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ICE Dragged Disabled U.S. Citizen From Car—Her Testimony Exposes Brutality

A disabled U.S. citizen recounts being dragged from her car by ICE, denied medical care, and smeared publicly. Her testimony raises urgent questions about federal power and accountability.

Talk of unity rings hollow after citizens killed by federal agents – Editorial – Las Vegas Sun

February 2, 2026

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Talk of unity rings hollow after citizens killed by federal agents

Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026 | 2 a.m.

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In moments of national trauma, the words of elected officials matter — not because they can undo harm, but because they signal whether those in power understand what has gone wrong and what must change. Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo’s response to the recent shootings of two U.S. citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis does neither, although we remain pleased he roused himself to comment at all in this time when Republicans pull the covers over their heads and hide from the horrors their president and their party deliver to America.

Be that as it may, the content of Lombardo’s statement is unsettling. It gestures toward calm and unity while sidestepping the brutal facts of what occurred, and in doing so, it exemplifies a dangerous kind of manipulative political evasion.

In a statement last week, Lombardo said he and his wife were “distressed” by the events in Minnesota. He called for protecting the right to assemble “safely and peaceably” and urged Americans to lower the temperature of the national debate by “listening more to people who hold different viewpoints.”

These are pleasant sentiments, but in this context they ring hollow. The problem in Minneapolis is not a failure of civility among protesters or a lack of listening among the broader public. It is the conduct of federal agents who, in the face of peaceful protesters doing nothing more than exercising their constitutional rights, chose to become the violent aggressors they claim to abhor.

Against this backdrop, Lombardo’s call to protect the right to assemble safely and peacefully, and to listen to each other, is not only too little, too late, but also a tragic bastardization of the threat now faced by every person who calls the United States home.

Federal agents were not protecting the right to assemble when they tackled Alex Pretti to the ground and shot him in the back. They were not “listening” when Renée Good calmly told an agent, “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you,” moments before that agent shot her in the head and killed her.

Any serious response to the tragedies must begin with recognition that, in both cases, it was the federal agents, acting under the guidance and leadership of President Donald Trump and his minions, who broke the peace, refused to listen and made the situation unsafe, not the other way around.

Yet Lombardo’s statement quickly pivoted away from these killings and toward a reaffirmation of his “unwavering support” for Trump’s immigration agenda, including border security and the removal of violent and repeat criminal offenders. In the abstract, that position is uncontroversial. The United States has a right to enforce its laws and to prioritize public safety. But the abstraction bears little resemblance to reality as it is currently unfolding.

Demonstrator holds signs during a protest outside the office of Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on Monday, Jan. 26, 2026, in Minneapolis, after Alex Pretti was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol officer over the weekend. Photo by: Adam Gray / AP

Alex Pretti and Renée Good were not violent criminals. Nor were they attempting to cross the border illegally. They were American citizens who were killed for exercising their constitutional rights. Period. Full stop.

Lombardo’s detachment from reality becomes even more glaring when viewed alongside the broader sweep of federal immigration enforcement. It strains credulity to suggest that the 2-month-old infant held in a Texas detention center is a public safety threat. The same is true of the 5-year-old detained earlier this month in Minnesota and transferred to Texas, the 7-year-old detained when her parents took her to a Portland, Ore., hospital or the 6-year-old taken from his home in Chicago during “Operation Midway Blitz.”

According to reporting by the Marshall Project, at least 3,800 children under 18 — including 20 infants — were booked into ICE custody during the first 10 months of Trump’s second term. Save the occasional teen, none of them are violent criminals of any kind.

Criticizing Lombardo for ignoring these realities is not an inherently partisan exercise. Lombardo may have supported Trump’s most dangerous and threatening policies, but that is not the reason for our critique today. Our criticism is of his tone-deaf leadership, startling lack of empathy and complete inability to understand the consequences of current federal policy under Trump.

There is, however, a contrasting example worth noting. U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei, Nevada’s lone Republican in Congress and a Trump supporter himself, issued a statement that meets the moment with at least some clarity. Last week, Amodei called on Immigration and Customs Enforcement to pivot back to its “core mission,” to prioritize the most dangerous criminal aliens and to focus on individuals who have already received final orders of removal after due process.

More importantly, Amodei paired rhetoric with action. Using his seat on the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, he has pushed for the use of body cameras to become standard for ICE and related federal agents operating in American communities. Such cameras would protect officers, provide transparency and create an objective record when force is used. They are a concrete step toward accountability for federal agents and violent protesters alike.

The contrast could not be clearer. Lombardo offered language that obscures responsibility and distorts reality. Amodei confronted the problem directly, acknowledging both the need for enforcement and the necessity of oversight and accountability. At a time when federal power is increasingly exercised with deadly consequences, Nevada’s Republican leaders have shown two very different models of response.

