South Valley Community picnic and meet your candidate night: Gibbons Park, Nibley, Wed July 29

 Our Community Cache Valley and the Cache Valley Chapter of the League of Women Voters will host our second community picnic and candidate night of the summer on Wednesday, July 29, at 5:30-8:00 at the north picnic pavilion of Virgil Gibbons Heritage Park, 2456 S 800 W,  Nibley.  Candidates who have confirmed include people running for U. S. Congress, State House District 5, State Senate District 1, Cache County Council Southeast District 7, Cache Water District Board at-large seat, Cache County School Board District 4, and the State Board of Education.    

We hope you can attend and let folks in your towns know about this.  We will have brief comments from each candidate and plenty of time to speak with candidates and community members in the informal setting of a summer picnic! 

The League of Women Voters is a non-partisan group that has worked for voter education and voter registration for over 100 years.  Our Community Cache Valley fosters conversations regarding important public policy issues in Cache Valley.  

Knowledge: UPDATED: Deliberate suffering and Death from DHS neglect, violence and cruelty? IMMIGRANTS

Medical neglect is causing skyrocketing deaths in DHS concentration camps:

July 20, 2026 updates using data tables of American Prospector and fact-checked news about the 3 additional deaths after July 7th:

Source of image and Article: At least 84 ~99 deaths, murders, preventable medical deaths, abuse and rape victims, manslaughter, accidents, disputed suicides and more are known in 2025-2026.  Updating count based on several sources (American Prospector updates the TOTAL deaths in this article's main page for each catageory of deaths but details of each incident are only available the data downloads).

The HEARTBREAKING and 

LAWLESS DEATH TOLL 

(this is likely an under count because dying victims are now released into dangerous conditions to illegally hide their deaths from scrutiny)

• (56 60 victims have died in detention concentration camps under Trump (20 22 in 2026 so far)) 
• Another source of numbers- Human Rights Watch
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• (28 victims are dead from actions of federal agents outside of camps) through late May mid July). 

JULY UPDATE:

• Selected recent victims of DHS-MURDER-and-death-SPREE.  
• There are 4 people dead in mid to early July: 
1. HOUSTON FATHER SLAIN during traffic stop: A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national who lived in the U.S. for decades, as the homebuilder drove his construction crew to a Houston job site.  NEWS ARTICLES
2. DEATH IN CAMP SETTING: Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva, a 45-year-old Venezuelan man, died on Monday morning while being transferred between concentration camps facilities in Georgia. In a press release, ICE said Arenas-Silva was arrested last Thursday and had been detained at the Irwin county detention center, a privately run facility in Georgia. He was being transferred to another ICE facility, the Folkston ICE processing center, when he was found “unresponsive” in a transport bus. ICE said the “suspected” cause of death was cardiac arrest.  [RECALL THAT ICE USUALLY LIES ABOUT VICTIMS].
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4. TRAFFIC ACCIDENT: A person died during an encounter with federal immigration officials on Tuesday morning in Florida.  The victim was 26 years old.  The victim ran into traffic upon being confronted by agents.

5. SHOOTING DEATH, POINT BLANK EXECUTION STYLE SLAYING. 

   VICTIM: Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, age 25, had the legal right to work in the USA. Someone else was the target of the fatal immigration operation.

   ICE was observing the last known home of someone who had a final order of removal Monday, per the Department of Homeland Security, when a vehicle departed the house. An officer shot and hit the driver "fearing for public safety."[What the hell!!!!!]

   • Immigrant advocacy groups said Guerrero was authorized to work in the U.S. and had a Social Security number.

   PBS REPORT: The Associated Press reported Thursday that David Brouillette, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine, is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to several of his close relatives. Democratic members of Congress are demanding answers about Homeland Security's vetting and training of immigration enforcement agents after it was disclosed that the ICE officer involved in a deadly shooting this week in Maine had a history of mental health issues and violent behavior.

6. Father and young husband in Maine, USA. 

• Some victims of federal violence are forgotten because their deaths don't result from shootings or in concentration camps.  

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1. Let's not forget Dr Linda Davis from Savannah Georgia.  She was killed in Feb 2026 as a result of a reckless traffic stop by agents.  

PBS REPORT: The kindergarten and first grade students in Linda Davis' classes sobbed and shed tears after being told their teacher, who greeted them most mornings with an infectious smile, wouldn't be coming back.

READ MORE: Shooting deaths climb in Trump's mass deportation effort

Davis, 52, was killed during her morning commute Monday, less than a half mile (0.8 kilometers) from the school where she taught students with special needs. Local and federal authorities say a Guatemalan man crashed his pickup truck into Davis' car as he was fleeing a traffic stop by immigration officers. 

2, "Medical situation" led to death of a young healthy man in his 40s who aided our military in Afganistan.  He was in detention and did not receive life-saving care.  Quotes are used here because statements from DHS are almost always false. The 41-year-old father of six was arrested by DHS agents.  His cause of death was finally released in July 2026.

