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An ICE agent reportedly shot and killed a person in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday, marking the second person killed at the hands of federal immigration agents in a week.

The office of the Maine Attorney General said that agents were “conducting an enforcement operation related to a final order of removal” when an agent fatally shot a man on Monday morning. The attorney general and Sen. Angus King (I-Vermont) have both said that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot the man.

Two immigrant rights groups, Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and Presente! Maine, said that the victim was a 26-year-old Colombian man who was authorized to work in the United States, and held a Social Security number. King, citing a conversation with Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullen, identified him as “a male in his 20s” who had reportedly been ordered to leave the country. Authorities have not otherwise identified the man.

Witnesses said that, around 7:15 am, they heard multiple shots ring out, and saw agents pulling a man who was bleeding from the head out of the car, per the Portland Press Herald.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed that the man “weaponized” his vehicle prior to the shooting, King said. DHS has........

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