MN - Alex Pretti dead after Minneapolis shooting involving immigration agents, US media report, January 24, 2026

[Inthedetails]

LOL I've been wondering how these Texas s are faring

According to the post upthread, at least one is sitting drunk in his car wearing a bib of vomit. That's not what is meant by "wear layers!"

jmopinion

 

[nhmemorymaker]

I get that they have a professional duty to tread a line between both sides. But.......the situation would have been avoided if they had simply walked away when they lost their quarry in the donut shop, rather than choosing to assault people doing nothing more than exercising their constitutional rights.

This is the final point to me.
Totally avoidable from the get go.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

snipped and bbm:


“They’re assaulting basic democratic ideals on all fronts,” said Dana Marks, an immigration judge who retired in 2021. “It’s really just classic authoritarianism. It always starts with the minorities. It always starts with the immigrants. If we don’t stop them, it will be American citizens. Congress, the courts, the people, we should all be jumping up and down and screaming about this. We need to be screaming that this isn’t America—that this isn’t who we are.” ...

We’ve seen rapid normalization of abuses we once associated with authoritarian regimes or the old Iron Curtain countries. It’s now routine for masked, unidentifiable government agents to sweep people off the street and whisk them away in unmarked vehicles. Some of those arrested have been quickly shuttled off to detention facilities in other parts of the country without any notification to their families or attorneys. ...

The administration is also shredding due process. ...

Most alarmingly, the administration no longer feels obligated to even pretend that it’s observing norms and constitutional restrictions. “They just don’t care when judges or the public says they’re violating the law,” one longtime immigration judge, now retired, told me. ...

According to the Brennan Center, the 2025 budget for immigration enforcement already exceeds that of every other federal law enforcement agency combined.

“When law enforcement officers of any kind wear masks and withhold their identity, it smacks of tactics that are consistent with an authoritarian government,” said Magnus, the ex-police chief and former head of Border Patrol....

“I find the masking absolutely f*****g horrific,” said “Bryan,” a former high-ranking official in the DOJ. “It’s not something we do in a free society. It’s what they do under regimes we should never be emulating. ...

Stephen Miller, who has been traipsing about the fever swamps of white nationalism for years, has made it no secret that he wants to reduce immigration from nonwhite countries to zero....

In October, the DOJ announced that it would begin appointing military lawyers from the JAG Corps to serve as temporary immigration judges...The most immediate effect of the administration’s politicization of immigration courts will be in denials of asylum claims and in expedited removal orders and deportations.

[T]he administration has hollowed out the offices within DHS and DOJ that oversee detention facilities. “There’s no oversight. There’s no reporting. There’s no access,” said “Dan,” a longtime former DHS employee and immigration prosecutor. “Until this administration, if a lawyer or an NGO complained about inhumane conditions, that was something we took very seriously. Now they just don’t care. It’s fully part of the plan. They’re open about it. You put people in detention, deny them access to a lawyer, and just continue to squeeze them until they’re so miserable that they give up their rights.”

Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here

With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.

newrepublic.com

They’re assaulting basic democratic ideals on all fronts,” said Dana Marks, an immigration judge who retired in 2021. “It’s really just classic authoritarianism".
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Yep, just good ol classic authoritarianism.

And the saddest part is that these people who work hard to dig up and post clipped "alternative facts and fibs" are convincing. Our neighbors.

They really believe they are independent of this fascist authoritarianism surrounding them.

Sickening and sad. moo moo moo

 

[nhmemorymaker]

This is about yesterday, Jan 30


All over the country, protests against ICE join 'national shutdown' to stand with Minneapolis

In Seattle, Milwaukee, Cleveland and around Montana, shops closed up or pledged to donate profits.

Protesters marched in New York, California, Alaska, Maine, Missouri, Florida, North Carolina and dozens of other states.

Students walked out of class in Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas, while some schools in Arizona and Colorado pre-emptively canceled classes Friday in anticipation of mass absences.

