The Intercept is using the Freedom of Information Act to investigate and expose the truth about the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and identify the officials most responsible for the egregious patterns of lethal violence and civil rights violations unfolding before our eyes.



On Saturday, Customs and Border Protection agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, and within moments, the Trump administration began pushing yet another flood of lies smearing the victim and covering up the truth.

Federal agents on the scene blocked local investigators from accessing the crime scene. The Department of Homeland Security is blocking Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from reviewing evidence. They’re even refusing to reveal the names of the shooters who killed Alex Pretti.

This must not stand. Period.

The Intercept is using the Freedom of Information Act to investigate and expose the truth about the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and identify the officials most responsible for the egregious patterns of lethal violence and civil rights violations unfolding before our eyes.

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The CBP shooting of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse with the Department of Veterans Affairs, came just weeks after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Renee Good, and a day after tens of thousands of people in Minneapolis braved subzero temperatures to march against weeks of rolling immigration enforcement raids by federal agencies.

DHS claims Pretti was threatening federal agents with a gun. Video footage and sworn eyewitness declarations contradict that narrative.

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