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Ahh velcher, you’re a good democrat Muslim convert. OBL would have been proud of you.

Funny you should continue with the religious slurs, miss self-aware.

Here's the road your bigotry takes you down in Trump's America:

Red Flags

"You may have seen the security camera video back in July. A car slowly circles an intersection in Biddeford, Maine, until federal officers bring it to a stop and pull a body from the vehicle. The driver had been fatally shot moments earlier by David Brouillette, a rookie ICE agent.

Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero was 25, a Colombian immigrant with a partner and a 3-year-old daughter. He was in the country legally, according to his family. He was shot four times in the face and neck, his family’s lawyer said.

Brouillette joined ICE last December. He’s 38, a former U.S. Army sergeant. And he has a lot of baggage. A Times investigation led by my colleagues Katie Benner and Alexandra Berzon showed his troubling work history, domestic violence and abuse complaints, mental health issues and virulent anti-immigrant views. That did not stop ICE from hiring him.

Brouillette isn’t all ICE agents, of course. But his story provides a view of the risky, speedy hiring process that brought him into the agency amid a hiring surge prompted by Trump administration demands to more than double the number of deportation officers.

ICE, which is run by the Department of Homeland Security, employs outside contractors to provide background checks on officer hires. Those checks are a standard part of the security clearance process. But as Katie and Alexandra learned, there was such a backlog that no one got to look at Brouillette’s before he was put on the streets with a gun.

‘Believe his victims’

As a result, no one saw the red flags. There were a lot of them. Brouillette struggled with his mental health. His mother told The Times he’d been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and hospitalized “multiple times.” That’s typically disqualifying for federal agents.

His two former wives said in court filings that he’d abused them physically, though he disputed the claims.

He gave false statements at least twice in court filings, including when he told a judge in 2019 that he’d worked as a police officer in Hallowell, Maine. The police chief there told The Times that Brouillette had applied for a job with the department but had not been hired.

And Brouillette has a record of deep antipathy toward immigrants, particularly Colombians. His sister dated one, a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in education, and had two children with him.

Brouillette didn’t approve of the relationship: “He can takes his non citizen ass back to his country and enjoy his third world luxuries,” he wrote in a typo-riddled series of emails shared with our reporters. “He does not emulate what it means to be an American” but “rather he emulates what it’s like to be entitled and think he has a seat,” he wrote. He continued that the man’s “bloodline knows nothing about what it takes to earn and then CHERISH the freedom America offers.”

Brouillette’s mother sent a text message to The Times about all of this. “He is dangerous and should not have weapons,” she wrote. “Believe his victims, not him.”

Read the whole investigation, which is free to read even if you’re not a subscriber, and watch Katie speak with Brouillette’s sister:"

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