U.S. President Donald Trump is facing one of the most serious tests to date of his aggressive immigration crackdown over the actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis following the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by an ICE agent on Saturday.

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The Front Line of the U.S. Immigration Battle

U.S. President Donald Trump is facing one of the most serious tests to date of his aggressive immigration crackdown over the actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis following the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by an ICE agent on Saturday.

The death marked the second killing of a U.S. citizen by an ICE agent in that city since the Trump administration surged agents there in early December. On Jan. 7, an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good.

Good’s death provoked outrage not just in Minneapolis but in cities across the country, with demonstrators taking to the streets to protest against the Trump administration’s broader immigration enforcement campaign, includi

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