On Saturday morning, federal agents — operating under the increasingly
preposterous ruse of “immigration enforcement” — murdered another American citizen in Minneapolis.

The name of the man killed in cold blood by Trump’s masked, unidentified thugs
is Alex Pretti. He is the second person summarily executed in broad daylight by
federal agents paid with taxpayer dollars in Minneapolis this month, following
the murder of Renee Good on January 7.

At least three dozen other people have died in ICE custody since the start of
2025. Just days ago, the death of a Cuban immigrant, Geraldo Lunas Campos, at an
ICE detention compound in Texas was officially ruled a homicide. The county
medical examiner determined that the cause of death was asphyxiation by law
enforcement personnel.

The lawless, ragtag goon squads of DHS, ICE, and the like are not making America
safer. And they are not performing anything approaching a legitimate law
enforcement purpose. Rather, they are carrying out the Trump regime’s white
supremacist project and terrorizing the American people.

And they are doing it with an insane amount of our taxpayer dollars:

* Last year, the absurdly named “Big Beautiful Bill” — passed by Trump’s
Republican minions in Congress — allocated $170 billion (that’s billion with
a ‘b’) over the next four years for the regime’s racist and brutal
immigration crackdown.

* That wildly excessive and unprecedented spending was paid for by massive cuts
to Medicaid and other federal programs that millions upon millions of
Americans rely on.

* ICE is now the largest and most expensive law enforcement agency in America,
with a budget greater than that of every other federal law enforcement
agency, including the FBI, combined.

* In fact, the U.S. is now spending more on ICE than all but a handful of other
nations spend on their entire military .

Meanwhile, the United States House of Representatives — under the “leadership”
of Trump sycophant Mike Johnson — just voted to authorize $64 billion more for
ICE. That proposal is now in the Senate.

We need to get as many senators as possible to use this moment to take a stand
against the Trump regime’s out-of-control immigration “policies.”

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Masked federal agents — in the name of “immigration enforcement” — are killing
American citizens in cold blood and operating so recklessly that the people they
are detaining are dying by the dozens. And now they think they deserve billions
and billions more in taxpayer dollars? Do not rubber-stamp $64 billion more for
ICE. Require ICE to get out of Minneapolis and other cities. Demand that Customs
and Border Protection agents return to the actual border. Require judicial
warrants for all arrests and home invasions. Do not allow our taxes to be used
for the detention of children and families.
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