The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) assured the Fox television network this Thursday that the two people injured by agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) are Venezuelan nationals and justified the event as “an act of self-defense.”
According to DHS statements to Fox, agents stopped a vehicle in Portland, Oregon, where a Venezuelan immigrant who was allegedly related to a criminal network was allegedly driving and who, when identified, tried to flee.
Federal authorities justify that the agents fired because the driver had tried to run them over.
More context: ICE agents injure two people in Portland
The Portland Police Department notified about the event and confirmed that ICE agents were involved in the incident that is under investigation.
The two injured people were taken to a local hospital and their condition and identity are unknown.
This new armed incident involving ICE occurred 24 hours after one of its agents shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old American woman, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, sparking massive protests about the offensive by federal immigration agents in different locations across the country.
Portland has been one of the cities, governed by Democrats, in which President Donald Trump has ordered, since mid-2025, the deployment of National Guard troops and other federal agencies under the justification of fighting crime but they have focused mainly on raids against migrants.
With information from EFE
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