Minnesota governor pressures president to end surge of immigration officers in his state before it costs another life
Minnesota governor pressures president to end surge of immigration officers in his state before it costs another life
Minnesota governor Tim Walz appealed to Donald Trump to withdraw federal agents from Minnesota on Sunday, a day after US border patrol officers shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse who was monitoring the immigration crackdown.
“What’s the plan, Donald Trump?” Walz asked at a news conference. “What do we need to do to get these federal agents out of our state?”
“President Trump, you can end this today. Pull these folks back; do humane, focused, effective immigration control – you’ve got the support of all of us to do that,” Walz said. “Please show some decency. Pull these folks out”.
Walz, who is not seeking re-election this year, offered an impassioned plea to the US public, many of whom have been caught between supporting immigration control and opposing actions of its enforcement under the Trump administration in the interior.
With both sides of the debate attempting to claim the moral high ground in the aftermath of the killings of Pretti and Renee Good, 17 days earlier, Walz appealed to the public , saying that even if it they once sided with ICE operations, the time had come to oppose them.
“Which side do you want to be on?” Walz asked. “The side of an all-powerful federal government that could kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets, or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such government,” referring to Pretti.
Earlier, border patrol commander Gregory Bovino offered a sermon about individual choice, implicitly referring to Pretti.
