A driver who had a 1-year-old inside a car allegedly rammed a vehicle driven by a federal immigration agent in Sanford on Thursday morning.
That comes just months after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a 25-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford during a traffic stop, renewing scrutiny of the agency’s tactics in carrying out President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda.
Two ICE vehicles tried to box in the vehicle about 9:19 a.m. on Brook Street, near High Street, according to the Sanford Police Department.
The driver then allegedly reversed and rammed one of those ICE vehicles.
A 1-year-old child, who allegedly wasn’t properly secured in a safety seat, was found inside the vehicle, Sanford police said.
The child was taken to Southern Maine Health Care out of an abundance of caution, police said.
Officers later learned that the driver’s two other children, ages 2 and 9, had been left without adult supervision at a nearby home. They were taken into the custody of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.
On July 13, Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero was shot and killed by an ICE agent at the intersection of Pool and Hill streets in Biddeford. Homeland Security claimed initially that he had “weaponized” his vehicle before backing off that statement. Guerrero also wasn’t subject to a deportation order.
Coming on the heels of another fatal ICE traffic stop in Texas, the agency temporarily halted traffic stops, only for Trump to contradict that order after less than a day.
CNN reported earlier this month that ICE laid out new instructions for vehicle stops, requiring agents to complete training courses and to ensure that vehicles are equipped with lights and sirens.