US Immigration Service: ICE officer shoots and injures man in New York

A US immigration officer, ICE, shot and injured a man during an operation in New York. “The man is alive and in a local hospital,” the US Department of Homeland Security announced on the X platform. The man was supposed to be arrested during the operation.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said initial reports indicated emergency services had surrounded the man's car, which also had a five-year-old child in it. Then several shots were fired. According to current knowledge, the child remained physically unharmed.

The incident occurred in the afternoon in a residential area. The authority described the man as a “criminal illegal immigrant” and pointed to a previous conviction for theft and other arrests. He was arrested by the New York police in December 2023, but was subsequently released. The ministry blamed what it saw as lax immigration policies in democratically governed cities for this.

Mamdani calls for abolition of ICE

Mamdani called the incident "unjustifiable and extremely serious." He called US President Donald Trump. »When we speak, I will demand that he end all ICE operations in our city. “I will not stand idly by while ICE officers terrorize our communities,” Mamdani said in a statement that ended with the words “Abolish ICE.”

In the USA, the immigration agency ICE has been criticized for operations against migrants and controversial arrests. In recent months there have been cases of fatal shootings in Houston and the state of Maine. There were nationwide protests earlier this year after federal officers shot and killed two Americans in the state of Minnesota.

The ICE operations are part of the US President's stricter deportation policy. Trump defends his actions with the aim of improving internal security.