Al Green Files Fifth Impeachment Resolution Against Trump Over ICE, Border Patrol Killings

Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, filed a new resolution Monday to impeach President Donald Trump, accusing him of allowing federal immigration enforcement agencies to operate without accountability and citing four people killed during Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection operations this year. The measure, filed as H.Res. 1486, is the fifth impeachment resolution Green has brought against Trump during the current Congress, and it faces the same long odds as the four that came before it.

The resolution charges that Trump violated his oath of office and Article II of the Constitution by directing ICE and CBP to act as his "vicious, quota-driven, unaccountable paramilitary police forces." It goes on to allege violations of the First Amendment's protections for speech and a free press, the Fourth Amendment's bar on unreasonable searches, and the due-process guarantees of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, including claims that agents have carried out racially targeted arrests.

The numbers

Four names anchor the filing. Renée Good and Alex Pretti were both killed in January in the Minneapolis area: Good, 37, a U.S. citizen, was shot by an immigration officer, and Pretti, also 37, a U.S. citizen and an intensive care nurse, was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents weeks later. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, was shot and killed by an ICE officer on July 7 while driving a work crew to a Houston construction site. Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, 25, was shot and killed by an ICE officer six days later during a traffic stop in Biddeford, Maine, despite holding a valid work permit and Social Security number. Green's resolution frames the four deaths as evidence of a broader pattern of unaccountable force and cover-up.

This is the fifth time in the current Congress that Green has forced the House to confront an impeachment measure against Trump, and the chamber has voted to kill each of the prior four. The House tabled his impeachment inquiry in June 2025 by a vote of 344-79, with 128 Democrats joining every voting Republican. It tabled a subsequent measure, H.Res. 939, on Dec. 11, 2025, by a vote of 237-140, with 47 Democrats voting present rather than yes or no.

How Green got here

Green, 78, has represented Houston in the House for two decades and has repeatedly invoked the chamber's privileged-resolution rules, which force a floor vote within two legislative days once a member formally calls up articles of impeachment, to put Trump's conduct on the record even as leadership in both parties has preferred to move past it. He will leave Congress in January after losing a Democratic primary runoff in May to Rep. Christian Menefee, a fellow incumbent he was forced to run against after court-ordered redistricting eliminated the Houston-area seat he had held since 2005, according to Washington Examiner reporting on his political trajectory.

The deaths cited in the new resolution came amid an expansion of immigration enforcement operations this year as part of the administration's mass deportation campaign, which has put ICE and CBP agents into more frequent contact with civilians in cities including Minneapolis and Houston, and in smaller communities such as Biddeford, Maine. In the aftermath of the Salgado Araujo and Durán Guerrero shootings, the Department of Homeland Security briefly announced it would suspend arrests during routine traffic stops, then reversed that position days later. Green's office said he also sent formal written notice of the new filing to the White House, a customary step his office has taken ahead of prior impeachment votes.

Trump's ICE and CBP have been permitted to operate as "his vicious, quota-driven, unaccountable paramilitary police forces, transgressing with anonymity and secrecy, assaulting people, committing and covering up unjustified killings of civilians," the resolution states.

Reaction

The White House rejected the resolution's premise. Spokesperson Lauren Bis told Fox News that "this type of garbage is contributing to our law enforcement officers facing a more than 1,300% increase in assaults against them," and pointed to what the administration describes as the largest decrease in violent crime in American history. Republicans, who hold majorities in both the House and Senate, are not expected to advance the measure toward a Judiciary Committee inquiry or a floor vote on the merits.

Coverage of the filing spread quickly among outlets that track Green's periodic impeachment efforts, including a segment on Democracy Now! that noted the resolution's focus on the four deaths rather than on any single policy dispute. The families of the people named in the resolution have not issued public statements tied to Monday's filing specifically, though relatives of Salgado Araujo and Durán Guerrero spoke publicly in July about the shootings and called for independent investigations. House Democratic leaders, who steered dozens of members toward tabling Green's earlier resolutions to avoid politically awkward votes ahead of the midterms, face a similar choice this time, though a formal statement from leadership had not been issued as of Tuesday morning. Rank-and-file ICE and CBP employees, whom the White House says are themselves facing rising rates of assault, are also squarely in the middle of the dispute, cited by both sides as evidence for opposing arguments about how enforcement operations are being conducted.

In a statement after the House tabled his December resolution, Green said that "Donald John Trump's pattern of threatening rhetoric, disregard for democratic norms, and harmful behavior towards lawmakers and federal judges cannot be ignored," adding that support for his resolution across different committees and caucuses should serve as a warning to the president. His office has signaled the new filing carries the same message, this time centered on immigration enforcement rather than judicial threats.

What happens next

Because articles of impeachment are a privileged resolution under House rules, Green can force a vote on H.Res. 1486 within two legislative days of formally calling it up on the floor, a step he had not yet taken as of Tuesday. Given the Republican majority and the pattern of the previous four votes, the most likely outcome is another motion to table, either with broad bipartisan support as in June 2025 or with a wave of Democrats voting present as they did in December. Either result would end this particular resolution without a committee investigation or a vote on the underlying allegations.

The filing nonetheless keeps ICE and CBP conduct in the congressional record heading into the fall, as immigration enforcement remains a defining issue of the midterm campaign. Green's departure from Congress in January means this could be among his last such efforts, even as Democrats more broadly continue to weigh how aggressively to confront the administration over enforcement tactics without exposing vulnerable incumbents to a wasted-vote attack ahead of November.