[Global News Reporter 姜玲] The Trump administration’s efforts to target immigration law enforcement continued to rise. According to Reuters, dozens of protesters shot and wounded an armed woman during a confrontation with federal agents in southwest Chicago on April 4.
A U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesman said in a statement that in this conflict, a group of drivers including the woman crashed into the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) vehicle and did not cause serious injuries to law enforcement.
There is no further information about the woman's injury. The report mentioned that law enforcement officers used pepper spray and rubber bullets during a fierce confrontation with protesters that day.
People in the Chicago area have continued to protest in recent days, condemning the Trump administration’s deployment of additional law enforcement personnel. On the 3rd, local time, hundreds of protesters gathered outside Broadway ICE facilities in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, and clashed with law enforcement officials. Reuters said several protesters were sitting on the ground trying to prevent ICE vehicles from sending detainees into the facility, then dispersed by fully-armed ICE agents with force, chemicals and rubber bombs.
Previously, fully-armed U.S. federal agents began patrolling downtown Chicago in Illinois on September 28 local time, the latest upgrade of immigration law enforcement operations in Chicago after U.S. President Trump announced he would send troops to Portland. Hundreds of law enforcement officers and border patrols carried out "middle-way operations" in downtown Chicago.