The state of Oregon is investigating the shooting of two people by a Customs and Border Patrol agent in Portland on Thursday.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, a Border Patrol officer opened fire on the pair, sitting in a vehicle, after one of them tried to “weaponize” the vehicle during a traffic stop. The agency says one of the two is associated with Tren de Aragua, a violent criminal gang with roots in Venezuela, and the other is a suspected member of the gang.
The agency identified one of the suspects as Luis David Nico Moncada, a “criminal illegal alien from Venezuela and suspected Tren de Aragua gang member,” and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras, a “criminal illegal alien from Venezuela and is associated with Tren de Aragua.”
CNN and some other outlets reported the pair as a “married couple.” However, the homeland security department said that they were “a gang member and his prostitute” and not an “innocent ‘married couple.’”
DHS further said that Moncada “illegally entered the United States in 2022 but had been released into the country by the Biden administration.”
“Since then, he was arrested for DUI and unauthorized use of a vehicle. He has a final order of removal,” DHS stated on X.
The agency said that the woman, Zambrano-Contreras, “illegally entered the U.S. in 2023 near El Paso, Texas, and was RELEASED into this country by the Biden administration.”
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced that his department would be investigating the shooting.
“We have been clear about our concerns with excessive use of force by federal agents in Portland and nationally,” Rayfield said in a statement according to Fox 12 Oregon. “We have also been clear about our intent to investigate circumstances involving federal agents to ensure they are accountable to acting within the scope of their official duties.”
According to audio obtained by Fox 12 Oregon, “a Portland police dispatcher” reported to officers that “a caller told them ICE agents shot him and his wife.”
At a news conference on Thursday, Portland Mayor Keith Wilson demanded that Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which was reportedly not involved in the incident, “halt all operations” in the city.
The Portland shooting occurred just a day after an ICE agent shot and killed a woman in Minnesota, whom the agency claimed was driving her car toward the agent. A video of the incident published online by Alpha News on Friday revealed a new vantage point from the agent’s perspective.
Vice President JD Vance responded on X that the video showed the agent’s “life was endangered and he fired in self defense.”
Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also the author of “The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past.” Send an email to Jarrett
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Left is always upset when criminal who had no business being at large or in the country is shot, not a whisper from them when innocent citizen is killed, raped assaulted and terrorized, when children die at their hands. Dems are just as guilty of those crimes as the perpetrators. They love the chaos and lawlessness, the mob rule, as long as they are protected from it.
Joke Biden and his clown car of an administration purposely spread cancer throughout the US and now we’re trying to clean it up. All while the MS media does everything they can to keep the disease spreading. What they don’t understand is that, if allowed to continue, it WILL one day reach them and their loved ones. They are such hypocrites and fools.
The well known maxim “Birds of a feather, flock together” appiles here. Democrats identify with, and support, gang bangers and prostitutes.
It doesn’t get any more obvious than this.
(So much for the Portland “couple”)
Isn’t this getting old? Poor illegals and protesters getting shot because why? The law abiding doesn’t seem to have this dilemma and yet coddling law breakers appears to be the lefts voter registration. It never ends
Oregon may investigate but the Border Patrol falls under the Feds not the state.
This is all right out of the commie playbook.
They think they have a martyr to rally around and denigrate law enforcement every very time one or more of their law breakers gets shot. We have facts, and video footage to prove their martyrs false. The truth will be shouted from the roof tops. Lies will be proven to be lies.
BOTTOM LINE: I support the law and those who enforce it. Don’t like the law?… change it … or be locked up when you break it! enough said!
The left and their evil minions can grandstand all they want, but the truth will expose their lies. Unfortunately, there are people who will never hear the truth, either because they won’t seek it, or because they close their mind to it. That’s a sad way to live.
Seek the Lord Jesus and he will show you the truth.
When will the terrorist and his “girl friend” be deported?
If an American citizen steals a car it’s a felony called Grand Theft Auto, a serious crime. If a Criminal Invader does it’s just Unauthorized use. If they commit a crime by invading the US then nothing else further is illegal.
Of course the Gang member and his prostitute were the virtuous couple of the year. More innocent than Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. The woman in Minneapolis who threatened the ICE agent was as innocent as a lamb. While in meantime she tried to kill the ICE agent. These people are sick. Just like they were in the summer of 2020. Minneapolis was burning buildings and flames everywhere but what did CNN say “it’s mostly a peaceful demonstration” till they found George Floyd and drugged him to the point he was half dead when he was placed under arrest. But that part they don’t tell you. Lies and lies and more lies. The paid demonstrators are trained well how to twist the truth. If not one way then this way, that don’t work, well then three or four more lies to tell the same story. Their narrative will prevail even if it holds not one thread of truth.
This is the perfect reason nobody watches CNN. You know the Comedy News Network and if you prefer the Clinton New Network.
At least they were a biological male and female. That’s pretty rare in Portland.
