A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a man Friday in Franklin Park, Illinois, after the suspect drove his car at law enforcement and dragged an officer, federal authorities said.
The Department of Homeland Security identified the man as Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, an undocumented immigrant and the target of a law enforcement operation. DHS said he had a history of reckless driving.
ICE officers were conducting a vehicle stop when Villegas-Gonzalez allegedly struck and dragged an officer. Fearing for his life, the ICE agent fired his weapon, killing the suspect. The officer was injured but is in stable condition.
Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin praised the officer’s actions, stating he “followed his training, used appropriate force, and properly enforced the law to protect the public and law enforcement.”
Both the officer and Villegas-Gonzalez were taken to hospital, where the suspect was pronounced dead.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called for transparency, saying the public “deserves a full, factual accounting” of the incident.
The shooting occurred the same week ICE launched “Operation Midway Blitz,” a state-wide immigration enforcement campaign, although it is unclear whether the vehicle stop was directly part of the operation. The campaign involves hundreds of agents staging operations from the Great Lakes Naval Base in North Chicago and a federal immigration facility in Broadview.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is assisting in the ongoing investigation.
U.S. President Donald Trump has extended his timeline on striking against Iran's energy sites, as Tehran says diplomacy is ongoing...
Two months after Indian negotiators worked in January to secure relie...
Iran’Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, has rejected an offer of negotiations from the U.S. President, Donald Trump, amid the ong...
Former rapper turned politician Balendra Shah, was sworn in as Nepal’s prime minister on Friday, becoming the youngest leader in decades and ...
The United Arab Emirates has told the U.S. and other Western allies that it is willing to participate in a multinational maritime taskforce aimed a...
Hundreds of Texas National Guard soldiers gathered on Tuesday at an Army facility outside Chicago, as Donald Trump's threat to invoke an anti-insurrection law and deploy troops to more U.S. cities intensified the battle over the limits to his authority.
Chicagoans say they are split over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy National Guard troops to the city, with some fearing racism and others welcoming a crackdown on crime.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that Chicago will soon face increased deportations, following his controversial renaming of the Department of Defense to the Department of War.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., to be armed, as the Trump administration continues its controversial crime crackdown in the capital.
Israel said it had killed Alireza Tangsiri, the Commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Navy, on Thursday, as confict in the Middle East continued.
Iran has rejected a U.S. proposal to end the war, insisting any ceasefire will occur only on its own terms and timeline, according to a senior political-security official speaking to state-run Press TV on Wednesday.
Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Rally (RN), said on Wednesday that the U.S. had “clearly made a mistake” in launching strikes on Iran, arguing Washington misjudged the resilience of the Iranian regime.
Russia’s Baltic ports of Primorsk and Ust-Luga, major export terminals, suspended loadings of crude oil and refined products on Wednesday after large-scale Ukrainian drone attacks triggered a blaze, sources told Reuters.
Northern European countries must significantly boost military drone production to help Ukraine defeat Russia, Latvia’s Prime Minister has said, warning that victory would be “impossible” without greater support.
Two months after Indian negotiators worked in January to secure relief from punitive U.S. tariffs on the country’s exports and New Delhi moved to cut back its purchases of Russian crude oil, India and Russia are stepping up their energy ties once again, according to Reuters.
U.S. paper currency will bear President Donald Trump's signature starting this summer, the first time a sitting president has signed American money, the Treasury Department said on Thursday. The change comes as the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary.
Mexico's navy said it had activated a search-and-rescue operation in the Caribbean to locate two sailboats carrying humanitarian aid to Cuba after the vessels failed to arrive in Havana.
A powerful tropical cyclone in Western Australia has disrupted production at the country’s two biggest liquefied natural gas plants run by Chevron and Woodside, exacerbating a global supply crunch caused by the conflict in the Middle East.
France has rejected claims that South Africa was dropped from the guest list for this year’s G7 summit under pressure from United States, insisting the decision to invite Kenya was its own.
You can download the AnewZ application from Play Store and the App Store.
What is your opinion on this topic?
Leave the first comment