Illinois governor says Trump administration is escalating ‘aggression against Illinois citizens and residents’
A woman has been shot by US border patrol agents in Chicago amid an aggressive immigration and militarized enforcement operation in the city that has outraged local civic groups and been opposed by local Democrats.
Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, told the Chicago Sun-Times that the shooting happened after patrolling agents felt threatened by approaching vehicles and that the gunfire had been “defensive”.
The exact circumstances of the incident and the health of the woman who was shot were unclear.
The shooting comes after federal immigration agents last month shot and killed a Mexican immigrant in a Chicago suburb after he allegedly attempted to flee a traffic stop and struck an officer with his car.
