Minnesota

POGO - Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents have fired shots at people on 16 separate occasions since last July. Each time, including the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the administration declared the shootings “justified” even before an investigation was completed. These are the actions of an administration that believes it doesn’t have to answer to anyone — that believes the people have no choice but to take its baseless lies at face value. DHS must face accountability for this horrific violence. Thankfully, your senators took a pivotal step in blocking additional funding for DHS in the appropriations process this week, pressuring for urgent reform to rein in ICE. With outrage and pressure mounting across the aisle, Congress must act to protect you and your neighbors.

A federal judge in Minnesota released a list of nearly 100 court orders violated by ICE in January alone. He noted that the volume of violations is more than “some federal agencies have ... in their entire existence.” The president said that federal agents would employ “more relaxed” tactics following widespread condemnations of the deadly operations in Minnesota.... On the ICE memo that gives agents a free pass to skirt the Fourth Amendment: “The idea that the executive branch can unilaterally decide that they don’t need a warrant signed by a judge should be alarming to everyone, no matter their politics,” says POGO’s Don Bell.