America’s Death Squads Are Real

(Photo illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Bulwark | Photos: Getty, Shutterstock)Over the last week, agents of the federal government have killed two people on the streets of America. We should say their names: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo; Johan Sebastián Guerrero. These men were not armed. Araujo was in the country illegally, but was not the target of the operation that ended in his public execution. Guerrero was in the country legally when he was executed by agents of the state.In America, we have become inured to incidents in which law enforcement kills civilians. The idea that LEOs can use deadly force at the drop of a hat is accepted by the general public.But what the federal government has been doing to people assumed to be immigrants is different from normal police brutality. It is a target