ICE kills 26-year-old in Maine: What happened, and who else has ICE killed?

The fatal shooting of a 26-year-old Colombian man by a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Maine has become the latest flashpoint in President Donald Trump's aggressive crackdown on foreign nationals.

Human rights groups identified the man killed in Biddeford on Monday as a Colombian national authorised to work in the US. Colombia's embassy said it was in contact with American authorities and was providing consular assistance to his family.

According to DHS, agents attempted to stop a vehicle leaving the address. The department said the driver tried to flee and that "fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon".

Earlier, Maine Senator Angus King said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin had told him the officer fired after the driver allegedly attempted to use the vehicle as a weapon against ICE agents.

King also said the agents involved were not wearing body cameras and that they had been in Biddeford to arrest someone other than the man who was shot.

The brief DHS statement did not mention a weapon or whether the person killed was the individual agents had originally sought to arrest.

Meanwhile, Maine's attorney general, whose office is conducting a separate investigation into the incident, said preliminary evidence suggests the driver was attempting to flee in the direction of the agent when the shooting occurred. The officer involved has been placed on administrative leave.

The Maine shooting is at least the ninth death linked to federal immigration enforcement since Trump intensified his immigration crackdown, although not every death occurred during an ICE operation.

Among the highest-profile incidents were the deaths of US citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota earlier this year. Good, who was unarmed, was shot while driving her car during an immigration enforcement operation. Federal officials said she had "weaponised" her vehicle by driving it towards officers -- an explanation that has featured in a number of recent fatal shootings involving immigration agents.

Last month, Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights reported that 52 people had also died in ICE custody during the first 500 days of Trump's second administration.