last month, America watched in horror as Federal immigration officers shot and killed, in two separate incidents, U.S. citizens as part of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis. Renee Good and Alex Pretti should still be with us today. Remember why we went there? The stated purpose, according to the Trump administration, was very clear and understandable. We were going after the rapists, murderers, terrorists, child predators, and criminally insane who had come across the border illegally during the Biden administration. They were to be found and removed and held accountable for their conduct. No matter where you are on the political spectrum, that mission sounded sensible. Why would we ever allow those dangerous people in the country either by accident or intention, and why wouldn't we do everything we could to remove them? The President promised he was going after "the worst of the worst"--"the worst of the worst." So two people in Minneapolis lost their lives. Were they "the worst of the worst"? Renee Good, mother of three, and Alex Pretti, a nurse at the VA hospital in Minneapolis, an extraordinary person, as we have come to know--American citizens, both--neither one of them fit the categories that the President railed against during his rallies and campaign.
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Addressing the fatal incidents involving U.S. citizens during immigration enforcement operations.
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