EXCLUSIVE: Illegal Immigrant Fatally Shot By ICE Agent Received Deportation Waiver Under Biden

The illegal immigrant shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Chicago last week was previously given a second chance of staying in the United States by the Biden administration, which granted him a deportation waiver despite a past arrest, federal law enforcement sources told The Daily Wire.

The Biden administration granted Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez reprieve despite his 2013 arrest by the Chicago Police Department for reckless driving, assault, speeding, and lacking a license and insurance, the sources said.

Villegas-Gonzalez struck the ICE agent with his vehicle on Friday while the feds were conducting an operation at Franklin Park.

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The suspect was asked to stop his vehicle, but continued driving, hitting the agent and “subsequently dragging him as he fled the scene,” an ICE spokesman told NBC 5 Chicago.

“Fearing for his life,” the agent shot the driver.

The ICE agent sustained severe injuries, but remained in stable condition after being dragged “a significant distance,” said Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.

Former assistant ICE chief for New York Scott Mechkowski told The Daily Wire that Villegas-Gonzalez should’ve been deported more than a decade ago.

“The ICE agent’s split second decision to shoot saved his own life and possibly other lives when Villegas-Gonzalez floored it, dragging him. It was pure self-defense against a man who’d been shielded for years by Chicago’s insane sanctuary policies letting a 2013 assault suspect roam free,” said Mechkowski.

“Sanctuary cities don’t protect innocent people, they shield killers in waiting, and when enforcement finally fights back like our agents did, it’s the only thing standing between us and blood on the streets. He should have been removed in 2013,” Mechkowski added.

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The agent and suspect were taken to a hospital before Villegas-Gonzalez was pronounced dead.

President Donald Trump commenced “Operation Midway Blitz” last week, flooding the Windy City with feds to “target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois because they knew Governor Pritzker and his sanctuary policies would protect them and allow them to roam free on American streets.”

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Anti-ICE activists have flocked to the streets of Chicago in response to the effort. Federal agents forcibly removed some of the protesters who staged a recent sit-in at an ICE facility on Friday, ABC 7 Chicago reported.

Trump has also vowed to send in the National Guard to support ICE’s efforts in Chicago, drawing backlash from Democratic leaders in the sanctuary city.

The president and Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker have sparred since the effort began.

“It’s disturbing that the President is hellbent on sending troops onto America’s streets. Using those who serve in uniform as political props is insulting. None of this is normal,” Pritzker wrote on X Friday.