Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who joined Frey, said, "Our message is really clear and straightforward. We need ice out of Minnesota." (Fox News )
Klobuchar asserted that ICE is "not making us more safe as the tragic, tragic killing this morning, as people saw it viscerally on that video, shows us they are making us less safe."
She said the around 3,000 ICE and Border Patrol agents in the area outnumber the "sworn police officers in Minneapolis and St. Paul by three to one, and it’s even larger than the 10 metropolitan police departments."
"This is completely out of whack, completely out of balance," she claimed. "And now three people have been shot, two resulting in death. One: Renee Good, mother of three, and now Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Minneapolis man, a citizen, also a nurse."
Pretti was shot and killed by an ICE agent Saturday morning during an immigration enforcement operation.
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"This city has been under siege," Klobuchar added, while laying blame on the Trump administration.
Anti-ICE agitators gather in Minneapolis. (Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
She added that they had opposed a Congressional Republicans bill tripling the ICE budget last summer, which she said is now more than the FBI, and said that training for agents has been reduced from five months to 47 days.
"We are also calling for a full and transparent investigation," Klobuchar said. "We have done this before in Minnesota, coordinating with local and state and federal law enforcement. And if they're not going to do it, then they need to get out of the way and allow our very professional Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to conduct the investigation into these killings."
Frey later added in an X post: "After today’s shooting, Minneapolis is filing a declaration to push for an immediate ruling on our temporary restraining order. We need swift action to protect our city."
DHS officials said Pretti approached Border Patrol agents while armed with a 9mm pistol and "violently resisted" when they attempted to disarm him.
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Medics at the scene immediately delivered aid, but Pretti was pronounced dead at the scene.
Fox News' Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.
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