09/20/2026
Ice are now unlawful. Several officers are murderers.
Democratic lawmakers are preparing to advance the “Alex Pretti Act” after the midterm elections, legislation that would strip qualified immunity from federal immigration agents and create an independent special prosecutor to investigate d*aths and misconduct inside U.S. immigration agencies.
The bill is named for Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital who was fatally sh*t by a Border Patrol agent on January 24, 2026, while observing federal immigration enforcement in the city. His k*lling came just 17 days after ICE agents fatally sh*t Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, in a separate Minneapolis encounter. Video from the scene showed Pretti being pepper-sprayed and wrestled to the ground by agents, one of whom removed a handg*n from his waistband, before two agents opened fire. Federal officials described the sh*oting as self-defense, but Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office and other investigators have said the footage they have reviewed appears to contradict that account.
Steve Schleicher, an attorney for the Pretti family, has argued that nothing in Pretti’s earlier confrontation with agents could justify his k*lling. “Nothing that happened a full week before could possibly have justified Alex’s k*lling at the hands of ICE on Jan 24,” he said. The Department of Homeland Security has maintained that the Justice Department is leading its own investigation into the sh*oting, though the DOJ has not confirmed details of that inquiry.
The proposed legislation responds to what advocates call the deadliest period for immigration detention and enforcement d*aths in more than two decades, and would expose agents to both criminal and civil liability for misconduct. Officials in Minnesota have separately sued the Trump administration, alleging federal officials have withheld evidence in the d*aths of Pretti and Good. Supporters of the bill say removing qualified immunity is necessary to restore accountability, while the administration has argued federal agents require broad legal protection to carry out immigration enforcement without fear of prosecution.
