According to Reuters, on October 4 local time, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security stated that U.S. border patrol agents shot a woman armed with a weapon in Chicago, while dozens of protesters were confronting officials from the U.S. federal government's immigration department.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that a group of people, including the woman, drove their vehicles directly into those of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). No law enforcement officers were seriously injured in the incident. The statement also said that the woman who was shot is a U.S. citizen, but her exact identity is temporarily unknown, and she drove herself to the hospital after the incident.

On October 4, U.S. law enforcement members at the protest site near Chicago targeting ICE. Reuters

The report said that on that day, ICE agents had intense conflicts with protesters and fired pepper spray and rubber bullets. U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen said on social media that she is sending additional "special" personnel to control the situation at the site in Chicago.

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, said on October 4 that President Trump had issued an ultimatum to him, demanding that he deploy the state's National Guard to "maintain order," but he refused. In a statement, Pritzker said, "It is absolutely outrageous and contrary to American values to require a governor to send troops into our jurisdiction against our will." However, according to the website Politico, Trump will soon "federalize" 300 National Guard soldiers from the state, thereby gaining legal authority to directly deploy them.

Previously, residents in the Chicago area have held multiple protests, condemning the U.S. federal government's attempt to strengthen "enforcement." For example, on October 3, local police also clashed with hundreds of protesters outside an ICE facility in the Chicago suburbs.

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