Olivia Wilkins, a 24-year-old woman from Maine, has been charged with trying to collide with law police and U.S. Border Patrol agents while two unauthorized immigrants were being arrested. Agents were helping the detainees after a rollover collision; one had a final deportation order, while the other had overstayed their visa.
According to authorities, Wilkins started yelling at the cops before violently revving her engine and veering in their direction, almost hitting them. She was arrested after she crashed her car after escaping the scene. Aggravated reckless behavior, criminal threatening with a firearm, reckless driving, obstructing an arrest, obstructing government administration, and failing to stop for an officer are among the allegations, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
This incident adds to a number of previous assaults on immigration authorities, ranging from physical assault attempts to threats sent by mail, which raise concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment and growing animosity against law enforcement.