The new reports on the shooting….
The shooter was a Border Patrol officer….
Not ICE agent…
It appears the victim,Alex Pretti , WAS armed in the initial encounter….
The weapon was taken FROM the victim….
AFTERWARDS the victim and several CBP officers wrestled with the victim who went down with them….
The victim THEN shot several times in the back……
The political situation has Republicans shaking their heads and acknowledging that SOMETHING WILL have to be done to de-escalate the political fallout….
The emendate move for next week will probably involve cutting funding and limiting Stephen Miller’s/Trump’s anti-immigtaion campaign….
Trump’s wanting a PR response simply won’t work….
At this rate with protest’s GROWING there ARE gonna be More silence confrontations….
“President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation campaign is starting to make some Republicans uneasy,” Politico reports.
“As midterms approach, GOP lawmakers, candidates, strategists and people close to the White House are warning that the administration’s mass deportations policy — and the wall-to-wall coverage of enforcement operations, arrests of U.S. citizens and clashes between protesters and federal officials — could cost them their razor-thin House majority.”
“A new Politico poll underscores those worries: Nearly half of all Americans — 49 percent — say Trump’s mass deportation campaign is too aggressive, including 1 in 5 voters who backed the president in 2024. In a sign of growing discomfort among the president’s base, more than 1 in 3 Trump voters say that while they support the goals of his mass deportation campaign, they disapprove of the way he is implementing it.”
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“Bipartisan legislation to fund a broad swath of the government and avert a shutdown at the end of the week appeared to be in grave danger on Saturday, as key Senate Democrats vowed to oppose it after federal agents shot and killed a Minneapolis resident,” the New York Times reports.
“Recognizing the depth of Democratic outrage, Senate Republicans immediately began examining whether they could separate the homeland security funding from the rest of the package and preserve the bulk of what had been a bipartisan deal to fund a large chunk of the government.”
“The measure also funds the Pentagon and State Department, as well as health, education, labor and transportation programs.”
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Federal agents claimed Alex Pretti forced their hand, alleging he “violently resisted” disarmament until the officers fired “defensive shots,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Bystander footage appears to tell a different story. A frame-by-frame review by The Wall Street Journal shows a federal officer pulling a handgun away from Pretti. Less than a second later, an agent fires several rounds. Pretti died at the scene.”
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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) called the events in Minneapolis “incredibly disturbing,” signaling that the killing of Alexander Pretti has troubled some Republican senators as well as Democrats, who have loudly denounced it, the Washington Post reports.
Said Cassidy: “The credibility of ICE and DHS are at stake. There must be a full joint federal and state investigation. We can trust the American people with the truth.”
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“If we don’t change our approach, it will have a negative effect on the midterms, for sure.”
— Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), quoted by Politico.
Note…..
Nothing is gonna change if Stephen Miller is still operating in the Trump White House…..
Update…..
Judge Rules ICE Raids Require Judicial Warrants
“A federal judge in Minnesota ruled last Saturday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents violated the Fourth Amendment after they forcibly entered a Minnesota man’s home without a judicial warrant,” Wired reports.
“The conduct of the agents closely mirrors a previously undisclosed ICE directive that claims agents are permitted to enter people’s homes using an administrative warrant, rather than a warrant signed by a judge.”
This is answer to the DHS lawyers who decided they could ‘freelance’ home break-in’s….