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Congress: Stop Funding ICE’s Violence
On January 24, Alex Jeffrey Pretti was shot and killed in broad daylight at the hands of Donald Trump’s ICE agents. In Minnesota and cities all over the country, we’ve seen these heavily armed, unidentified, and untrained federal agents pointing their guns at peaceful protesters & legal observers, wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens & legal residents, and disappearing our neighbors without due process.
ICE agents are operating with zero oversight. We’ve witnessed countless acts of senseless violence from these out-of-control agents in the first year of Trump’s second term, and it’s only getting worse.
We’re calling on Congress to stop funding ICE’s violence and rein in their terror by requiring immediate oversight and accountability. More funding means more brutality, more family separations, and more deaths at the hands of these rogue agents. It’s time to get ICE out of our communities.
Why is this important?
Masked, unidentified federal agents have been militarizing our cities and brutalizing our communities in order to carry out Trump’s extreme deportation agenda. These agents—outfitted for war—are showing up at schools, work places, immigration courts, and people’s homes, kidnapping and deporting our neighbors without any due process.
Vice President JD Vance argued that federal agents are protected by “absolute immunity” and boasted that their efforts are being ramped up, saying agents will soon be “going door to door.” This terrifying escalation of state violence makes it clear—something must change.
Our communities deserve safety, dignity, and justice. Minnesotans are showing up for Renee Nicole Good, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, Kieth Porter, 5-year-old Liam Ramos who was abducted by ICE, and countless others. Now it’s time for Congress to show up for us and put an end to this terror.
Congress can refuse to give ICE another dime and demand real accountability for the harm these agents inflict. But they need to hear from us, loudly and clearly, that we will not tolerate more funding for any agency that treats our neighbors as enemies.