Illegal's dragging of ICE agent shows the exact danger the officer who shot Renee Good feared, expert says

Heritage Foundation expert Lora Ries said that the sentencing of an illegal immigrant for dragging an ICE agent with his vehicle in Oklahoma reveals a rising pattern of violence.

Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, lauded the sentencing as "great news." She noted, however, that "unfortunately, this is just one of many examples of either aliens and/or rioters, illegal obstructionists, assaulting federal agents with vehicles."

She pointed to a dramatic rise in vehicular assaults on federal immigration enforcement officers, most notably including an attack on ICE officer Jonathan Ross, who was dragged by an illegal immigrant’s vehicle in a similar incident in Minnesota. That agent later shot and killed activist Renee Good when she allegedly accelerated her vehicle at him in a confrontation with law enforcement.