 INJURIES< RAPE< INHUMANE CONDTIONS

• Many people in concentration camps don't die but are injured severely and made to suffer in illegal and inhumane conditions.  Their numbers are most uncertain.  Check on reports from the private concentration camps of the GeoGroup and others to learn of the worst "torture-for-profit".
• Victims are so desperate that they are on hunger strikes in several camps
• Private concentration camps in California were purchased by federal government in effort to prevent humane conditions and oversight.  MOTHER JONES ARTICLE
• Reliable data show that federal immigration agents, particularly in the Border Patrol, are more likely to be violent, arrested, and jailed than the migrants and victims that they tracks, demonize, and vilify.

• SOURCE:  DEFENSE ONE: 

  “Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005,” he testified Friday. “According to CBP’s own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024—the last year numbers are available—at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves, some multiple times.” But it doesn’t end there. “CBP’s arrest and misconduct rate is FIVE TIMES higher than other federal law enforcement agencies,” Graff reports. 

  “US federal law enforcement has never experienced a scandal as big, as far-reaching, destructive, and as far-lasting as the wave of corruption and criminality that has overtaken CBP and the Border Patrol since 2005,” Graff writes in his 50-page analysis of these historical trends. “It is a scandal that has played out the way too many Washington scandals do: With no single headline-grabbing crisis moment ever provoking action—just a steady drip-drip of allegations, misdeeds, and missed opportunities.”

  Why bring all this up? “Congress is debating right now what, if any, changes it will attempt to force on the way that ICE and CBP operate—these next two weeks are one of the biggest opportunities we have as a nation to change what we see happening in our country,” Graff says. 

  After all, before Trump took office last January, “ICE and CBP managed to go about its work in such a way that didn’t cause ordinary law-abiding US citizens to fear for their lives; ICE or CBP agents didn’t routinely operate wearing masks and deploy teargas daily against US citizens; the entire school systems of major US cities didn’t have to close in fear of CBP and ICE operaGons targeting neighborhoods, and professional sports leagues like the NBA didn’t have to cancel games because of ICE and CBP violence in major American cities. Something big has changed.” Read more, here. 

• Bigger picture: “It appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants,” journalist Garrett Graff testified Friday after reviewing decades of public data as part of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s Illinois Accountability Commission. Over the last decade, the arrest rate alone for CBP officers and agents (.5%) is higher than the arrest rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States (.4%), according to data from the National Institute of Justice. 

• SouthernBorder.org has the depressing data showing that this violence is endemic in the Border Patrol under both republicans and democrats.
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Tracker of immigration deaths.  They are details about 378 deaths since 2010.

Hunger strikes are ongoing because of torture and inhumane conditions at Delaney Hall in New Jersey.  Other prisons are also torture camps.

https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/hundreds-at-delaney-hall-join-detained-people-across-country-in-hunger-strike-against-inhumane-conditions 

Across the United State in 2025 and 2026 there have been at least 84 ~93 deaths resulting from Trump Mass deportation plan:

A total of 84 ~93 people have been killed, medically neglected, abused, driven to suicide, murdered (usu shot and killed) under Trump 2.

84 deaths is shockingly high. died  due to immigrant agents and their cruel and illegal detention practices (July 17, 2026 update).  The numbers increase >>>4 fold from a 15 year average death rate of ~11/yr!  

Your GOP congress persons have agreed to let this happen to our neighbors.  

In the face of this shocking Violence the GOP congress decided to GIVE these violent agents and their agency $70 billion more taxpayer dollars.  Ny times article

We must vote them out ASAP. (There are a few exceptions)

Trump 2 has resulted in at least 84 76 ~93 deaths 

The Guardian documents the lawless conditions that led to 32 mostly preventable deaths in US CONCENTRATION CAMPS BUILT BY TRUMP-MILLER FOR PROFIT AND EXTREME RACISM.  In 2025 the numbers were the highest since near the start of ICE after 9/11.  If you can, please support free and fair journalism like the Guardian with your subscription.

DHS IS NOT just a TRUMP PROBLEM according to expert Jenn Bunn:

The illegal mass deportation and White Supremacy campaign attracts and cultivates the most violent and most racist federal agents available. 

ICE and BORDER PATROL have cover-up teams to prevent accountability for their violence.

Learn more about Americans have been tricked by these agencies.  

The news media is not reporting accurately on the problem of torture and murder in immigration agencies.

ABOLISH ICE! by THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali

There's no other moral, humane, or clear position than abolish ICE as a way of protecting our streets, our citizens, and our immigrants from a lawless, murderous agency trained to terrorize & oppress.

Read on Substack

There were also thousands of injuries.

Agents are more violent that nthe migrants.

Ending a legal asylum system was done to "create a false invasion"

COVER-UP culture at the immigrant agency

The numbers of deaths and injuries reported by the media depends on the source.  

