Trump's DHS has shot 11 people during immigration enforcement operations since September

NBC News ^ | January 16, 2026 | By Jon Schuppe and Erik Ortiz

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Federal immigration officers have shot 11 people since September as the Department of Homeland Security has ramped up deportation operations around the country. In the majority of the shootings, officers have fired into cars — a tactic that law enforcement authorities and policing experts have been trying for decades to curtail.

The vehicle shootings raise serious concerns among policing experts about the rapidly expanding deployment of DHS personnel into American communities, where officers are regularly captured on video clashing with immigrants who are in the country illegally as well as citizens who protest the arrests.

The shootings “are not one-offs,” said Jim Bueermann, the former police chief in Redlands, California, who now runs the Future Policing Institute, a research group. “This is clearly developing into a pattern and practice of how they deal with people in the enforcement of immigration laws, and to me that’s the most alarming thing we’re seeing.”

DHS says that in each case, the officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Customs and Border Protection believed their lives were in danger and that in several of the incidents, officers were injured.

“The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using deadly force. It’s a pattern of vehicles being used as weapons by violent agitators to attack our law enforcement,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “Dangerous criminals — whether they be illegal aliens or U.S. citizens — are assaulting law enforcement and turning their vehicles into weapons to attack law enforcement.”

[ConservativeMind]

They can do better.

[rktman]

Just random shootings for no apparent reason. FAFO rules are applicable.

[TTFlyer]

Not enough.

[decal]

That’s a slow weekend night in Chimbabwe.

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

How many people have illegal immigrants killed during this time?

[Skywise]

And? I know 2 of those were in self-defense

[dforest]

Hang tough people. RATs and globalists are trying to stop the efforts to save this country/

[InsidiousMongo]

They had it coming.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Trump's DHS has shot 11 people during immigration enforcement operations since September

Incredible! If it were me, I would've racked up that many on my first day.

[SpaceBar]

11 in four or five months sounds astronomically low considering the raw number of LEO ‘contacts’ going on.

Must be a small fraction of a percent.

[BradyLS]

Zackly.

[Libloather]

Extra range time always pays off.

[Kid Shelleen]

11 shootings? That’s a slow week day night in Chicago..

[Tell It Right]

I bet almost all of them were in “sanctuary” cities and states.

[HYPOCRACY]

This is just the rioters way of demanding hazard pay.

[Vaquero]

I think they can up that.

[pissant]

need remedial target practice, apparently

[dfwgator]

A good start.

[dfwgator]