Political battles ensue afer second Minnesota shooting

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Mr Pretti's phone contains video because he was filmed by others filming the border patrol action.
52% : "Absolutely, I have done that myself and fully support that, but not when you perpetrate violence, obstruct, delay or obfuscate border patrol in the performance of their duties.
52% : Border patrol agents may (or may not) have their own bodycam video.
50% : But he also could not answer the question of whether Mr Pretti had "brandished" a gun at the border patrol officers.
45% : The claims were made by Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and the so-called "commander at large" of the Border Patrol agency, Gregory Bovino, who is the public face of the immigration operations in Minnesota.
45% : Ms Klobuchar said there had been "three killings in Minneapolis since the beginning of the year", adding two were "committed by federal agents" - one by an ICE agent and the other by border control.
45% : He also called on Congress to pass legislation to outlaw the practice of sanctuary cities and states.
44% : The political anger was immediately on display, with several Democratic senators saying they absolutely will not vote for the funding bill that is due before them this week as it provides funding for ICE, border patrol and the Department of Homeland Security (the funding head).
43% : "That should be the narrative that we're talking about, is that what we have is ICE doing isolated operations to get criminals off the street with zero cooperation from the governor, from leadership in Congress or from the mayor.
43% : "That is what is so tragic about what happened yesterday and what's been happening in Minneapolis for the past several weeks is that ICE is doing all of this work, doing their jobs and local law enforcement are not being allowed to do a single thing to help.
41% : " This probe looked into the shooting of an unarmed woman by an ICE agent in Minneapolis - the event which spared the surge in protests over the immigration clampdown.
40% : "The suspect put himself in that situation, the victims are the border patrol agents.
39% : The gunning down of Alex Pretti by border patrol agents outside a Minneapolis coffee shop at around 9am on Saturday morning was traumatic for those who witnessed it in person.
38% : The victims are the border patrol agents.
36% : "60-70% of Americans don't support what ICE is doing and they don't want Democrats or Republicans to fund this kind of lawlessness in our cities.
34% : Mr Blanche said: "That was a very violent occurrence because ICE cannot do their job effectively when law enforcement, local law enforcement, refuses to help.
29% : "I'm not blaming the border patrol agents, the victims are the border patrol agents.
29% : " The president has called on Mr Walz and the mayor of Minneapolis to place all convicted illegal immigrants to prison or in police custody to ICE agents, and for Minneapolis police to cooperate with ICE and border patrol raids.
26% : The current Governor, Tim Walz - who ran for vice president on the Kamala Harris ticket in 2024 - is not running again after the uncovering of a massive, multi-billion dollar social welfare fraud allegedly committed by Somali immigrants or their children, which happened on Mr Walz's watch.
10% : " Mr Markey described ICE as a "rogue agency that Trump is threatening to send to other cities all across our country".
2% : He blamed Democrat run "sanctuary cities" and states for causing the protests and ensuing violence by refusing to work with ICE and border patrol Mr Trump said; "Democrat run Sanctuary Cities and States are REFUSING to cooperate with ICE, and they are actually encouraging Leftwing Agitators to unlawfully obstruct their operations to arrest the Worst of the Worst People!

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