Border Patrol agents shoot woman as protesters confront immigration personnel

5/10/2025 6:30

U.S. Border Patrol personnel shot an armed woman in Chicago on Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security said, as scores of protesters faced off against federal immigration agents on the city's southwest side.



No law enforcement officers were seriously injured in the incident in which a group that included the woman rammed cars into vehicles used by U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in a statement. The woman, a U.S. citizen who was not identified, drove herself to the hospital, according to the statement. No additional information was immediately available about the woman's condition. ICE agents fired pepper spray and loaded rubber bullets as part of heated exchanges with protesters on Saturday.



U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said in a post on X that she was sending additional "special operations" to control the scene in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, a Democrat, said on Saturday that he was given an ultimatum by Republican President Donald Trump to deploy the state's National Guard.