Wikipedia is starting to have a good summary of torture and deaths in Trump concentration camps.  there is a deliberate pattern of releasing very ill people in order to avoid having a death "counted".  some deaths occur in medical centers after abuse in concentration camps.

The actual impact of DHS actions is deliberately being hidden from the public.  

The shooting death and possible murder of Ruben Ray Martinez by an immigration agent in 2025 in Texas is one example of this cover-up culture at the immigration agencies.  This US citizen's death was falsely reported for almost a year and his passenger disputed the lies by DHS about the circumstances of Ruben being shot dead, like Renee Good, by an immigration agent into his still car. (SURPRISE!!!).  His death was the third one outside a concentration camp, and he is one of 4 US citizens slain by federal agents.

Footage shows US citizen shot dead by ICE agent in Texas ...

BBC

https://www.bbc.com › news › articles

4 days ago — Newly released body camera footage shows the chaotic moments leading up to the fatal shooting of a US citizen by an immigration officer in ...Read more

In one clip, Martinez is seen rolling down the window of the blue Ford Fusion that was driving to talk with an agent.

His car then advances slowly towards an intersection.

An officer can be heard shouting: "Where is he going?"

Martinez appears to slow down before slightly turning his car and pulling forwards as law enforcement shout at him. Gunshots ring out.

The body camera video is taken from a few yards behind the car, and so it is unclear whether any officers were hit by the vehicle.

DHS agent killed US citizen in March 2025, records show

Reuters

https://www.reuters.com › world › dhs-agent-killed-us-...

Feb 21, 2026 — A federal immigration agent shot and killed a U.S. citizen in Texas in March 2025, months before the Trump administration began its ...

"These records paint a deeply troubling picture of the violent methods used by ICE," Chioma Chukwu, the executive director of American Oversight, said in a statement. "In just the first months of this administration, ICE's own data shows a dramatic spike of nearly 400% in use-of-force incidents - with people hospitalized, bystanders swept up in operations, and even the death of a U.S. citizen."

Audio of strato forum July 14, 2026

KNOWLEDGE: Recording of the Stratos Forum June 14, 2026 Brigham City

Monumental Monday, July 20

Protests of the recent reduction of area of Bear Ears and Grand Staircase National Monuments in Ogden, Salt Lake City, Moab, Provo and St. George.

SUWA is hosting a Monumental Statewide Day of Action this Monday! Bring your friends, a sign (we’ll provide some too), and be ready to raise your voice against the Utah politicians who supported Trump's actions—reducing both Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments.

Note: SUWA advocates strongly for protecting Utah’s wild lands with strategies that meaningfully engage all cultures and abilities. We do so respectfully and firmly and we act within the law. We do not condone violence or destruction of property.
Join us on Monday in the town nearest you! See you then.

 Ogden, 5:00-6:00 pm near Rep. Blake Moore’s office at the SW corner of 25th St. and Washington Blvd.

Candlelight vigil for victims of ICE violence Ogden July 19

 

Words have Power: Some random ideas

 WORDS Have Power

LOOTING and PLUNDERING:  

What the entire Federal Utah Delegation does to our public lands.  They were at an unhinged press conference when an illegal order to gut two Utah national monuments occurred.  False statements were made about hunting and fishing, and about whether anyone can even walk in these lands.

PBS newshour report

A more thorough analysis is here:

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President Trump and the entire Utah delegation is looting and plundering our public lands. 

Vote them out and let them know how you feel about this shocking corruption. 

The primary direct beneficiary and lobbyist for reducing the monument may be Energy Fuels Resources (USA) Inc.. 

 
Mining companies and coal companies want to desecrate our public lands.

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ABOLISH ICE!  There is no other solution

DHS federal agents are trained to behave exactly the way they are, killing innocent people and covering up their crimes.  

Listen to the Left Hook interview Jenn Bunn, former Border patrol agent and current whistle blower.
Artist name and link  Source

ABOLISH ICE! by THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali

There's no other moral, humane, or clear position than abolish ICE as a way of protecting our streets, our citizens, and our immigrants from a lawless, murderous agency trained to terrorize & oppress.

Read on Substack

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Number one Guardian of Pedophiles: Todd Blanche

Personal lawyer to convicted felon and rapist.

Todd Blanche is completely unqualified to be a practicing lawyers before the Courts, let alone the Attorney General.  

Liz Oyer says it well.

https://www.lawyeroyer.com/p/why-does-todd-blanche-keep-protecting 

https://www.lawyeroyer.com/ 

https://www.isthisreallylegal.org/ 

Two videos.

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In summary:

We've read Liz Oyer’s letters and exposes. I oppose Todd Blanche for Attorney General. He is a lawless loyalist who has NOOOOOOo place in possession of a law license, let alone leading the Department of Justice. 

He perpetrated fraud on the court in the IRS fake lawsuit case.  

Blanche violated the Epstein transparency act in some of the most flagrant ways imaginable. 

Child rapists are being protected by Blanche and company.  

We needs new lawmakers who will hold him and his cronies accountable.