One person has been shot and wounded in an incident with the U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona on Tuesday, according to a spokeswoman for the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.
The person, whose identity has not been released, was shot in southern Pima County, which includes Tucson and is located along the U.S.-Mexico border, around 7:30 a.m., according to a statement from the Santa Rita Fire District. According to this document, personnel from the Santa Rita Fire District and American Medical Response provided medical care to the person at the scene and then he was transferred in critical condition to a hospital.
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Border Patrol, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The NBC network has advanced the news.
The event occurs amid a wave of protests across the country over the death of two American citizens at the hands of immigration agents. Last Saturday, nurse Alex Pretti, 37, was shot to death by Border Patrol agents while trying to help a woman who was being sprayed with pepper spray. On January 7, Renee Good, also 37, was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent as she tried to get away from the agents.
President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that a “major investigation” was underway into the killing of Pretti, an intensive care nurse, at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis. “I want to see the investigation. I will be supervising it and I want it to be a very honorable and honest investigation. I have to see it myself,” the president said as he left the White House.
in his position regarding the death of Pretti after his Administration was widely criticized, even by Republicans, for having defended the actions of the agents. , head of the Border Patrol, defender of the most aggressive methods in raids, and replaced them with the border czar, Tom Homan, one of the ideologues of his deportation campaign.
Democrats Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark and Pete Aguilar, members of the House of Representatives, this Tuesday in which they accuse the Trump Administration of using taxpayer money “to kill American citizens.” They also threatened to initiate impeachment proceedings against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem if she is not removed from office.
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