An “unlucky” illegal immigrant allegedly crashed into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle and was subsequently nabbed, the agency said.
“This blooper is one for the books!” U.S. Border Patrol official Gregory K. Bovino said in a Facebook post.
A female Honduran national allegedly ran a red light in Slidell, Louisiana and plowed into an ICE vehicle that was in the area as part of the agency’s Operation Catahoula Crunch.
The Department of Homeland Security deployed ICE agents as part of the operation to New Orleans to round up “criminal illegal aliens,” the department said in a press release.
The DHS claims that they’ve arrested as many as 370 people as part of the operation, according to local outlet WVUE.
No injuries were reported from the crash, Bovino said, and the woman was taken into custody.
“Unlucky for her. Lucky for us,” Bovino said.
ICE officials did not respond to The Post’s request for information regarding the Honduran national’s identity or where she was being held.
“Apparently, she never learned the lesson that red means stop, not ‘accelerate and collide with a government vehicle actively enforcing federal law,’” Bovino posted.
The Trump administration has deployed ICE to cities across the country as part of its crackdown on illegal immigration.
The agency is expected to deport at least 600,000 illegal immigrants by the end of 2025 and more than 2 million illegals have left the country since Trump took office in January, according to data released in October.
Trump has made closing the nation’s southern border a priority in his second term, and border encounters are down 37% from the Biden administration, according to the DHS.
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