缅因州参议院民主党候选人在移民执法人员致命枪击事件后，再度坚持“废除ICE”立场
2026年7月13日 美国东部时间下午6:59 / 福克斯新闻
作者：保罗·斯坦豪泽
在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时，民主党参议院候选人尼拉夫·沙阿表示：“格雷厄姆[普拉特纳]在竞选期间的所作所为，和我们的竞选活动有很多相似之处。”
缅因州波特兰——在新英格兰北部州发生联邦移民官员致命枪击事件后，一些角逐接替前候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳成为缅因州民主党参议院提名热门人选的参选人，正在强化废除移民海关执法局（ICE）的呼吁。
周一，美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）特工在波特兰西南约15英里的比迪福德开枪打死一名男子，数小时后，四名候选人加入数百名抗议者，在枪击现场附近游行。
此次枪击事件发生之际，接替普拉特纳的竞选激战正酣，这场可能决定参议院控制权的关键参议院选举，很可能会将移民问题推至台前。
“我认为我们已经到了必须废除ICE的地步，”缅因州疾控中心前主任尼拉夫·沙阿对福克斯新闻数字频道说道，“目前形式的ICE已经证明无法履行其职责。”
普拉特纳因丑闻和退选呼声退出参议院竞选
一辆车辆被平板拖车运往2026年7月13日周一缅因州比迪福德的美国移民和海关执法局枪击事件现场。(美联社照片/罗伯特·F·巴卡蒂)
缅因州州务卿申娜·贝洛斯在接受记者采访时表示：“这在美国是不可接受的。一名年轻人，一位父亲，被ICE杀害……这种情况必须停止。我们需要将ICE赶出街头。”
前州参议院议长特洛伊·杰克逊在枪击事件发生后立即在社交媒体上写道：“废除ICE。”
杰克逊在抗议活动中手持呼吁废除ICE的标语牌，并重申他数月来一直呼吁解散该机构。
社会工作者、前国会候选人佩奇·劳德也已启动参议院竞选，她同样参加了抗议活动。
“我们必须废除ICE，并起诉那些正在摧毁社区的行动负责人，”她在社交媒体帖子中说道。
缅因州事件是一周内第二起ICE特工使用致命武力的事件，此前得克萨斯州休斯顿在交通拦截中发生了致命枪击事件。
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2026年7月8日周三，在休斯顿，一名女子手持写有“将ICE赶出休斯顿”的标语牌，为前一日被联邦移民特工枪杀的墨西哥国民洛伦佐·萨尔加多·阿拉霍举行守夜活动。(美联社照片/马克·费利克斯)
就在今年年初明尼阿波利斯市蕾妮·古德和亚历克斯·普雷蒂遭枪击身亡数月后，最新的这类事件再度引发了对联邦特工的抗议和审查。那两起枪击事件引发了数周的全国性报道，以及围绕唐纳德·特朗普总统政府加强对非法移民打击、加大驱逐力度的激烈辩论。
正在与联邦调查局一同调查周一枪击事件的缅因州总检察长办公室表示，初步证词显示，作为执法行动目标的驾车者当时正试图朝一名ICE特工的方向逃跑。
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2026年7月13日，抗议者在缅因州比迪福德的ICE特工致命枪击事件现场的临时纪念处摆放鲜花。(凯莉·斯凯勒 / 福克斯新闻)
两个移民倡导团体表示，遇害男子获得了在美国工作的授权，并拥有社会安全号码。
此次缅因州枪击事件发生三天前，普拉特纳因日益增多的争议和他一再否认的性行为不端指控，以及缅因州、美国首都和全国范围内民主党高层要求其立即退选的呼声，宣布退出竞选。
这位民粹派民主党人去年9月得到进步派旗手伯尼·桑德斯参议员的支持，他正在挑战长期担任共和党议员的苏珊·柯林斯，这场备受关注、竞争激烈且耗资巨大的缅因州参议院竞选，是为数不多几个将决定共和党能否在11月中期选举中保住微弱参议院多数席位的席位之一。
已有七名民主党人提交了提名竞选申请，提名将由缅因州民主党7月25日召开的代表大会上约600名投票代表决定。
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2026年6月9日，格雷厄姆·普拉特纳在缅因州布鲁恩希尔的初选活动上发表讲话。(CJ·冈瑟/盖蒂图片社)
柯林斯在枪击事件后的一份声明中表示，需要“对事件进行全面且公正的调查”。
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数小时后，柯林斯在另一份声明中表示，国土安全部（DHS）部长马克韦恩·马伦“已告知我，国土安全部监察长波士顿办事处已与联邦调查局合作，接管比迪福德枪击事件的调查工作。”
柯林斯的一个参议院办公室位于比迪福德，抗议者们来到该办公室前高呼“投票赶她下台”。
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Democrats running to replace Platner in key Senate race call for ICE to be ‘abolished’
Maine Senate Democratic candidates double down on ‘Abolish ICE’ after fatal agent-involved shooting
July 13, 2026 6:59pm EDT / Fox News
By Paul Steinhauser
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Democratic Senate candidate Nirav Shah says ‘there are a lot of similarities between what Graham [Platner] did in his campaign and what our campaign is doing.’
