Key keywords: Democrats in Congress, ICE agent fatal shooting, Maine immigrant death, ICE agent vetting protocols, ICE agent training records, ICE accountability, immigrant rights, U.S. immigration enforcement, DHS oversight On October 12, 2024, 38-year-old Guatemalan immigrant Pedro Figueroa, who had resided in the U.S. for 12 years and had two U.S.-born children with no prior felony convictions, was fatally shot by an ICE enforcement agent during a routine traffic stop near Lewiston, Maine, after being pulled over for a broken taillight. Initial ICE statements claimed Figueroa resisted arrest and attempted to grab the agent’s service weapon, but multiple independent witness accounts submitted to local law enforcement contradict that narrative, stating Figueroa had his hands raised and was complying with verbal commands before the shot was fired. In response to the killing and growing public outcry from immigrant advocacy groups across New England, 27 members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and House Judiciary Committee, all Democrats, sent a formal 11-page letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on November 1, demanding full, unredacted access to the involved ICE agent’s complete personnel file, including all training records dating back to their hire date, results of all past background and mental health vetting checks, records of prior use-of-force complaints or disciplinary actions, and full unedited footage from the agent’s body camera, dashboard camera, and any nearby surveillance cameras that captured the incident. The letter cites a 2023 DHS internal audit that found 32% of ICE field agents had not completed required annual use-of-force retraining, and 18% had not undergone a mandatory background re-check in the past 5 years, despite agency policy requiring these checks every 3 years. Congressional Democrats note that fatal shootings involving ICE agents have risen 42% since 2021, with 78% of victims being Latino immigrants, and fewer than 10% of these cases resulting in any public disclosure of investigation findings or disciplinary action. Local district attorneys in Maine have already launched an independent criminal investigation into the shooting to determine if the use of force was justified, but DHS has so far declined to share the agent’s personal records with state investigators, citing federal law enforcement privacy rules. Immigrant rights groups in the region have organized weekly protests outside Maine’s ICE field office, calling not just for transparency in this specific case, but for sweeping reforms to ICE’s hiring, vetting, and training protocols, including mandatory quarterly use-of-force training and annual mental health screenings for all frontline enforcement agents.