(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The murder in Minneapolis of Alex Pretti - a Veterans Administration (VA) Intensive Care Nurse and Union Member with the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), by Customs and Border Patrol Agents has prompted the Nation’s top Union for Registered Nurses (RNs) - National Nurses United (NNU), to demand abolition of the agency and dissolution of its vicious and violent forces.

But whether Republican Donald Trump’s regime, which has unleashed almost 4,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agents and enforcers in the Twin Cities alone, will listen to that demand by the NNU or anyone else who opposes the Trump occupation of U.S. Cities is unlikely. 

Trump, including people high up in his Administration, wants ICE to evict millions of Immigrants from the U.S. 

He is also targeting non-Immigrant U.S. citizens like Pretti and Minnesota Poet and Activist Rebecca Good for their own demise.

Trump called Good and Pretti “domestic terrorists.” 

Videos showed Pretti never pulled out a gun.

He was occupied with his phone, recording Agents spraying chemicals on peaceful civilian observers.

He was using his medical training to try to help a female victim whom Agents had knocked to the ground.

Agents jumped him, wrestled him to the ground, disarmed him of his legally-carried pistol (he had a permit for it) and then repeatedly shot him, including shots into his back.

His murder was the last straw for NNU, whose Members have had to deal with treating ICE injury victims in both the first City ICE invaded, Los Angeles, and in the San Francisco Bay area.

They demand Congress abolish ICE and are backing that up with a week of anti-ICE protests at hospitals around the U.S.

The NNU said: “ICE and all related Immigration Enforcement Agencies have repeatedly shown through their violence, terror and lawlessness that they pose a dire public health threat to the entire country and all our communities. ICE Agents have been kidnapping hard-working people–mothers, fathers and children - and now murdered a Registered Nurse, one of the most trusted professions in the country. Nurses are trained to respond to emergent situations and this is why we are calling for urgent action to end the ICE violence in our communities. National Nurses United calls for a ‘no’ vote on the Homeland Security Appropriations Bill that is up for Senate approval and demands Congress abolish ICE entirely. We will be doing everything in our power to vote out any Elected Official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety and civil rights of our people.”

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