Immigration advocates in the Chicago-area slammed the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and President Donald Trump administration after an ICE officer fatally shot a suspect who tried to evade arrest Friday.

The incident happened in the Chicago suburb of Franklin Park. Officials said the motorist, who died, drove his car at officers and dragged one of them.

The shooting just outside the city follows days of threats by the Trump administration to surge immigration enforcement in the nation’s 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.

"While we are still uncovering the details of this particular incident, we know the increasingly aggressive tactics of ICE do not keep our communities safe, and we are calling for transparency and accountability of their actions," said Lawrence Benito of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

The Department of Homeland Security said in a news release that the officer was trying to arrest a man who had a history of reckless driving, but he refused officers' orders and instead drove his car at them.

An ICE officer who was hit and dragged by the car felt his life was threatened and opened fire, the department said.

ICE said both the officer and the driver from the shooting in the Franklin Park suburb, about 18 miles (29 kilometers) west of Chicago, were taken to a local hospital, where the suspect was pronounced dead.

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