NPR News: 07-14-2026 1AM EDT

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Giles Snyder· Host0:15

Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Maine Independent Senator Angus King says a motorist fatally shot Monday morning by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers was not the target of the warrant the officers were trying to serve. King says he got that information from Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Maine Public's Ari Snyder is following what happened in Biddeford near Portland.

Ari Snyder0:41

Biddeford's a small city. It's maybe, you know, a little over twenty thousand people. And it's got deep immigrant roots, in part because it was a mill town and so it drew a lot of French Canadians. And now it has growing immigrant communities from other parts of the world, in part because people are being priced out of Portland, which is not far away, but it's quite expensive. The reaction there today on the ground was swift. Many residents, uh, said they're in shock that something like this could happen in their small town. You know, the shooting took place in the morning, and by noon, a couple hundred protesters were marching through downtown.

Giles Snyder· Host1:11

The Homeland Security Department says an ICE officer opened fire because he feared for public safety when the motorist attempted to flee. The shooting in Maine came less than a week after an ICE agent fatally shot a man in a traffic stop in Houston, Texas, during a deportation crackdown. Federal government is running a bigger deficit