NEW YORK (AP) — A man fleeing federal agents in Florida was struck and killed by a tractor trailer, marking at least the 10th death involving encounters with immigration officers since the start of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.The man, a 28-year-old Mexican national whose name wasn’t immediately released, was sitting in a vehicle with three other people outside a gas station near St. Augustine on Tuesday when they were approached by Immigration and Customs Enforcements officers, officials said. The man then darted across the busy thoroughfare and into the path of a semitrailer, according to a highway patrol spokesperson.The deadly encounter came a day after an ICE officer fatally shot a motorist in Maine and a week after one shot and killed a driver in Houston, officials said.
The deaths have stirred renewed criticism of the agency’s tactics.
A vehicle is transported on a flatbed near the scene of a shooting involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Monday, July 13, 2026 in Biddeford, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
On Wednesday, Trump said ICE agents should continue making traffic stops, pushing back on reports that most stops would be suspended.
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