An ICE agent fatally shot a man inside his vehicle in the state of Maine during an agency operation.
Commenting on the incident nearly 12 hours later, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the driver attempted to flee from agents who were monitoring an address linked to a person subject to a deportation order. However, the victim was not the intended target.
The department’s statement did not explain how the driver may have posed a threat. It said that “an undocumented immigrant departed the residence in a vehicle” and that ICE officers pursued him. The agency did not clarify whether the person seen leaving the residence was the same individual whose address was under surveillance.
Just one week earlier, an ICE agent shot a migrant man during a police stop in Texas.
Rights organizations said the victim was a 26-year-old Colombian man who held a valid work permit and a Social Security number.
The death in Maine involving ICE, together with another fatal shooting in Texas the previous Tuesday, has raised to at least seven the number of people fatally shot during immigration enforcement operations since January 2025, when President Donald Trump returned to office and launched a campaign of mass deportations.
Operations to detain migrants have intensified even further across the country in recent weeks.
Source: Reuters
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