street. PAUL, MINNESOTA — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Sunday shot a Cuban immigrant living in the United States illegally after the man hit the agent and another with an SUV in Minnesota’s capital, the Department of Homeland Security said.
The man also bit an ICE agent when officers subdued him outside his St. Paul apartment after he tried to flee on foot, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin said in an email.
The man was not injured, and the injuries sustained by the agents struck by the SUV were not life-threatening, though he and the agents were taken to the hospital for evaluation, McLaughlin said.
Tensions We’ve been on the rise in Minneapolis-St. Paul area where federal authorities continue to migrate campaign. last week, ICE agents and protesters clashed In nearby Minneapolis.
McLaughlin said the man arrested Sunday entered the United States in 2024 through a now-defunct program implemented by former President Joe Biden’s administration that allows migrants without proper entry papers to enter the country while their asylum claims are being reviewed.
The incident occurred on Sunday morning. St. Paul police said in a statement that they were called to the area after reports of shots being fired, only to learn that it was an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fired the shots.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents saw the man get into his SUV, approached it, and identified themselves as ICE agents, McLaughlin said. She added that when the man refused to open his window, they told him they would break it if he continued to not comply.
The man drove off, struck an agent, and went into the parking lot of his apartment complex, where agents stopped him again and ordered him to get out of the SUV, McLaughlin said. She said he rammed his SUV into an ICE vehicle, striking the second agent, firing shots that did not hit him.
After crashing into another ICE vehicle, the man got out of his SUV and tried to flee to his apartment, but agents tackled him to the ground, McLaughlin said.