Two injured after ICE agents fire at Maryland vehicle amid crackdown

An attempted ICE apprehension extracurricular Baltimore turned convulsive aft a antheral allegedly drove into instrumentality enforcement vehicles.

Two radical were injured successful a suburb of Baltimore aft Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents fired shots astatine a moving conveyance whose operator was allegedly evading arrest, according to US authorities.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said ICE agents had attempted to apprehension 2 men from Portugal and El Salvador – who were allegedly surviving successful the US illegally – arsenic they were driving done Glen Burnie, Maryland, connected Wednesday.

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DHS said successful a station connected X that officers approached the conveyance and told the operator to crook disconnected his engine, but the operator did not cooperate and alternatively drove into respective ICE vehicles.

“Fearing for their lives and nationalist safety, the ICE officers defensively fired their work weapons, striking the driver,” DHS said successful a connection connected X. The operator “then wrecked his van betwixt 2 buildings, injuring the passenger”.

The 2 men aboriginal received aesculapian attention, and nary ICE agents were wounded during the incident, DHS said.

“Our brave officers are risking their lives each time to support American communities harmless by arresting and removing amerciable aliens from our streets,” the DHS station besides said. “Continued efforts to promote amerciable aliens and convulsive agitators to actively defy ICE volition lone pb to much convulsive incidents, the extremist rhetoric indispensable stop.”

Local constabulary confirmed to ABC News that ICE agents had approached a “white van” during an apprehension connected Wednesday and reported that the operator “attempted to tally the agents over”.

The ICE agents past fired astatine the vehicle, which accelerated earlier coming to a remainder successful a wooded country of residential Glen Burnie, Maryland, ABC said.

Maryland Governor Wes Moore wrote connected X that helium was “aware of the ICE-involved shooting”,  and his bureau would proceed to stock much accusation arsenic the probe unfolded.

The shooting follows a akin incidental successful Minnesota connected Sunday, erstwhile ICE agents fired shots astatine a Cuban antheral who besides resisted apprehension and attempted to ram ICE vehicles, according to ABC News.

The man, who had entered the US connected a discontinued asylum programme, was approached by ICE agents successful the metropolis of St Paul portion successful an SUV.

The agents threatened to interruption his windows if helium did not talk with them, prompting the antheral to thrust away, ABC reported, citing Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. During the incident, the antheral deed an ICE cause with his vehicle.

The concern escalated erstwhile ICE agents pursued the antheral to his flat building, wherever helium aboriginal rammed an ICE conveyance with his SUV and deed a 2nd agent, ABC said. ICE agents fired respective shots earlier arresting the man, the study said.