WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown increasingly is sparking violent confrontations with both migrants and US citizens, a development grimly underscored by an ICE officer’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman this week. Under Trump’s orders to ramp up deportations, masked immigration officers have surged into Democratic-led cities, sprayed tear gas in residential streets, tackled people in parking lots and pointed guns at bystanders trying to film them.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey confirmed the shooting in a post on X, criticizing the Trump administration for heightening tensions around immigration enforcement.

Data compiled by news non-profit the Trace shows 14 firearm incidents and more uses of force cases