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What recent incidents have involved immigration enforcement in Portland?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. Immigration enforcement agents have shot and wounded two people in Portland, Oregon. As NPR's Jimena Bustillo reports, police say that both individuals were hospitalized.
According to DHS, U.S. Border Patrol agents were conducting a targeted vehicle stop in Portland, Oregon when the shooting occurred. The agency said the passengers of the vehicle and target for the operation was suspected to be a Venezuelan immigrant in the U.S. illegally. They also said the Border Patrol agent feared for his life and fired a, quote, defensive shot and the vehicle fled from the scene. In a statement, Police Chief Bob Day asked the community to, quote, remain calm as they work to earn more. The shooting took place a day after a woman was killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minnesota. DHS also called that incident self-defense. Ximena Bustillo, NPR News.
Federal law enforcement officials are no longer cooperating with Minnesota in the investigation into a fatal shooting involving a Minneapolis woman on Wednesday. NPR's Ilana Wise has more.
According to DHS, U.S. Border Patrol agents were conducting a targeted vehicle stop in Portland, Oregon when the shooting occurred. The agency said the passengers of the vehicle and target for the operation was suspected to be a Venezuelan immigrant in the U.S. illegally. They also said the Border Patrol agent feared for his life and fired a, quote, defensive shot and the vehicle fled from the scene. In a statement, Police Chief Bob Day asked the community to, quote, remain calm as they worked to earn more. The shooting took place a day after a woman was killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minnesota. DHS also called that incident self-defense. Ximena Bustillo, NPR News.
Texas A&M University has adopted a new system that changes the core curriculum in roughly 200 courses. The school now bans discussions about race and gender ideology in classrooms. The first... version was adopted last fall after a student secretly recorded a professor who was talking about gender identity in children's literature. The changes have led university regents to ban readings by philosopher Plato.
Ever since the shooting happened on Wednesday morning, Minnesota officials and the federal government have been at odds about the facts. The Trump administration has defended the shooting of Rene Good and said the ICE agent used justifiable force. Minnesota officials and high-ranking Democrats, however, say the feds aren't painting a full picture. They say footage from the scene appears to show ICE agents escalating a situation and that a thorough investigation is necessary.
NPR's Alana Wise reporting. You're listening to NPR. Mexico's president says daily homicide rates in her country are at their lowest level since 2016. Nina Kravinsky of member station KJZZ reports that the government numbers presented on Thursday show a 40 percent decline since fall of 2024.
Preliminary statistics from the Mexican government show an average of 34 fewer homicides every day since the start of President Claudia Sheinbaum's term. Sheinbaum and her administration attribute the decline to her government's security strategy. But violent crime remains common in some parts of Mexico. The state of Sinaloa, for example, has seen a spike in violence in the past year and a half as cartel factions battle for power there. Mexico is also attempting to bring down rates of extortion by organized crime groups. Rates of that crime, as well as rates of missing people, have remained high here over the past few years. For NPR News, I'm Nina Kravinsky in Hermosillo, Mexico.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has announced that the paper is shutting down, citing financial losses. Block Communications, Inc. announced it will cease publication on May 3rd. The announcement comes less than six years after the Post-Gazette had failed to reach a new bargaining agreement with its workers. On Wall Street, stocks closed mixed. The Dow Jones Industrials gained 270 points.
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