On January 7, 2026, an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen, during an immigration enforcement action in Minneapolis. Saturday, January 24, 2026, Alex Pretti was surrounded, pepper sprayed, beaten, shot repeatedly, and killed by agents. Mr. Pretti had put himself between agents and a woman an agent had violently pushed to the ground and had not drawn his lawfully registered and concealed handgun. Mr. Pretti was a U.S. citizen as well, a nurse who worked with veterans.

Since Ms. Good’s death—and again after Mr. Pretti’s killing this weekend—Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) continue to double down. They continue to use unlawful stops and seizures and unlawful, excessive force against people in their path, including Americans exercising core First Amendment rights, and they have done it without regard to immigration status. And when these encounters end in death, the federal response is the same: immediate, self-serving narratives that do not match what the public can see with their own eyes.