ICE agents shoot two migrants within a week

Second ICE victim within a week

Shots are fired – then another immigrant is dead

A migrant is shot dead during an operation by US immigration authorities. He is the second victim of ICE agents in a week.

For the second time in a week, a person has been shot during an operation by the controversial US immigration agency ICE. The incident occurred on Monday in the northeastern town of Biddeford, Maine. According to aid organizations, the victim is a 26-year-old Colombian.

According to the Maine Attorney General’s Office, the operation was intended to enforce a deportation order. When the suspect tried to flee in a car toward an ICE officer, he opened fire. The ICE officer was suspended. The US Federal Police FBI opened an investigation.

An immigration spokesman confirmed the fatal shooting. The officer shot at the fleeing man’s car “out of concern for public safety.” “The driver of the vehicle was hit and emergency responders were immediately alerted. He succumbed to his injuries,” the ICE spokesman said.

The Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, Ryan Fecteau, was one of the first to confirm the use of firearms that resulted in one death. “ICE was involved,” he wrote on Facebook. Eyewitness Lucas Scott told local media he heard at least four shots after several ICE officers surrounded a white car in Biddeford. In online networks, users distributed video recordings that are supposed to show the incident.

In the pictures of the car the man was driving, the four bullet holes in the windshield can be clearly seen. Two immigrant rights charities in Maine identified the victim as the 26-year-old Colombian, without giving his name. He has a residence permit in the USA had, they explained. His death should not become a “footnote” in the statistics, demanded the chairwoman of the Presente Main organization, Crystal Cron.

In Biddeford, numerous people then took to the streets and demonstrated against the violence perpetrated by US immigration authorities. They posted signs asking ICE officers to leave the city. “Stop the killing,” said posters, while another sign read “ICE agents are terrorists.”