Border Patrol brokers shoot and wound two individuals in Portland, police say | EUROtoday

Border Patrol brokers shot and wounded two individuals in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, throughout a automobile cease, only a day after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot a lady in Minneapolis.

At 2:19pm, the brokers have been conducting a “targeted vehicle stop” towards the automobile’s passenger, an undocumented Venezuelan immigrant allegedly affiliated with the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang’s prostitution ring and concerned in a current native capturing, in accordance with the Department of Homeland Security.

“When agents identified themselves to the vehicle occupants, the driver weaponized his vehicle and attempted to run over the law enforcement agents,” DHS wrote in a press release on X. “Fearing for his life and safety, an agent fired a defensive shot. The driver drove off with the passenger, fleeing the scene.”

The driver of the automobile is believed to be a Tren de Aragua member, per DHS.

“These individuals are still alive, and we’re hoping for more positive updates,” Portland City Council President Elana Pirtle-Guiney mentioned at a City Council assembly on Thursday.

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After receiving experiences of a capturing round 2:20pm and confirming federal brokers had been concerned, Portland police quickly “found a male and female with apparent gunshot wounds” close by within the space of Northeast 146th Avenue and East Burnside, officers mentioned.

“Officers applied a tourniquet and summoned emergency medical personnel,” the Portland Police Bureau mentioned in a press release. “The patients were transported to the hospital.”

The incident occurred throughout two scenes, in accordance with Portland police: the location of the capturing at a medical clinic at 10200 SE Main Street, and about three miles away at SE 146th Ave and East Burnside, the place the wounded have been discovered.

“Portland is not a ‘training ground’ for militarized agents, and the ‘full force’ threatened by the administration has deadly consequences,” Portland Mayor Keith Wilson wrote in a press release.

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“Federal militarization undermines effective, community‑based public safety, and it runs counter to the values that define our region,” he added. “I will use every legal and legislative tool available to protect our residents’ civil and human rights.”

Portland police weren’t concerned within the capturing.

The FBI is on scene investigating the incident.

Protesters started to assemble because the night wore on and erected a vigil on the web site of the capturing. Local officers known as on protesters to stay peaceable.

“If people choose to gather, we ask that it be done lawfully and safely,” Multnomah County Sheriff Nicole Morrisey wrote in a press release. “As a community, we must commit to responses that heal rather than destroy.”

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Oregon leaders have known as on the Trump administration to tug federal brokers out of the town.

“Trump’s deployment of federal agents in my hometown is clearly inflaming violence — and must end,” U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden wrote on X.

The Trump administration has centered military-style immigration enforcement on Portland for months, and has made exaggerated claims concerning the state of protests towards brokers there.

Over the autumn, the president tried to deploy federal troops from the National Guard there in response, however was blocked in court docket.

The alleged circumstances of the Portland capturing mirror these of the one in Minneapolis, the place federal officers declare an agent fired defensive photographs at a driver utilizing her automobile as a weapon. Local officers, citing video of the Minneapolis incident, say this narrative is inaccurate.

Elite Border Patrol personnel have deployed alongside Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers throughout the U.S. as a part of the Trump administration’s ongoing deportation crackdown, together with in Portland.

The Trump administration has cracked down on alleged Tren de Aragua members within the U.S., summarily deporting lots of to a brutal Salvadoran jail final yr, instances critics say lacked proof or due course of.

The U.S. considers itself in an armed battle with Venezuelan drug teams, a designation it has used to justify its current strikes on boats within the Caribbean.