CHICAGO — A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a man Friday in a Chicago suburb. Authorities claim he tried to evade arrest by driving his car at officers and dragging one of them.
The shooting just outside the city followed 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.
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 thr