[MSN] A man fleeing federal immigration agents in Florida was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer on Tuesday, authorities confirmed.
The 28-year-old was one of four individuals in a vehicle that stopped at a St. Augustine gas station and convenience store before 7 a.m.
During an encounter with agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), all four fled on foot. The man ran across a busy road, directly into the path of the semi, Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Dylan Bryan reported. The truck driver stopped and tried to help the man.
It was at least the 10th death involving encounters with immigration agents since President Donald Trump launched his mass deportation campaign last year.
It wasn’t immediately clear what prompted the encounter Tuesday. In an emailed statement, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed it had conducted an operation and said the Florida Highway Patrol and Homeland Security Investigations were “investigating an incident resulting in the death of a Mexican national.”
| Possibly a narco gangster or maybe just a common, garden variety illegal alien who was being transported cross country with three others just like him. But since ICE and Homeland Security are still concentrating on rounding up the worst of the worst, the odds are that either he was not at all a nice man or he was hanging around very bad people. |
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