Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., indicated the stakes are high for the U.S. after the latest deadly shooting by immigration officers on Saturday.
Department of Homeland Security officials have called Pretti a “domestic terrorist” who intended to shoot immigration agents. While he was carrying a gun, videos of the incident show he wasn’t brandishing it at officers, and law enforcement confirmed he had a permit.
It marked the third shooting by a federal agent in Minnesota alone this month and the second deadly one. Similar shootings have taken place in other cities during Trump’s immigration crackdown.
She was among the Democrats in the House who urged their counterparts in the Senate to block an appropriations bill that includes DHS agencies like ICE and Border Patrol.
On Saturday, Trump blamed the shooting on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey because they demanded that immigration agents leave the city.
“The Mayor and the Governor are inciting Insurrection, with their pompous, dangerous, and arrogant rhetoric!” he wrote on social media.
