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Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Public Affairs, said immigration enforcement officers on patrol near Broadview were rammed and boxed in by 10 cars before firing on an armed individual.

“Agents were unable to move their vehicles and exited the car,” McLaughlin posted on X. “One of the drivers who rammed the law enforcement vehicle was armed with a semi-automatic weapon. Law enforcement was forced to deploy their weapons and fire defensive shots at an armed U.S. citizen who drove herself to the hospital to get care for wounds.” She added that no immigration enforcement officers were seriously injured.

McLaughlin said the Chicago Police Department “is leaving the shooting scene and refuses to assist us in securing the area,” as a crowd gathered and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deployed special operations teams to stabilize the situation.

The incident comes amid rising tensions at the Broadview facility of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), where officers in riot gear and gas masks have been deployed to control demonstrations, reported NBC Chicago.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-Ill.) fanned the flames, saying yesterday morning that U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, “doesn’t even deserve to set foot in this state,” reported CBS News Chicago.

In an X post earlier today, Pritzker said, “ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.”

Federal authorities recently announced the arrest of more than 800 individuals in Illinois in “Operation Midway Blitz,” which targeted criminal illegal aliens with violent records and drug trafficking ties, reported Chicago City Wire. Among those arrested was Cristobal Carias Masin, a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador convicted of statutory rape and fraud and facing additional felony charges.

Dan Proft, hosted of Chicago’s Morning Answer on AM 560, said the attacks reflect a broader failure of state leadership. 

“Pritzker is every bit the race-hustling, defund-the-police demagogue as the most virulent pro-violence Leftists for whom he provides political cover,” Proft posted on X.

Steve Cortes, founder of the League of American Workers, tied the violence back to the earlier Noem incident. 

“This is what lawlessness under J.B. Pritzker and Brandon Johnson looks like,” Cortes said. “Days after federal agents arrested illegal alien murderers and rapists in Chicago, Secretary Noem is blocked from a public building. That’s contempt for law enforcement and contempt for the American people.”