christmas Eve. 

George Escobar, CASA’s Executive Director, issued the following statement in response. 

“The Trump administration has organized a deadly plan to kidnap, disappear, and harm thousands across the country. Thirty-two people died in ICE custody in 2025, making it the agency’s deadliest year in all its history. Now, ICE has escalated dramatically, with video footage showing how an agent reached into a woman’s window to shoot and kill her.

“CASA stands in solidarity with the family and loved ones of Renee Nicole Good and Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins. These escalations and abuses are not isolated incidents; they are part of a dangerous and expanding pattern of ICE violence that is putting lives at risk across the country.

Community members should be free to drive through their neighborhoods, not fear being shot by federal agents. Yet from Minnesota to Maryland, we continue to see masked officers terrorize communities, separate families, and take lives. ICE’s increasingly militarized tactics, fueled by racism, hatred, and impunity, do not make our communities safer. They make them more dangerous.

Nothing can make this right. The only path toward justice is for ICE to immediately cease its violent operations, withdraw from the communities it has harmed, and for those responsible, at every level, to be held fully accountable under the law. No one is above the law: not ICE, not its agents, and not the President.

CASA will continue to call for justice and accountability for Renee Nicole Good, for Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins, and for all those who have been harmed by ICE. We will not stop organizing, speaking out, and demanding an end to this violence.”

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With over 189,000 lifetime members across 46 US states, CASA is a national powerhouse organization building power and improving the quality of life in working-class: Black, Latino/a/e, Afro-descendent, Indigenous, and Immigrant communities. CASA creates change with its powerbuilding model blending human services, community organizing, and advocacy in order to serve the full spectrum of the needs, dreams, and aspirations of members. www.wearecasa.org