Looking for Somebody Else

They said “he’s a good boy, and works really hard.”    G Em C G
A work permit and social security card.                         D  Em C D
Yeah, Duran Guerrero had really come far,                   Em  G7  C G
When an ICE agent shot him right there in his car       C  G   D  G
Right there on the corner of Hill and Pool Street.         D  C  D
His three-year-old daughter was in the back seat        C  G  A7  D
And after the sirens, the whistles and bells,                  C D G C
They said they were lookin for somebody else              C  G  D  G (2)

Now Senator Collins will have to explain                        G Em C G
Just how this can happen in Biddeford, Maine.             D  Em C D
Gave ’em money without asking any reform.                  Em  G7  C G
And the billions have just added fuel to the storm.        C  G   D  G
Some people will authorize any amount,                          D  C  D
Believing they’ll never be held to account.                      C  G  A7  D
And to all those who gather for tearful farewells,           C D G C
Just tell ’em you’re  lookin for somebody else.               C  G  D  G (2)

All the people you target, you think we don’t know?     G Em C G
Most haven’t got records. You do it for show.                 D  Em C D
If you’re looking for rapists, the worst of the worst,      Em  G7  C G
The White House is where you all ought to look first.    C  G   D  G
They’re pumping the disinformation machine,               D  C  D
And doing their best to kill anything green.                     C  G  A7  D
And selling us all to Big Oil cartels.                                   C D G C
I think that you’re looking for somebody else                  C  G  D  G (2)

If you’re looking for folks who are easily impressed        G Em C G
With testosterone-fueled hypermasculine mess,             D  Em C D
And you’re calling us terrorists if we resist Em                G7  C G
And protest when people start acting like this.                C  G   D  G
You think we will buckle?  You think we’ll give in?         D  C  D
You think that we’re letting you fool us again?                C  G  A7  D
If you’re looking for people who never rebel,                  C D G C
I think that you’re looking for somebody else.                 C  G  D  G (2)

©Doug Hendren 2026

What’s it about?  Senseless ICE violence in the time of Trump.

On July 13, 2026, an ICE agent David Brouillette shot and killed 25-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero at a traffic stop in Biddeford, Maine. According to one witness, Guerrero’s last words were: “I tried to stop.” Guerrero had a work permit and a social security card, and was not the target of the ICE agents, who later said they were looking for somebody else.

Subsequent investigation has shown that the ICE agent had a known history of violence
and racist beliefs, which would have been found in a proper background check. Further, a hastily expanded and heavily funded deportation system has led to taking shortcuts in agent recruitment and training.

Like the killings of American citizens Alex Pretti and Rene Good in Minnesota six months earlier, the killing of Duran Guerrero has drawn wide public attention and disapproval of the methods and senseless brutality of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations under the Trump Administration. In April, Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) drew heavy criticism from constituents by voting for an additional $70 billion in ICE funding, without making it contingent on any ICE reforms.  Guerrero’s killing has sparked renewed criticism that “Collins must be held accountable for funding this terror.”

According to the conservative Cato Institute, two thirds of people taken by ICE agents have no history of convictions at all, and those with violent convictions are just 7% of the total.  While Trump and his agents routinely claim that ICE targets the “worst of the worst,” the facts show otherwise. Critics describe such false allegations as a tool for advancing a radical, white-nationalist agenda. Immigrants in the US commit crimes at a lower rate than the general US population. The shameful irony is that during this dark period for ordinary American citizens and workers, the Epstein files and the US president’s connection to the most notorious pedophile in American history has remained carefully hidden from the public.

The list of crimes and abuses by the Trump administration is a long one. Several sectors of the American public that voted for this president have been harmed by their choice, including American farmers. The choice to start an unprovoked war with Iran has proven very costly, and has so far been of benefit only to arms manufacturers. See my song Big Oil Blues.

Without immigration, projections show the US would lose 1/3 of its population by 2100, which would be disastrous to the US economy.  Of course the US needs an immigration policy, but we can do better than this!