by Mike Ludwig | Jan 27, 2026 | Alex Pretti, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Donald Trump, Fort Bliss, ICE, Immigrant Jails, immigration, Kristi Noem, Migrant Jails, News, Renee Nicole Good, Texas, Trump Administration
Immigrant rights advocates and elected Democrats are calling on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to shut down an immigrant jail outside of El Paso, Texas. New evidence calls into question the official narratives about the recent deaths of two men held at Camp East Montana, a sprawling tent city at the Fort Bliss Army base in West Texas. Geraldo Lunas Campos and Victor Manuel Diaz are…
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by Sharon Zhang | Jan 27, 2026 | Abolish ICE, Alex Pretti, Delia Ramirez, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, News, Renee Nicole Good
Amid growing calls for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), one House Democrat is calling for the entire Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to be dismantled. In a social media post on Monday about federal officers’ killings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, Rep. Delia C. Ramirez, a Democrat representing part of Chicago, pointed out that DHS’s purpose since its…
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by Sharon Zhang | Jan 27, 2026 | Alex Pretti, Customs and Border Patrol, Department of Homeland Security, Donald Trump, ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Kristi Noem, News, Renee Nicole Good
Impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have gained dozens of cosponsors in just the past few days, as the horrific Border Patrol killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis spurs a major decline in support for the administration’s immigration raids among lawmakers. The articles now have over 140 House cosponsors, a major increase from 111 on Friday. Rep.
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by Theia Chatelle | Jan 26, 2026 | Alex Pretti, ICE, immigration, Minneapolis, Minnesota, News, Organizing, Policing, Protests, Renee Nicole Good, Resistance, Trump Administration
Minneapolis — The air above Nicollet Avenue was filled with tear gas and mist from demonstrators’ breath on the morning of Saturday, January 24, after a group of masked federal agents gunned down 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti, who had stopped to record an arrest in progress. After the Trump administration sicced thousands of federal immigration agents on the Twin Cities, Pretti’…
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by Chris Walker | Jan 26, 2026 | Alex Pretti, Customs and Border Protection, Minneapolis, Minnesota, News, Renee Nicole Good
A pediatrician who attempted to save the life of Alex Pretti, a Minneapolis ICU nurse who was shot and killed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents this past weekend, has alleged that agents denied Pretti medical care for several minutes after the shooting took place. The witness’s version of events is detailed in a filing with a Minnesota-based federal court. The witness…
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by Patrick O. Strickland | Jan 26, 2026 | American Imperialism, Donald Trump, Europe, immigration, Nicolás Maduro, Op-Ed, Palestine, Renee Nicole Good, Trump Administration, UNHCR, US Mexico border, Venezuela
After a year of gutting the United States government, deploying armed jackboots to American cities, and bombing at least seven countries, the Trump administration kicked off 2026 by invading Venezuela and kidnapping its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. In the wake of that assault, President Trump doubled down on his abandonment of the isolationist positions he once supposedly…
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