Minnesotans honour two slain during ICE operations with massive midterm win
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Mother-of-three Renee Good and nurse Alex Pretti were shot and killed by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minnesota on January 7.
Mother-of-three Renee Good and nurse Alex Pretti were shot and killed by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minnesota on January 7.
Their deaths broke the hearts of locals but strengthened the resolve of thousands protesting ICE agents who had flooded to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul for the six-week-long Operation Metro Surge as part of Donald Trump’s sweeping deportation efforts.
While they were honoured with memorials at the site of their deaths, the Trump administration defended the shooting of Good as self-defence and labelled Pretti a domestic terrorist.
The operation which struck fear in Minnesotans ended in February with the international controversy becoming an afterthought for most of the world, but not for Twin Citians.
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