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The fatal shooting<\/a> Wednesday of a woman by an immigration officer in Minneapolis was at least the fifth death to result from the aggressive U.S. immigration crackdown the Trump administration launched last year.<\/p>\n The Department of Homeland Security said the officer fired in self-defense as the woman tried to run down officers with her vehicle. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said video of the incident showed it was reckless and unnecessary. It occurred as the federal agency escalates immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota by deploying an anticipated 2,000 agents and officers. <\/p>\n Last September, Immigration and Customs Enforcement shot and killed another person outside Chicago. Two people have died after being struck by vehicles while fleeing immigration authorities. And a California farmworker fell from a greenhouse and broke his neck during an ICE raid last July.<\/p>\n No officers or agents have been charged in the deaths.<\/p>\n ICE agents fatally shot<\/a> Silverio Villegas Gonz\u00e1lez during a traffic stop Sept. 12 in suburban Chicago. Relatives said the 38-year-old line cook from Mexico had dropped off one of his children at day care that morning.<\/p>\n At the time, the Department of Homeland Security said federal agents were pursuing a man with a history of reckless driving who entered the country illegally. They alleged Villegas Gonz\u00e1lez evaded arrest and dragged an officer with his vehicle.<\/p>\n Homeland Security said the officer opened fire fearing for his life and was hospitalized for \u201cserious injuries.\u201d However, local police body camera videos showed the agent who shot Villegas Gonz\u00e1lez walking around afterward and dismissing his own injuries as \u201cnothing major.\u201d<\/p>\n Homeland Security has said the death remains under investigation.<\/p>\n Another shooting, this one non-fatal, occurred in Chicago last fall. Marimar Martinez<\/a> survived being shot five times by a Border Patrol agent but was charged with a felony after Homeland Security officials accused her of trying to ram agents with her vehicle. The case was dismissed after videos emerged that Martinez\u2019s attorneys said showed an agent steering his vehicle into Martinez\u2019s truck.<\/p>\n Immigration authorities were rounding up dozens of farmworkers July 10 at Glass House Farms in southern California when Jaime Alanis<\/a> fell from the roof of a greenhouse and broke his neck. The 57-year-old laborer from Mexico died at a hospital two days later.<\/p>\n Relatives said Alanis had spent a decade working at the farm, a licensed cannabis grower that also produces tomatoes and cucumbers, located in Camarillo about an hour east of Los Angeles. They said he would send his earnings to his wife and daughter in Mexico.<\/p>\n During the raid, Alanis called family to say he was hiding. Officials said he fell about 30 feet (9 meters) from the greenhouse roof.<\/p>\n The Department of Homeland Security said Alanis was never in custody and was not being chased by immigration authorities when he climbed onto the greenhouse.<\/p>\n A man running away from immigration authorities outside a Home Depot store in southern California died after being hit by an SUV<\/a> while he tried to cross a nearby freeway on Aug. 14.<\/p>\n Police in Monrovia northeast of Los Angeles said ICE agents were conducting enforcement operations when the man fled on foot to Interstate 210. He was running across the freeway’s eastbound lanes when an SUV hit him while traveling 50 or 60 mph miles (80 or 97 kph). He died at a hospital.<\/p>\n The man killed was later identified by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network as 52-year-old Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez of Guatemala.<\/p>\n The Department of Homeland Security said Montoya Valdez wasn’t being pursued by immigration authorities when he ran.<\/p>\n