10/05/2025

U.S. Customs & Border Patrol Agents Shoot Female Protester in Chicago

They claimed they were "ambushed" by a convoy

Amid escalating tensions in Chicago over the Trump administration's forceful immigration crackdown, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents on Saturday shot and wounded a woman they alleged was part of a convoy of protesters that rammed their vehicles during an "ambush."

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said Border Patrol agents opened fire on the woman in self-defense, alleging she was armed with a semiautomatic weapon and was driving one of three vehicles that "cornered" and rammed the CBP agents' vehicles.

Describing the incident as "really strange," Noem alleged that before the shooting, a caravan of 10 vehicles was following the CBP agents and officers through the streets of Chicago.

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