Chellie Pingree

One of Maine’s two U.S. House members has vowed to keep the pressure on the Trump administration after federal immigration agents shot and killed a person on Monday.

“We will all be pushing. I’m planning on calling (U.S. Homeland Security Secretary) Markwayne Mullin,” U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, told MassLive in an interview.

Pingree, who described herself as “angry” and “distressed” over the shooting that involved U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, said “colleagues have been contacting me” about the incident.

The Democratic lawmaker suggested she could join with colleagues in Texas, the site of another fatal ICE shooting that has made national headlines.

“We are absolutely headed to Washington to figure out whatever we can do,” Pingree said.

“We’ve already been trying to block their funding to put more conditions on the funding that they do have, and the Republicans have refused to go along with us,” she continued. “So this wakes them up and makes them decide to do something.”

News of the shooting in Biddeford, Maine broke early Monday morning after Maine state House Speaker Ryan Fecteau posted a statement on Facebook.

One person was killed, and “ICE was involved,” Fecteau stated. The shooting was under investigation by Maine State Police and the Department of Public Safety as of 8:18 a.m. on Monday, he said. Fecteau said he expected the FBI would also investigate the incident.

“These are the details that I have at this time. I will provide further updates, as they are relayed to me,” Fecteau said.

Speaking to MassLive on Monday, Pingree said “there’s too much ICE presence in our state,” and added that she, too, was seeking more information.

Troy Jackson, a Democratic candidate for Maine’s open U.S. Senate seat, told MassLive that someone had been killed by “supposed law enforcement.”

“I mean, they’re not law enforcement,” Jackson, a logger and former president of Maine’s state Senate, said. “And it just comes back to what we were talking about in the governor’s race is that, you know, they need to be arrested,” adding that the agency “should be abolished.”

“But until it is, people that violate the Constitution like that, and people that murder Mainers, need to be taken into custody and arrested. I mean there’s no room for this,” he said.