Tensions over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement continue to grow as federal agents were targeted Saturday morning in an incident that left several officers rammed and boxed in by several vehicles.
Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin revealed in a post to X that the incident occurred during routine patrolling in Broadview, a suburb of Chicago, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been met with protesters in recent days.
McLaughlin said that 10 vehicles rammed into cars driven by federal law enforcement officers, who were then unable to move. They ultimately exited their vehicles and discovered that one of the drivers in a car was armed with a semi-automatic weapon.
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“Law enforcement was forced to deploy their weapons and fire defensive shots at an armed US citizen who drove herself to the hospital to get care for wounds,” McLaughlin wrote.
The armed individual was apparently known to Customs and Border Protection for reportedly “doxing agents” and posting “Hey to all my gang let’s f*** those mother f***ers up, don’t let them take anyone,” online.
No law enforcement officers were seriously injured during the incident, McLaughlin said.
The exact time and location of the shooting was not immediately clear.
She accused the Chicago Police Department of refusing to help federal officers in securing the area, and said Homeland Security would be deploying “special operations” to do so.
Federal law enforcement officers with ICE and Border Patrol have descended on Chicago and surrounding suburbs since early September, as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration and crime.
ICE agents have repeatedly been met by protesters — particularly in the Broadview neighborhood — many of whom have been tear-gassed and arrested. At least four protesters are now facing federal criminal charges due to their involvement in violent protests outside an ICE facility in the region.
Tensions continued to rise on Friday after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was denied entry to Broadview City Hall, as she attempted to use the building’s restroom.
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“My team and I were just blocked from accessing the Village of Broadview Municipal Building in Illinois. We were stopping for a quick bathroom break. This is a public building. The Village of Broadview receives at least $1 million in federal funding every year,” Noem wrote in a post to X, blasting Illinois’s Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker.
“This is how JB Pritzker and his cronies treat our law enforcement. Absolutely shameful,” she said.
The Trump administration has lauded the deployment of federal officers to Chicago as successful, touting the arrests of more than 1,000 illegal immigrants.
