(12 Sep 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Franklin Park, Illinois – 12 September 2025
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1. Wide of vigil near scene of fatal shooting by ICE
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Lawrence Benito, immigrant rights advocate
"While we are still uncovering the details of this particular incident, we know the increasingly aggressive tactics of ICE do not keep our communities safe, and we are calling for transparency and accountability of their actions."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) State Rep. Norma Hernandez, (D) Illinois:
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"And we are devastated by this news because we have seen ICE has ramped up its racial profiling and unconstitutional policing in Illinois. These tactics have led to a loss of life of one of our community members, and he is not the first, and unfortunately we don’t know if he will be the last."
4. Various of vigil near scene of fatal shooting by ICE
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Marien Casillas Pabellon, Executive Director, PASO – West Suburban Action Project:
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"Today we are going to say no again. We don’t want our communities to be in this fear continuously. We want to continue to live how we have lived all this time, together, relying on each other and being able to feel safe, to go to school together safely, to work safely together."
6. Various of vigil near scene of fatal shooting by ICE
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Marien Casillas Pabellon, Executive Director, PASO – West Suburban Action Project:
"So ICE needs to get out of the state. They need to get our of our communities. And for once and for all, find something better to do."
++ENDS ON A SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Immigration advocates in the Chicago-area slammed the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and President Donald Trump administration after an ICE officer fatally shot a suspect who tried to evade arrest Friday.
The incident happened in the Chicago suburb of Franklin Park. Officials said the motorist, who died, drove his car at officers and dragged one of them.
The shooting just outside the city follows days of threats by the Trump administration to surge immigration enforcement in the nation’s third-largest city and less than a week into an operation labeled “Midway Blitz” by federal officials targeting the so-called sanctuary policies in Chicago and Illinois.
"While we are still uncovering the details of this particular incident, we know the increasingly aggressive tactics of ICE do not keep our communities safe, and we are calling for transparency and accountability of their actions," said Lawrence Benito of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.
The Department of Homeland Security said in a news release that the officer was trying to arrest a man who had a history of reckless driving, but he refused officers’ orders and instead drove his car at them.
An ICE officer who was hit and dragged by the car felt his life was threatened and opened fire, the department said.
ICE said both the officer and the driver from the shooting in the Franklin Park suburb, about 18 miles (29 kilometers) west of Chicago, were taken to a local hospital, where the suspect was pronounced dead.
AP Video by Laura Bargfeld
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