The latest: Protests in Minneapolis, across country as ICE pushback mounts

Protesters marched in streets, students walked out of school and businesses shut their doors around the U.S. to show support for Minnesota.

www.startribune.com

Can we hope that the younger adults and college age students are finally waking up. It is THEIR COUNTRY we are talking about here.
moo

 

[nhmemorymaker]

It has been posted before....
But as anything else in this current Adminstration.... we always have to keep talking about the Money.
The Persidents personal piggy bank at work.

"With this new bill and other appropriations, (ICE) it's larger than the annual budget of all other federal law enforcement agencies combined.
GO TO the attached article to see the numbers. From 10 to 90 Billion.

When normal Americans start to realize where ALL OUR MONEY is going.... perhaps they will start to start to understand priorities better.

Always think about the money, along with the murders, violence and unacceptable behaviors.

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/21/nx-s1-5674887/ice-budget-funding-congress-trump

of course, moo, but the MONEY is fact.

 

[Inthedetails]

It has been posted before....
But as anything else in this current Adminstration.... we always have to keep talking about the Money.
The Persidents personal piggy bank at work.

"With this new bill and other appropriations, (ICE) it's larger than the annual budget of all other federal law enforcement agencies combined.
GO TO the attached article to see the numbers. From 10 to 90 Billion.

When normal Americans start to realize where ALL OUR MONEY is going.... perhaps they will start to start to understand priorities better.

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/21/nx-s1-5674887/ice-budget-funding-congress-trump

of course, moo, but the MONEY is fact.

That's a lot of fired national park workers. Wooowee, thank goodness doge fired so many federal employees last year to save taxpayer money to spend on this.

Egad.

jmopinion

 

[Gators North]

BBM Reminds me of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of the USSR that turned into utter disaster in the winter. Big mistake. Huge.

I was going to say the same thing!

 

[Charlot123]

Never invade a winter people in winter.

If you're interested in a short, pleasant, grounded explanation from one resident's perspective about why Minnesotans are resiliant in the face of the ICE surge, check out "Why Are Minnesotans So Resiliant" on the youtube channel Painting the Past. The youtuber lives in the state and is married to a Minnesotan. I am also married to a Minnesotan and found this short video pretty good (which, in Minnesotan language, is high praise).

jmopinion

It may be a wrong comparison, but in my mother country, Siberians are like this. The climate factor (harsh continental) plays the role. First, it makes people less racist and more interested in helping neighbors. Whoever survived the first winter, became “the local”. Second, people are less afraid. What used to be “the exile place” for the Russian gentry and later, became “the Gulag”, was the locals’ daily life. Where can you send them out that would be worse? You can only make their daily life impossible, like it happened in Minnesota when ICE came, but then they can stay out in the cold and protest for longer than ICE.

And btw, hot weather is also bad there, because it is a scorcher. So invading them in summer is also bad.

 

[Charlot123]

BBM Reminds me of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of the USSR that turned into utter disaster in the winter. Big mistake. Huge.

Barbarossa was the summer invasion, June 22 1941, but several things Hitler didn’t count on: 1) harsh resistance of the Soviet troops; 2) no proper roads for the tanks; 3) very early winter that year. The tank fuel getting frozen. In the meantime, all industry was evacuated from central Russia to the Ural.

But, USSR got equally stuck in Finland in the Winter War of 1939.

 

[sds71]

Judge orders 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father be released from immigration detention, source says.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2017677015151776004

 

[CrimeDawg123]

Because she was filming they drove recklessly, slammed on the brakes in front of her, then approached with weapons drawn. It's only a matter of time before they kill someone else.

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident.

The resident, a woman, had been observing and recording video of immigration enforcement actions from her car when agents removed her from her car and took her into custody.

It's believed to be the first time a local police department in Minnesota intervened in a federal law enforcement action since the surge in immigration enforcement began two months ago."

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/30/st-peter-police-chief-intervenes-prevents-federal-agents-from-arresting-resident

 

[zleuther]

Yesterday

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