[Today is Monday, July 13. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has killed someone on the street.]
Late last night (July 13, local time), a shooting involving an ICE agent occurred in Maine, U.S., leaving one man dead.
Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau stated, "A shooting incident occurred in Biddeford," and confirmed that "an ICE agent was involved."
Speaker Fecteau said the man died during a confrontation with the ICE agent, while witnesses explained that ICE agents fired shots at the man who was inside a vehicle.
[Daniel Boucher/Witness: I heard 'pop,' 'pop.' A small car was positioned at a 90-degree angle to the curb, and an SUV was stopped diagonally behind it. The ICE agent who fired the shots walked right past me.]
Immigrant advocacy groups in Maine claimed that the deceased was a 26-year-old Colombian man who held a valid work permit and had a wife and young children.
Immigrant groups took to the streets to protest the aggressive enforcement.
[Whose streets? Our streets!]
They also held a protest at the office of Senator Susan Collins, a member of the Republican Party.
Foreign media reported that ICE, the FBI, and the Maine Department of Public Safety did not respond to requests for comment.
Earlier this year, ICE conducted a large-scale crackdown on illegal immigrants in Maine, which was met with fierce protests.
This incident comes just six days after a Mexican national was shot and killed by an ICE agent during a vehicle stop in Houston, Texas.
With another death caused by aggressive enforcement occurring in just six days, the controversy surrounding immigration crackdowns in the U.S. is expected to escalate further.
Reported by Park Eun-ha | Video edited by Park Chun-bae
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