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.”

Tell the United States Senate:

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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