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13:21Now PlayingA newly hired ICE agent with a documented family-court history of alleged domestic violence shot and killed 25-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero — a Colombian father authorized to work in the U.S. — in Biddeford, Maine. Former homicide prosecutor Melba Pearson, the Resident Legal Diva, breaks down how someone with this record gets a federal badge in the middle of a 12,000-agent hiring surge, why a clean criminal record let him slip through the vetting, and the uncomfortable legal answer to the biggest question: can any state actually hold a federal agent accountable for a killing? Plus the quieter machinery — 287(g) deals and airport enforcement — that lets ICE reach you without ever putting an agent on your street.
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