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**JANUARY 28, 2026**

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The open letter Minnesota’s biggest and most powerful companies published this week in response to the immigration agent who executed Alex Pretti is some weak gruel. It fails to name Pretti, or that a federal agent murdered him, or say why the agents are in the Twin Cities. It’s so squeamish that it refers to Trump’s death squads as “the recent challenges facing our state,” a euphemism every bit as dishonest as the old Southern habit of calling the U.S. Civil War “the recent unpleasantness.”

The CEOs who signed the letter also failed to acknowledge that many of them enabled the immigration terror [link removed] ripping through the state they say they love. They lobbied directly for Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which gave more money to his deportation project than ever before in history, more than $170 billion. Minnesotans deserve to know where the state’s CEOs interests really lie, so they can proceed accordingly.

**–Whitney Curry Wimbish, staff writer**

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Minnesota CEOs Cry Crocodile Tears Over ICE [link removed]

**By Whitney Curry Wimbish and David Dayen**

Dozens of Minnesota-based corporate executives issued an open letter [link removed] this week urging an “immediate deescalation of tensions” after an immigration agent executed legal observer and ICU nurse Alex Pretti last Saturday. 

The 79 CEOs and trade group leaders referred to President Trump’s terror campaign without naming it directly, citing “the recent challenges,” and claimed they have been hard at work “every day behind the scenes with federal, state and local officials to advance real solutions,” though they did not specify anything they had done. Instead, they said only that they “have been working for generations to build a strong and vibrant state here in Minnesota.”

They failed to mention that they were instrumental in bringing Operation Metro Surge to Minnesota, through their public support and active lobbying of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The law allocated more than $170 billion [link removed] over four years to deport one million immigrants annually. Congress had already appropriated $10 billion to ICE when the law dropped; the additional money nearly tripled its funding for 2025 alone to almost $29 billion.

Immigration agents have killed at least eight people [link removed] and wounded nine more nationwide during their extended terror campaign, while causing at least 32 others to die in detention camps.

The Big Beautiful Bill paid for what ICE acting director Todd Lyons called its “largest immigration operation ever,” including sending 3,000 agents to the Twin Cities—five times [link removed] the number of Minneapolis Police Department cops.  

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