Emails Show ICE Officer in Maine Shooting Expressed Hatred of Immigrants

The New York Times obtained a 2021 email thread, written four years before David Brouillette joined ICE, in which he attacked his sister over her relationship with a Colombian-born man, writing that the man could “take his non citizen ass back to his country” and that his “bloodline knows nothing about what it takes to earn and then CHERISH the freedom America offers.” Brouillette, a rookie ICE officer, fatally shot Colombian-born motorist Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero during an attempted traffic stop in Biddeford on July 13; the shooting remains under investigation. The emails were shared by his sister, Elizabeth Emen, and confirmed by a friend and a family representative.