\n In Wednesday\u2019s incident, the driver of the van was shot and another undocumented migrant in the van was injured, but both are in stable condition and are expected to recover, the Department of Homeland Security said.\n <\/p>\n
\n After a year of violent encounters between DHS and the public, the confrontation provides another example of how car crashes and rammings are taking center stage in encounters with federal agents as immigration enforcement has ramped up across the country.\n <\/p>\n
\n ICE officers were in Glen Burnie, Maryland, Wednesday conducting \u201ca targeted immigration enforcement operation\u201d when they attempted to stop the two men, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.\n <\/p>\n
\n The undocumented migrants were identified as Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins, a Portuguese man who was driving the van, and Solomon Antonio Serrano-Esquivel, a man from El Salvador who was a passenger, McLaughlin said.\n <\/p>\n
\n Officers approached the van and asked Sousa-Martins to turn off the engine, but he refused and attempted to leave the scene, she said. He started ramming ICE vehicles and \u201cthen drove his van directly at ICE officers\u201d as \u201cit appeared he was trying to run them over,\u201d McLaughlin said.\n <\/p>\n
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\n \u201cFearing for their lives and public safety, (officers) defensively fired their service weapons, striking the driver,\u201d she said. Sousa-Martins then wrecked his car between two buildings, McLaughlin said, although photos shared by the agency on X<\/a> show a white van crashed into a tree. CNN has reached out to DHS for clarification.\n <\/p>\n \n In the process of the crash, Serrano-Esquivel was also injured, she said.\n <\/p>\n \n Officers immediately gave medical care to the two men and took them to the hospital, McLaughlin said, adding no ICE agents were injured.\n <\/p>\n \n Sousa-Martins came to the US from Portugal in December 2008, but didn\u2019t leave the country when his visa expired in February 2009, DHS said. The agency didn\u2019t provide additional information on Serrano-Esquivel\u2019s immigration history.\n <\/p>\n \n It is not immediately clear if the two men obtained legal representation.\n <\/p>\n \n CNN has reached out to local law enforcement in the area to see if they responded to the incident.\n <\/p>\n \n As images of dramatic immigration operations have risen across the country over the last year, incidents involving cars has become a common occurrence<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cAggressors are now purposefully running into officers, boxing in law enforcement vehicles, running ICE law enforcement off the roads, and ramming their cars into law enforcement vehicles,\u201d Emily Covington, ICE Assistant Director of Public Affairs, told CNN<\/a> in October.\n <\/p>\n \n But the agency has been criticized for using the tactic itself, including controversial \u201cprecision immobilization technique\u201d or \u201cPIT\u201d maneuvers, which force a car to spin out and stop. Experts have told CNN the maneuver is considered a use of deadly force.\n <\/p>\n \n In October, Marimar Martinez<\/a> was shot by a Customs and Border Patrol agent after the agency alleged she purposefully rammed into an agent\u2019s car. US District Judge Georgia Alexakis, who presided over the case, ultimately dropped the charges after repeatedly raising concerns on how the investigation was handled and discrepancies that appeared.\n <\/p>\n \n Other incidents<\/a> in Chicago, including a man that was fatally shot<\/a> during a traffic stop, have infuriated the community and caused widespread condemnation as agents under the DHS umbrella have been accused of lying in court<\/a> and presenting different scenarios in public statements versus court documents<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A traffic stop outside of Baltimore Wednesday ended with an undocumented man shot and another injured after US…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-368793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}