Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Sunday called for a thorough investigation into the latest fatal shooting involving a Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agent in Minneapolis, saying the American people are entitled to that “basic standard” of accountability from law enforcement. “There must be a thorough and impartial investigation into yesterday’s Minneapolis shooting, which is the basic standard...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Sunday slammed Attorney General Pam Bondi’s letter to him urging him to restore the “rule of law” by turning over information about the state’s welfare programs hours after a federal immigration agent shot and killed a local resident. Bondi’s request follows the uncovering of a massive fraud scandal in...
Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) said Sunday that federal immigration officers “do not have carte blanche” while carrying out operations in cities nationwide, in the wake of the fatal shooting of an American citizen by Border Patrol agents. Murkowski wrote on the social platform X that Saturday’s fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis...
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) urged President Trump’s MAGA base to “take off their political blinders” as she expressed skepticism about the use of force deployed during the latest shooting in Minnesota involving a federal immigration agent. In a post on the social platform X, Greene touted her support for law enforcement and immigration enforcement, but she also defended the right to legally carry firearms, indirectly pushing back on claims that 37-year-old Alex Pretti posed a threat...
Steven Nekhaila, the chair of the Libertarian National Committee, was unequivocal in the wake of a Border Patrol agent fatally shooting an American citizen in Minneapolis: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should be abolished, he said. In a lengthy statement the Libertarian Party posted Saturday to the social platform X, Nekhaila said ICE “was created...
The parents of a Minneapolis man killed by Border Patrol agents reflected on the incident in a Sunday statement while ripping the Trump administration for demonizing their son. Alex Pretti was shot and killed while attempting to help a woman who fell during protests against the Trump administration's deportation raids in Minneapolis. Authorities said the...
Former President Bill Clinton said federal immigration agents are engaging in "increasingly aggressive and antagonistic tactics" after another fatal shooting in Minnesota.
In the wake of another fatal shooting involving immigration agents, Trump administration and Minnesota officials are locked in a heated dispute over what exactly...
Gov. Tim Walz likened Minnesota immigration enforcement to the Holocaust and Anne Frank after a fatal Minneapolis shooting that killed VA nurse Alex Pretti, saying children now fear leaving home.
Taking to the streets to disrupt the lives of average citizens is antithetical to the highest virtue of republicanism, namely minding your own business.
The new TikTok deal allows China’s ByteDance to keep 19.9% of the company, gripes National Review’s Jim Geraghty, a “complete violation of the law” that...