PORTLAND, Maine – Some of the leading contenders in the race to replace ex-candidate Graham Platner as the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine are amplifying calls to abolish ICE after a fatal shooting by federal immigration officers in the northern New England state.
Hours after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Monday shot and killed a man in Biddeford, which is located about 15 miles southwest of Portland, four of the candidates joined hundreds of protesters who marched by the shooting site.
The shooting comes as the battle to replace Platner is heating up, and will likely boost immigration as an issue in a crucial Senate race that may determine the Senate majority.
“I think we are at the point where ICE needs to be abolished,” Nirav Shah, the former director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told Fox News Digital. “ICE in its current form has shown itself incapable of doing its job.”
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A vehicle is transported on a flatbed near the scene of a shooting involving US immigration and customs enforcement, Monday, July 13, 2026 in Biddeford, Maine.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, speaking with reporters, said, “This is not acceptable in America. A young man, a dad, has been killed by ICE…This must stop. We need to get ICE out of the streets.”
Troy Jackson, a former state Senate president, took to social media immediately after the shooting to write, “Abolish ICE.”
Jackson held a sign at the protest that called for abolishing ICE, and reiterated that he’s been calling for the dismantling of the agency for months.
Paige Loud, a social worker and former congressional candidate who has also launched a Senate bid, also attended the protest.
“We must abolish ICE and prosecute the leaders of these operations that are destroying communities,” she said in a social media post.
The incident in Maine is the second in a week where ICE agents have used deadly force, following the fatal shooting during a traffic stop in Houston, Texas.
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A woman holds a sign reading “ICE OUT OF HOUSTON” during a vigil for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national fatally shot by a federal immigration agent a day prior, Wednesday, July 8, 2026, in Houston.(AP Photo/Mark Felix)
The latest incidents are reigniting protests and scrutiny of federal agents months after the shooting deaths in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the beginning of the year of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Those shootings drew weeks of national coverage and sharp debate over President Donald Trump’s ramped-up deportation efforts amid his administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
The Maine attorney general’s office, which is investigating Monday’s shooting along with the FBI, said initial statements suggest the motorist who was the target of the enforcement operation was attempting to flee in the direction of an ICE agent.
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Protesters lay flowers at a makeshift memorial following the fatal shooting by ICE agents in Biddeford, Maine on July 13, 2026(Kailey Schuyler / Fox News)
Two immigration advocacy groups said the man who was killed was authorized to work in the U.S. and had a Social Security number.
The shooting in Maine came three days after Platner ended his campaign amid mounting controversies and allegations of sexual misconduct that he had repeatedly denied, and a chorus of calls from top Democrats in Maine, the nation’s capital, and across the country to drop out of the race immediately.
A populist Democrat who was backed last September by progressive champion Sen. Bernie Sanders, Platner was challenging longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins in a high-profile, combustible and expensive race in Maine, which is one of a handful that will determine if the GOP holds onto its slim Senate majority in November’s midterm elections.
Seven Democrats have filed to run for the nomination, which will be determined by roughly 600 voting delegates at a July 25 convention held by the Maine Democratic Party.
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Graham Platner speaks at his Primary Election event on June 9, 2026, in Blue Hill, Maine.(CJ Gunther/Getty Images)
Collins said in a statement following the shooting that “a full and impartial investigation of what happened” was needed.
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Hours later, Collins said in another statement that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin “informed me that the Boston office of the DHS Inspector General has taken over the investigation of the Biddeford shooting in cooperation with the FBI.”
One of Collins’ Senate offices is located in Biddeford, and protesters marched to the office to chant, “Vote her out.”
Paul Steinhauser covers the national campaign trail from coast to coast for Fox News
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