ST. PAUL, Minn. — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fired photographs Sunday at a Cuban immigrant dwelling within the U.S. illegally after the person struck the agent and one other one with an SUV in Minnesota’s state capital, the Division of Homeland Safety stated.
The person additionally bit an ICE agent as officers subdued him exterior his condominium in St. Paul after he tried to flee on foot, Assistant Homeland Safety Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stated in an e mail.
The person wasn’t damage, and the accidents acquired by the brokers struck by the SUV weren’t life-threatening, although he and the brokers had been taken to the hospital for analysis, McLaughlin stated.
Tensions have been rising within the Minneapolis-St. Paul space as federal authorities proceed an immigration crackdown. Final week, ICE agents and protesters clashed in neighboring Minneapolis.
McLaughlin stated the person detained Sunday entered the U.S. in 2024 by way of a now-discontinued program applied by former President Joe Biden’s administration permitting migrants with out correct entry papers into the nation whereas their claims for asylum had been reviewed.
The incident occurred Sunday morning. St. Paul police stated in an announcement that they had been referred to as to the realm by reviews of photographs being fired, solely to study that the ICE agent had fired the photographs.
ICE brokers noticed the person moving into his SUV and approached the car, McLaughlin stated, figuring out themselves as ICE brokers. When the person refused to roll down his window, they advised him that they might break it if he continued to not comply, she stated.
The person drove off, placing one agent, and went to a parking zone of his condominium complicated, the place brokers stopped him once more and ordered him out of the SUV, McLaughlin stated. He rammed his SUV into an ICE car, placing the second agent, prompting the photographs, which didn’t hit him, she stated.
After ramming one other ICE car, the person bought out of his SUV and tried to flee into his condominium, however brokers introduced him to the bottom, McLaughlin stated.
