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Trump's DHS has shot 11 people during immigration enforcement operations since September
NBC News ^ | January 16, 2026 | By Jon Schuppe and Erik Ortiz

Posted on 01/16/2026 1:39:44 PM PST by 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.”

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1 posted on 01/16/2026 1:39:44 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They can do better.


2 posted on 01/16/2026 1:40:44 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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


3 posted on 01/16/2026 1:41:23 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not enough.


4 posted on 01/16/2026 1:41:26 PM PST by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s a slow weekend night in Chimbabwe.


5 posted on 01/16/2026 1:42:41 PM PST by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: TTFlyer

How many people have illegal immigrants killed during this time?


6 posted on 01/16/2026 1:42:57 PM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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


7 posted on 01/16/2026 1:43:16 PM PST by Skywise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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


8 posted on 01/16/2026 1:43:31 PM PST by dforest
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They had it coming.


9 posted on 01/16/2026 1:43:52 PM PST by InsidiousMongo
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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.

10 posted on 01/16/2026 1:44:24 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (No, I'm DEFINITELY NOT tired of WINNING!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


11 posted on 01/16/2026 1:44:58 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

Zackly.


12 posted on 01/16/2026 1:45:30 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Extra range time always pays off.


13 posted on 01/16/2026 1:45:44 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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


14 posted on 01/16/2026 1:46:05 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: ConservativeMind

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


15 posted on 01/16/2026 1:46:35 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is just the rioters way of demanding hazard pay.


16 posted on 01/16/2026 1:46:42 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I think they can up that.


17 posted on 01/16/2026 1:48:21 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: ConservativeMind

need remedial target practice, apparently


18 posted on 01/16/2026 1:48:35 PM PST by pissant
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A good start.


19 posted on 01/16/2026 1:49:21 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

20 posted on 01/16/2026 1:49:55 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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