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Friend –

There are moments when words feel painfully inadequate. This is one of
them.

A man who spent his life caring for others is dead. A family is grieving a
loss that should never have happened. A community is once again left
shaken and asking how this could happen.

Just weeks after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis,
federal immigration agents have taken another life in the same city. Alex
Pretti was thirty-seven years old. He was an intensive care nurse at a VA
hospital. He showed up to protest because he believed something was deeply
wrong with what was happening in his community and across the country. He
refused to look away.

Instead of going home that night, he was shot and killed by federal
agents.

This was the all too predictable result of agencies that have been allowed
to operate with immense power and no accountability.

When federal agents know there will not be consequences, they act as if
there are no limits. When violence is excused, denied, or justified
instead of being confronted, it escalates. That is what we are witnessing
now. Two lives lost in a matter of weeks. Two families left to carry
unimaginable grief. And still, no meaningful action to stop it.

The House-passed DHS funding bill before the Senate ignores this reality.
It would send more money to ICE and Border Patrol without requiring real
reforms, real oversight, or real accountability for the violence we are
seeing unfold.

Passing this bill would be a moral failure. The Senate must reject it.

[ [link removed] ]Add your name now and demand that the Senate reject any DHS funding
bill that does not include strong accountability measures for ICE and
Border Patrol. >>

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The Senate still has a choice.

Senate Democrats have said they will not advance a funding bill that fails
to rein in DHS abuses. It's imperative that we weigh in now to reinforce
that message. All Senators must feel the full weight of public grief and
outrage over DHS violence and abuse. Silence gives cover to inaction.
Pressure forces accountability.

This cannot be about politics as usual. It must be about whether Congress
says no to funding for agencies that have shown, again and again, the
willingness to use lethal force without transparency, restraint, or
consequence. It is about whether the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good
will be treated as tragic warnings or quietly absorbed into the background
noise of another budget fight.

If the Senate allows this bill to move forward without accountability, it
sends a chilling message to federal agents on the ground that nothing will
change and that no one is watching. It tells families that their grief
will be acknowledged, then ignored. It tells communities that their lives
are expendable.

That cannot be allowed to happen.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition today and tell the Senate that no DHS funding should
move forward unless it includes real accountability for ICE and Border
Patrol. >>

Demand reforms that protect lives. Demand oversight with real
consequences. Demand action before more families are forced to mourn.

With grief and resolve,

People For the American Way

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