Posted on 01/08/2026 7:46:56 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A day after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a 37-year-old US citizen in Minneapolis, Democrats on Capitol Hill are demanding restraints on the agency Donald Trump has empowered to carry out his mass deportation campaign – and some are threatening to use the next funding deadline to force those changes.
Democrats sharply condemned the Trump administration over the killing of Renee Nicole Good, demanding accountability after the president; JD Vancethe vice-president; and the secretary of homeland security, Kristi Noem repeatedly claimed that the officer acted in “self-defense”.
Videos taken from multiple angles show Good behind the wheel, reversing her car and then attempting to drive away when an agent shoots her multiple times, remaining on his feet and walking away, apparently uninjured.
“Democrats cannot vote for a [Department of Homeland Security] budget that doesn’t restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency,” Chris Murphy, a Democratic senator of Connecticut, wrote on X, sharing a video of the shooting.
Axios reported on Thursday that Murphy was preparing to introduce a sweeping reform package that would require a warrant for arrests, ban agents from wearing masks during enforcement operations and limit border patrol agents from operating in cities far from the border.
Many Democrats are loath to trigger another shutdown fight after a protracted and bruising showdown last year over healthcare subsidies. Some Democrats remain skittish on the issue of immigration, having argued that progressive slogans like “Abolish ICE” helped Trump climb back to power by promising a sweeping crackdown.
But public opinion has shifted as Trump escalates what has become an increasingly violent federal enforcement campaign, and as images circulate of masked agents with rifles arresting immigrants at car washes, courthouses and even residential buildings.
Reports of another federal officer-involved shooting in Portland, Oregon, late on Thursday are likely to...
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accountability? Sure. Why was this nutjob allowed to block a street. Where were the police?
The Democrat Party is the Crime Party
They realize they don’t have the House or Senate, right? 🤣
Congress is lawless; let’s cut their funding.
Lying s**tpiles.
Don’t worry, Rand will help them out
The Communist writers from The Grauniad have outdone their usual lies this time.
The margins are razor thin...
(The Democrat Party is the Crime Party)
The Democrat Party is the Party of Satan too
They seem to be covering all of the bases
As a resident of the peoples republic of Connecticut, Chris Murphy is just a useful idiot. A while back, I called his office to voice my displeasure at some comments he had made. I explained the reason for my call to the person who answered the phone, cited his comments, and some facts to dispute them. The caretaker immediately told me I must’ve been getting my information from some fake news/right wing propaganda outlet because Chris Murphy would never have said anything like that. She also wanted to know where I got the information from. I told her to literally go on his official Senate website, click on the press release section and watch one to click on. There was an awkward pause where she didn’t say anything, and you could also hear the faint sound of a computer keyboard in the background and her talking to someone else. Presumably, she just put her hand over the handset out of nowhere, she just hung up the call.
I’m not sure what’s worse, the guardian or the Minneapolis red star, or whatever the local conservatives called that rag.
The fiction writers at the Grauniad suckle at the laps of their Musloid masters.
The Minnemogadishu Red Star fiction writers are Commies.
Backing up to get up some speed and going directly at an ICE agent. They make it sound like she was trying to comply and get out of the way.
Yep. We don't hate the media enough.
Jocelyn Nungaray, only 12 when she was raped and murdered by two illegal aliens from Venezeuala
Trump has the power of the veto.
Good luck minority party.
Union activists. Until they went off the clock.
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