America’s ENEMIES WITHIN (the DamnoRATS and RINOs are calling this a “tragedy”. Portraying the the couple shot as ‘church-going, hard-working, stellar citizens of their community. Oregonians should continue to protest this outrageous act of violence and burn Portland to the ground’.
Sounds about right for these Illegals-FIRST, America-LAST, cop-HATING, Socialist Commie scum.
Once again the lamestream media “reported” both incidents with their liberal narrative in the forefront, making the authorities out to be the bad guys, and the agitators/ILLEGAL ALIENS to look like angels. WHAT A CROCK OF FECES.
“A married couple?” Much like the “Maryland dad.” The sewer media REFUSES to tell the truth about anything; only pursuing the leftist party line! I think we already have enough pimps and whores without importing any more from other countries!
Maybe that Dumba$$ocrat $enator will visit THIS one in prison. And the female miscreant, too. Gotta keep up those appearances of actually caring…..
The radical liberals some of whom are being paid to participate in these riots are the criminals. It is against the law to deter law officers from doing their job. These ridiculous radicals are also stupid because they would rather have criminal illegals killing, raping and stealing from we citizens than having them deported to their home countries! It is disgusting and sick.
Let’s be clear, All these ridiculous anti law enforcement and anti American protests are NOT law abiding Citizens objecting to a perceived injustice.
They are unintelligent radical leftist being paid and used by the democrat party.
Remember they are supporting LAWBREAKERS who illegally entered OUR COUNTRY and who have criminal records for horrible actions they’ve committed.
Any normal person would NEVER participate or support these activities. All these stupid liberals only need to answer one question; if a person you cared about said ” do you think I should put myself in the middle of these police actions to disrupt them and participate” anyone with a brain would respond HELL NO!
The dems wanted Good to die, even her gay lover egged her on. They were schooled in this kind of crap by the democrats and her death gives them something to protest. She was their sacrificial lamb, just collateral damage.
Will Van Hollen visit these two in the hospital?
After this occurred, a crying police chief addresses the issue at a press conference. I feel sorry for the REAL police officers in Portland and Minneoapolis who WANT to perform their LAW ENFORCEMENT duties, yet they have police chief’s that cottle to the criminals and NOT the law abiding citizens. Both chief’s need to be removed from their positions and receive a “VOTE of NO Confidence” from the REAL officers at their police departments
Illegal alien is the key term here. If someone enters the US illegally, they have already committed a crime and are already criminals even if they do nothing else illegally.
Sounds like the ideal Democratic party couple doesn’t it? Don’t worry they will defend them
ICE TIP LINE
1-866-347-2423 US
So sick of the left and their B.S. Maybe the law abiding Citizens of the states that are protecting these illegals and giving the citizens tax payer money to them should sue these state governments they keep raising taxes, making it harder and harder for folks to live and then they see illegals living high off the hog.
If you are illegal your illegal one way or another this is a crime and a slap in the face to everyone who has become or is in the process of becoming legal citizens.
The people stopping the deportations are the criminals and that includes all politicians that care nothing about law abiding citizens and just want their money to support these illegals.
I am so tired of these narratives by slanted reporters and their slanted stations. These PAID protesters who don’t like the enforcement of the immigration rules need to be rounded up and arrested. The people paying them need to be arrested and charged with treason.
How many times have we heard or read “Came into the country illegally and released into the country by BIden”.
Why has the term ‘illegal’ and the phrase ‘against the law’ suddenly become non existent in the eyes and ears of the left? ICE is going after persons who are in this country ‘illegally’ hence being unlawful and ‘ILLEGAL’. When told by law enforcement to stop, when you are protesting by placing your vehicle to block officers … and you with full intent, do not stop, and in fact, attempt to exit (fleeing, in itself against the law) by rapidly moving said vehicle towards an officer (where actual intent suggests attempting to hit or even kill said officer), You are acting ‘AGAINST THE LAW’ committing a crime, so if in defense you are shot by said officer … (while committing a crime) his actions are within the law.
Even a 5th grader can understand that logic.
Let’s have some fun I say we take the Democrats and RINOS stand them on a drag strip and let loose a vehicle at them. The vehicle will have the #47 painted on the side!
I say to Oregon, get ready, keep up the lying narrative, Trump will send an additional 1000 ICE or FBI agents in to quell the violence & deport, deport, deport…This statement applies to all 50 states as MN just found out…
Bill… :~)
Bravo CBP Bravo
Whole dam demoncrat party. bunch a prostitutes , sell cheap to evil selves.
evil there subversive agenda / regime.
they propagandize them selves.”infested maggots. Lie so much to them selves,they believe there own lies—cool. Eventually self destruct- they eat their own. Grow fat
MINNESOTA land of Haters of Americas Government. They would like Communism? or socially accepted…’Progressive Democrat’? No Such animal!
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Old news, try to keep up AMAC