After the death of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, about a dozen senior immigration officials “tell me they have grown increasingly uneasy & frustrated with some of the claims & narratives DHS pushed in the aftermath of the shooting,” reports Bill Melugin on X.
Minneapolis beat: Homeland Security’s Bunglers
After the death of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, about a dozen senior immigration officials “tell me they have grown increasingly uneasy & frustrated with some of the claims & narratives DHS pushed in the aftermath of the shooting,” reports Bill Melugin on X. “While they say it was a terrible decision to show up with a gun and inject himself” into the situation, “there is no indication Pretti was there to murder law enforcement.” Rather it seems “the disarmed firearm may have had an accidental discharge that spooked the agents, and they shot.” Although widely in “support of the deportation agenda,” these insiders worry “about the way it is being carried out,” “the messaging that comes with it” and “that ICE is routinely blamed for the actions of Border Patrol, a completely separate agency.”Eye on energy: Greenies’ Deep-Freeze Rx
“The weekend’s arctic blast has put much of the U.S. grid through a stress test and served as another alert about the growing risks to electric-power reliability,” explain The Wall Street Journal’s editors. “Americans can be grateful the Biden crowd didn’t succeed in forcing all coal plants to shut down” as “grid operators, the utilities and the Trump Energy Department had to pull out all stops to keep the lights and heat on for tens of millions of Americans” — even waiving “emissions rules so fossil-fuel plants could run at maximum capacity.
