Melissa's Musings(My opinionated view of life)

Statement from the Reform Movement on ICE Actions and Funding | Union for Reform Judaism

Why ICE Treats Phones Like a Deadly Threat

ICE detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond | MPR News

What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids

‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini

I Was A Combat Soldier In Iraq. Here's The 1 Question Everyone Should Be Asking About ICE Right Now. | HuffPost

CBP Agents Jesus Ochoa, Raymundo Gutierrez ID’d in Alex Pretti Shooting — ProPublica The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez. See entire story at above headline link.

WaPo Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now

The Farcical Case Against Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for Reporting Two journalists, former CNN host Don Lemon and independent journalist Georgia Fort, were arrested Friday after covering a  recent protest at a Minneapolis-area church . According to the Department of Justice, Lemon’s crime was a start-to-finish livestream reporting on the protest, beginning with an organizing meeting and concluding with the protest itself at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.  See more at highlighted link above.

He Witnessed an Earlier Shooting. Feds Arrested Him at the Scene of Alex Pretti’s Killing. A man who contradicted the government narrative about a prior shooting found himself pinned to the ground and detained after Pretti’s death.  (Read more at headline link above.)

Gregory Bovino reportedly mocked US Minnesota attorney’s Jewish faith | Minnesota | The Guardian "Recently demoted border patrol official  Gregory Bovino  reportedly made mocking and sarcastic remarks about the Jewish faith of Minnesota’s US attorney, Daniel Rosen, during a phone call with prosecutors in the state earlier in January." More at above link.

Add what happened to Alex Pretti as latest shock to a haystack of last straws - Chicago Sun-Times Some are fancying that the administration dialing back rhetoric after the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis means we’ve turned a corner. We haven’t.  (More at link above)

Handling of Pretti investigation has some prosecutors on verge of quitting Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis have told U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen, the Trump administration appointee leading the office, that they feel deeply frustrated by the Justice Department’s response to the fatal shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by immigration officers and suggested that they could resign en masse, leaving the office unable to handle its current caseload, according to two officials familiar with the office. At least one prosecutor in the office’s criminal division has resigned since a meeting this week with Rosen during which the prosecutors aired their concerns, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a personnel matter that has not been made public. More at link above.

Judge questions why Trump administration still calling woman shot by Border Patrol a 'domestic terrorist' - Chicago Sun-Times

The State of Illinois Newsroom Gov. Pritzker Requests the Illinois Accountability Commission to Examine Key Trump Officials Following Bovino’s looming exit, Illinois will fight to hold Trump officials to account regardless of titles

The Border Patrol’s Legacy of Violence - The American Prospect The year is 1924, and the Immigration Act has just passed. The Ku Klux Klan is in its heyday. White supremacists use both the law and vigilante action to maintain racial hierarchy and outright push nonwhite people out of the country. This is the environment in which the Border Patrol was founded. A century later, the agency, which is under the umbrella of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), is playing a major role alongside Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda. This was perhaps never clearer than last Saturday, when two Border Patrol agents shot and killed VA nurse and observer Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.   Read more at the title link above.

Nurse Alex Pretti's Death and the Symbolism of the Human Body | MedPage Today

One person in critical condition after being shot in incident involving Border Patrol in Arizona

ICE is the gang that couldn't keep its story straight

ICE Accountability Project

ICE Unloads - Ken Klippenstein “'The best they can do is shoot the guy in the back?” That’s not the voice of some liberal commentator. That’s what a homeland security officer told me this weekend, one of over half a dozen who have reached out to express their alarm over the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis and beyond." (Read more at title link above...)