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DHS officials shot and killed VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minnesota this week. This is the second killing and third civilian shot in just the first few weeks of 2026 in Minneapolis. (Octavio JONES / AFP via Getty Images)

Minnesota fights to hold ICE accountable

Andy Mannix - ProPublica

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commander at Large Gregory Bovino speaks during a news conference at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal on January 25, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The news conference comes after 37-year-old legal observer Alex Pretti was fatally shot during a confrontation with federal agents. The Trump administration has sent a reported 3,000 federal agents into the area, with more on the way, as they make a push to arrest undocumented immigrants in the region. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

MN launches probes into Bovino, DHS

ICE officers depart the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building on February 4, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

The staying power of mass deportations

Chauncey DeVega

Firearms store in Orem, Utah, March 2020. (George Frey/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump abolishes the Second Amendment

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Idaho governor candidate Ammon Bundy takes questions from the public on January 26, 2022 in Shelly, Idaho. Analysts are speculating that the governor bid by Bundy, a far-right activist, is part of a larger anti-establishment trend. (Photo by Natalie Behring/Getty Images)

Bundy: ICE raids are "sickening"

DHS officials shot and killed VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minnesota this week. This is the second killing and third civilian shot in just the first few weeks of 2026 in Minneapolis. (Octavio JONES / AFP via Getty Images)

CBP agents identified in Pretti shooting

J. David McSwane - ProPublica

People attend a candlelight vigil organized by healthcare workers at the site where Alex Pretti was killed on January 24, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The vigil was held to remember the lives of Pretti and Renee Good a 37-year-old mother of three children who was killed by ICE agents on January 7. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Minnesota momfluencers take on ICE

An anti-ICE protest at a Target in Minneapolis. (Madison Thorn/Anadolu via Getty Images)

A wake-up call for white Americans

Chauncey DeVega

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Members of the Proud Boys near the U.S. Supreme Court, Jan. 5, 2021. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

Trump's second term: Jan. 6, only bigger

Kirk Swearingen

DHS officials shot and killed VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minnesota this week. This is the second killing and third civilian shot in just the first few weeks of 2026 in Minneapolis. (Octavio JONES / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump calls Pretti an “agitator”

A makeshift memorial for Alex Pretti outside of the Department of Veteran Affairs in Washington, D.C. (Mandel NGAN / AFP via Getty Images)

Even the quilters are protesting ICE now

Heather Digby Parton

A life-and-death morality play is unfolding on the streets of Minneapolis and across the country as the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign intensifies. (Getty Images)

Vice signaling fuels Trump's appeal

Chauncey DeVega

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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the Department of Labor on December 16, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Biden: ICE's actions are un-American

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commander at Large Gregory Bovino speaks during a news conference at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal on January 25, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The news conference comes after 37-year-old legal observer Alex Pretti was fatally shot during a confrontation with federal agents. The Trump administration has sent a reported 3,000 federal agents into the area, with more on the way, as they make a push to arrest undocumented immigrants in the region. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Bovino booted from Border Patrol role

Border Patrol "commander at large" Gregory Bovino is flanked by his security team and protesters in Minnesota on Jan. 21, 2026. (Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump’s Minneapolis reset isn’t real

Jason Kyle Howard

A protester sits on the street with his arms up in front of a gaggle of federal agents and Minneapolis Police on W. 27th St and Nicollet Avenue in south Minneapolis after Alex Pretti was fatally shot by federal agents in the area.

Why GOP voters still love ICE

Chauncey DeVega

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Protesters hold a vigil over the spot where federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, United States, on January 24, 2026. (Photo by Arthur Maiorella/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Minnesota nice became Minnesota strong

Federal agents at an anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis after Alex Pretti's fatal shooting by Border Patrol agents on Jan. 24, 2026. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

MAGA angers the NRA

People mourn at a makeshift memorial in the area where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was shot dead by federal immigration agents earlier in the day in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 24, 2026. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images)

Gun groups sound off against ICE killing

A rosary adorns a framed photo Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive-care unit nurse who was gunned down by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis on Jan. 25, 2026. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images)

Pro-ICE church is worse than you think

Amanda Marcotte

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MINNEAPOLIS, UNITED STATES - JANUARY 21: US Customs and Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino stands in a gas station parking lot in Minneapolis, Minnesota on January 21, 2026 (Photo by Madison Thorn/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Bovino: Border Patrol are real "victims"

DHS officials shot and killed VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minnesota this week. This is the second killing and third civilian shot in just the first few weeks of 2026 in Minneapolis. (Octavio JONES / AFP via Getty Images)

Minn. nurse dead, DHS story falls apart

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