A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a suspect who tried to evade arrest Friday in a Chicago suburb by driving his car at officers and dragging one of them, officials said.
The shooting just outside the city follows days of threats by the Trump administration to surge immigration enforcement in the nations third-largest city and less than a week into an operation labeled Midway Blitz by federal officials targeting the so-called sanctuary policies in Chicago and Illinois.
The Department of Homeland Security said in a news release that the officer was trying to arrest a man with a history of reckless driving who had entered the country illegally, but he refused officers' orders and instead drove his car at them. An ICE officer who was hit and dragged by the car f