ICE kills another person in Minneapolis

The Socialist Bulletin Staff - 25/1/2026

IMMIGRATION and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the largest 'law enforcement' agency in the United States, has murdered another person in Minneapolis, almost 500km by car from the nearest international border.

This comes following the murder of Renee Good just over two weeks ago, and the murder of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis just over 1 week ago, and represents an increasing trend in the city for the brutal killing of protestors.

The man killed has been identified as Mr Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse and a citizen of the US, leaving him entirely out of the purview of ICE. This represents the ongoing transformation of ICE from a gang of murderers 'protecting' the US border from the working class that happened to be born across an arbitrary line, to a gang of murderers providing the service of political police for the Trump regime.

The US regime has claimed that Mr Pretti was carrying a gun and intended to 'massacre' ICE thugs, however even analysis by groups and organisations sympathetic to the US regimes of the Democrats and Republicans, such as the New York Times, found that the 'gun' Pretti was carrying was in fact a mobile phone. The attempt by the US regime to justify their militia's killing is extremely ludicrous, and it is visible even to the public in America that the regime is lying.