US Customs and Border Protection agents shot two alleged Tren de Aragua gangbangers who federal officials said tried to run them down in a targeted traffic stop in Oregon Thursday afternoon.
The federal agent-involved shooting in Portland came just one day after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent gunned down anti-ICE activist Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota.
In the latest shooting, CBP agents fired off defensive rounds when the alleged Venezuelan gang members “weaponized” their car during the stop, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.
The agents identified themselves to the vehicle occupants – but the driver then allegedly tried to mow them down,  DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said. 
“Fearing for his life and safety, an agent fired a defensive shot. The driver drove off with the passenger, fleeing the scene. This situation is evolving, and more information is forthcoming,” McLaughlin said. 
Federal officials said the driver is an alleged member of the notorious criminal organization, with the passenger an illegal Venezuelan migrant allegedly affiliated with the gang’s prostitution ring and shootings in Portland.
No other details about the shooting were released.
Portland police said a man and a woman were found with gunshot wounds near Northeast 146th Avenue and East Burnside Street in Portland around 2:20 p.m. local time, after the man called authorities for help.
Police said the shooting unfolded about three miles away. 
Officers applied a tourniquet to the pair, who were taken to a local hospital for treatment. 
Their condition hasn’t been confirmed. 
“We are still in the early stages of this incident,” Chief Bob Day said in a statement, stressing that police had no role in the shooting. 
“We understand this heightened emotion and tension many are feeling in the wake of the shooting in Minneapolis, but I am asking the community to remain calm as we work to learn more.”
The FBI is leading the investigation. 
Mayor Keith Wilson condemned ICE and urged the federal law enforcement agency to halt all operations in Portland pending a full and independent investigation into the shooting.
“Violence in our community is devastating; these are not statistics, they are human beings,” he said at a press conference Thursday night. “Our community deserves answers, our community deserves accountability, and most of all, our community deserves peace.
“Portland is not a training ground for militarized agents. When the administration talks about using full force, we are seeing what it means in our streets.”
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek slammed the shooting as “another terrible unnecessary violent event instigated by the reckless agenda of the Trump administration.”
The Democrat also accused the Department of Homeland Security of endangering public safety.
“We do not need you,” Oregon state Sen. Kayse Jama said of federal immigration agents at the press conference.
“You’re not welcome here and you need to get the hell out of our community.”
The shooting comes in the wake of Good, a 37-year-old mom, being shot dead by an ICE agent Wednesday afternoon in Minneapolis, with footage from the scene appearing to show her striking the officer with her car before he opened fire through the vehicle’s window. 
President Trump and Homeland Security officials said the unidentified agent who opened fire did so in self-defense after being struck by Good, whom they labeled a “domestic terrorist.”
She was an anti-ICE “warrior” and part of a group of activists who worked to “document and resist” the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, sources told The Post Thursday. 
Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her 6-year-old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts “social justice first” and prioritizes “involving kids in political and social activism,” multiple local sources said.
“She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,” a mother named Leesa, whose child attends the same school, told The Post at a growing vigil where Good was killed Wednesday.
“I know she was doing the right thing. I watched the video plenty of times but I also know in my heart the woman she was, she was doing everything right.”
After the deadly confrontation, DHS released shocking data that showed car attacks on ICE officers have spiked – surging some 3,200% over the past year. 
Federal officials said violent “radical rhetoric from sanctuary politicians” is to blame for vehicular attacks targeting ICE agents skyrocketing between Jan. 21, 2025, and Jan. 7, 2026.
Agents reported 66 attacks compared to only two during the same period in 2024, the data showed.
Federal immigration officers have also reported a 1,347% increase in assaults and a whopping 8,000% surge in death threats during the first year of Trump’s second term.

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