{"id":235738,"date":"2026-01-09T08:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/235738\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T08:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:27:07","slug":"us-border-agent-shoots-and-wounds-two-people-in-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/235738\/","title":{"rendered":"US border agent shoots and wounds two people in Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"

A US immigration agent shot and wounded a man and a woman \u2060in Portland, Oregon, authorities said, leading city and state officials to call for calm following public outrage over the ICE shooting death of a Minnesota woman on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“We understand the heightened emotion and tension many are feeling in the wake of the shooting in Minneapolis, but I am asking the community to remain calm as we \u200dwork to learn more, “Portland police chief Bob Day said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The Portland shooting unfolded yesterday as US Border Patrol agents were conducting a targeted vehicle stop, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The statement said the driver, a suspected Venezuelan gang member, attempted to “weaponise” his vehicle and run over the agents. In response, DHS said, “an agent fired a defensive shot” and the driver and a passenger drove away.<\/p>\n

Portland and Oregon leaders said at a news conference later that they had no details on what led to the shootings, even whether it was linked to immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

While they said the FBI was investigating, Portland Mayor Keith Wilson and Oregon Governor Tina Kotek, both Democrats, called for a pause in the federal immigration crackdown pending a full and independent investigation.<\/p>\n

Read more:
Minnesota investigators ‘barred’ from investigation into fatal ICE shooting<\/a>
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“There was a time when we could take them at their word,” Mr Wilson \u2060said of how federal officials had described the shooting. “That time is long past.”<\/p>\n

At the same news conference, state Senator Kayse Jama, who arrived in the US 28 years ago as a refugee from Somalia, addressed \u2060federal immigration agents: “We do not need you, you are not welcome, you need to get the hell out of our community.”<\/p>\n

In an earlier statement, Portland police said that the shooting took place near a medical clinic in \u2060the eastern \u200dpart of the city. \u2060<\/p>\n

Six minutes after arriving at the scene and determining federal agents were involved, police were informed that two people with gunshot wounds – a man and a woman – were asking for help at a location about 3km to the northeast of a medical clinic.<\/p>\n

Police said they applied tourniquets to the man and woman, who were taken \u2060to a hospital. Their condition was unknown.<\/p>\n

The shooting came a day after a federal agent from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a separate agency from the Border Patrol within the Department of Homeland Security, fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in her car in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

\"The
\nA woman was shot dead by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday<\/p>\n

That shooting has prompted two days of protests in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

Officers from both ICE and Border Patrol have been deployed in cities across the US as part of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n

While the \u200daggressive enforcement operations have been cheered by the president’s supporters, Democrats and civil rights activists have decried the posture as an unnecessary provocation.<\/p>\n

US officials contend criminal suspects and anti-Trump activists have increasingly used their cars as weapons, though video evidence has sometimes \u2060contradicted their claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A US immigration agent shot and wounded a man and a woman \u2060in Portland, Oregon, authorities said, leading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-235738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}