An ICE agent was involved in a shooting that killed someone in Biddeford, Maine on Monday, according to Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau, who posted about it on Facebook and was cited in The Guardian. The FBI is expected to investigate.

Biddeford is a small city of about 21,000 people, roughly 15 miles south of Portland. It's not a place where you typically see immigration enforcement activity. Since the new administration started in early 2025, immigration raids have mostly happened near the border and in large cities. ICE and federal homeland security officials did not respond to requests for comment.

Right now, not much is known. No one has confirmed who was killed, what happened before the shooting, or whether the person shot was the target of an arrest or just nearby. The FBI will handle the investigation because it involves federal agents. This matters because the FBI often takes longer to release findings than state police would, and the public sometimes never sees the full details.

This is the tenth person killed by immigration agents since the new administration took office in early 2025, according to The Guardian's count. Two of those deaths were US citizens killed in Minneapolis in January—Renee Good and Alex Pretti—in separate incidents. The fact that they were American citizens did not protect them.

One recent case involved a man named Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, shot by an ICE agent in Houston on July 10. The government says the agent fired because Salgado Araujo drove his vehicle at the agent after being told to stop. His son disagreed, saying on a video: "He did not deserve to die." So far, no independent investigation has settled this disagreement.

Federal officials and critics see these shootings very differently. Homeland Security says its agents are protecting themselves when people resist or pose a threat. Critics, including some state lawmakers, say the deaths show that immigration enforcement has become more aggressive and dangerous, especially as arrest targets and raid frequency have increased. A court hasn't yet tested either side's version of events in most cases.

What happens next in Maine could matter. The state's government, led by Governor Janet Mills and with Speaker Fecteau, has been more skeptical of immigration enforcement than some other states. They might demand more information from the federal government than federal investigators typically provide on their own. The question is whether pushing for answers will actually change how much the public gets to know, since federal agencies have decided what to release in all nine previous similar cases.