The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a Saturday incident in Chicago involving border patrol agents who were “attacked and rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars” and “forced” to open fire on an armed woman.
No law enforcement officers were seriously harmed during the incident, according to authorities. The FBI is on the scene of what is described as an “evolving situation” which followed a week of the suspects doxing federal officers online, according to DHS. The agency condemned the apparent use of vehicles against law enforcement on Thursday after DHS said “illegal aliens” targeted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers with cars during two separate incidents in Chicago.
“While conducting routine patrolling in the greater Broadview area, near the same area of Chicago that law enforcement was assaulted yesterday, our brave law enforcement officers were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars this morning,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a Saturday statement. “Agents were unable to move their vehicle and exited the car. One of the drivers who rammed the law enforcement vehicle was armed with a semi-automatic weapon. Law enforcement was forced to deploy their weapons and fired defensive shots at an armed U.S. citizen who drove herself to the hospital to get care for wounds.”
ICE launched “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago and across Illinois on Sept. 8 to target illegal migrants who “flocked” to the region due to its sanctuary laws, according to DHS. Local politicians, including Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, have railed against the Trump administration for these efforts. In addition, many riots have broken out across the region.
DHS arrested more than 800 illegal migrants throughout the operation, “including [the] worst of the worst criminals,” the agency announced on Wednesday.
The agency repeatedly noted ICE agents are being targeted around the U.S. as they continue to carry out President Donald Trump’s promise to deport illegal migrants. By comparison, illegal migration hit record highs under the Biden administration.
“Comparing ICE day-in and day-out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences. The men and women of ICE and CBP are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters,” McLaughlin continued. “They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, they just want to go home to their families at night.”
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