Rashida Tlaib says ‘ICE killed another man’ — let’s ask the tree he hit at 100mph
Rep. Rashida Tlaib has already reached her verdict on the death of a Guatemalan man who crashed into a tree after fleeing an attempted ICE stop.
“ICE killed another man.”
The Michigan Democrat made the accusation Thursday while identifying the man as Mario David Coronado-Juarez, a construction worker who had been sending money to his children in Guatemala.
Tlaib said ICE “pursued him in an unmarked car, causing a fatal car crash.”
“These killings have to stop,” she wrote, adding the hashtag #AbolishICE.
Then the Department of Homeland Security told a substantially different story.
According to DHS, ICE officers were conducting a targeted enforcement operation Sunday in Grand Rapids involving a vehicle registered to a different Guatemalan national who had multiple alcohol-related driving offenses and was wanted in Guatemala on a drunk-and-disorderly allegation.
Coronado-Juarez wasn’t even the man ICE was looking for.
Officers attempted to stop the vehicle to determine who was behind the wheel, DHS said. Instead, Coronado-Juarez took off.
“As officers attempted the stop to confirm the identity of the driver, the driver of the vehicle fled at a high rate of speed,” DHS said.
The agency says its officers then did something rather important to Tlaib’s version of events: They stopped.
“In the interest of public safety, ICE officers immediately discontinued the enforcement action,” DHS said.
A short time later, according to DHS, the officers saw smoke roughly half a mile from where they had attempted the stop. Coronado-Juarez’s vehicle had slammed into a tree and caught fire.
DHS says ICE officers attempted to extinguish the fire and render aid until local police and firefighters arrived. Coronado-Juarez was pronounced dead at the scene.
Officials estimated that his vehicle had been traveling at more than 100 mph before the crash.
DHS also says Coronado-Juarez had previously been removed from the United States by Border Patrol in 2021 and later reentered illegally.
“ICE killed another man.”
The Michigan Democrat made the accusation Thursday while identifying the man as Mario David Coronado-Juarez, a construction worker who had been sending money to his children in Guatemala.
Tlaib said ICE “pursued him in an unmarked car, causing a fatal car crash.”
“These killings have to stop,” she wrote, adding the hashtag #AbolishICE.
Then the Department of Homeland Security told a substantially different story.
According to DHS, ICE officers were conducting a targeted enforcement operation Sunday in Grand Rapids involving a vehicle registered to a different Guatemalan national who had multiple alcohol-related driving offenses and was wanted in Guatemala on a drunk-and-disorderly allegation.
Coronado-Juarez wasn’t even the man ICE was looking for.
Officers attempted to stop the vehicle to determine who was behind the wheel, DHS said. Instead, Coronado-Juarez took off.
“As officers attempted the stop to confirm the identity of the driver, the driver of the vehicle fled at a high rate of speed,” DHS said.
The agency says its officers then did something rather important to Tlaib’s version of events: They stopped.
“In the interest of public safety, ICE officers immediately discontinued the enforcement action,” DHS said.
A short time later, according to DHS, the officers saw smoke roughly half a mile from where they had attempted the stop. Coronado-Juarez’s vehicle had slammed into a tree and caught fire.
DHS says ICE officers attempted to extinguish the fire and render aid until local police and firefighters arrived. Coronado-Juarez was pronounced dead at the scene.
Officials estimated that his vehicle had been traveling at more than 100 mph before the crash.
DHS also says Coronado-Juarez had previously been removed from the United States by Border Patrol in 2021 and later reentered illegally.
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