Of course, any response from a GOP leader that challenges, or even questions, the Trump administration is a welcome surprise. Too often over the past nine years, Republican leaders have more closely resembled bootlicking lapdogs looking for handouts than proud Americans and independent policymakers looking to work hard for a prosperous nation.

Indeed, Lombardo and Amodei deserve some praise for speaking out against their king. Lombardo’s tone-deaf statements are better than silence, and Amodei even appears to understand the issues at stake and the need for immediate changes to ICE operations.

We hope that both men will continue to speak out in favor of accountability for federal agents and the leaders who provide their marching orders. But we also hope that voters hold them, and every other MAGA Republican, accountable for beating the drum for Trump as he led the nation down the tragic path on which we now find ourselves.

 Editor’s Note: An important editorial from The Las Vegas Sun. Posted fully to share. –DrWeb

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From #Wikipedia: Internment of Japanese Americans

"During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (#WRA), mostly in the western interior of the country. About two-thirds were U.S. citizens.

"These actions were initiated by Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, following the outbreak of war with the Empire of Japan in December 1941. About 127,000 Japanese Americans then lived in the continental U.S., of which about 112,000 lived on the West Coast. About 80,000 were Nisei ('second generation'; American-born Japanese with #USCitizenship) and Sansei ('third generation', the children of Nisei). The rest were Issei ('first generation') immigrants born in Japan, who were ineligible for citizenship. In Hawaii, where more than 150,000 Japanese Americans comprised more than one-third of the territory's population, only 1,200 to 1,800 were incarcerated.

"#Internment was intended to mitigate a security risk which Japanese Americans were believed to pose. The scale of the incarceration in proportion to the size of the Japanese American population far surpassed similar measures undertaken against German and Italian Americans who numbered in the millions and of whom some thousands were interned, most of these non-citizens. Following the executive order, the entire West Coast was designated a military exclusion area, and all Japanese Americans living there were taken to assembly centers before being sent to concentration camps in California, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Arkansas. Similar actions were taken against individuals of Japanese descent in Canada. Internees were prohibited from taking more than they could carry into the camps, and many were forced to sell some or all of their property, including their homes and businesses. At the camps, which were surrounded by barbed wire fences and patrolled by armed guards, internees often lived in overcrowded barracks with minimal furnishing."

[...]

Prior use of internment camps in the United States

"The United States Government had previously employed civilian internment policies in a variety of circumstances. During the 1830s, civilians of the indigenous #CherokeeNation were evicted from their homes and detained in 'emigration depots' in Alabama and Tennessee prior to the deportation to Oklahoma following the passage of the #IndianRemovalAct in 1830. Similar internment policies were carried out by U.S. territorial authorities against the #Dakota and #Navajo peoples during the American Indian Wars in the 1860s.

"In 1901, during the Philippine–American War, General J. Franklin Bell ordered the detainment of #Filipino civilians in the provinces of Batangas and Laguna into U.S. Army-run #ConcentrationCamps in order to prevent them from collaborating with #Filipino General Miguel Malvar's guerrillas; over 11,000 people died in the camps from malnutrition and disease."

Read more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans
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#SupremeCourt Allows #Trump to Use 1798 Wartime Law to #Deport People

The nation's highest court backed Trump's use of the #AlienEnemiesAct to speed up #deportations

by Charisma Madarang, April 8, 2025

"The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a massive win on Monday, voting 5-4 to allow his administration to continue rapidly deporting alleged gang members using the Alien Enemies Act.
The law, passed in 1798, gives presidents the authority to remove foreign nationals over the age of 14 from countries where the United States is either engaged in a declared war or subject to “invasion or predatory incursion” by their country of origin. The act has been invoked three times in U.S. history, each time during wartime, and is meant to counter the actions of foreign governments and regimes, not alleged criminals, gangs, or non-state actors. The law was also used to justify Japanese internment during WWII, and now, the Trump administration is using it to justify its deportations.
In an unsigned opinion, the Supreme Court tossed a district court decision that had temporarily blocked President Trump’s attempt to continue using the 227-year-old law after he sent almost 300 Venezuelan migrants to a notorious prison in #ElSalvador, known for human rights abuses.

"All nine justices agreed, however, that anyone the administration is seeking to deport under the Alien Enemies Act must receive notice of deportation and be given the opportunity to challenge the removal through '#habeas petitions' — meaning that migrants have the right to have their detention or deportation reviewed by the federal court, but only for themselves and in the area where they are being detained.

"The court’s three liberal justices dissented from the ruling, while Justice #AmyConeyBarrett, who was appointed by Trump, partially dissented. Barrett joined Justice #SoniaSotomayor’s dissent calling the majority’s legal conclusion 'suspect' and questioning if habeas claims should be the only way to contest deportations under the act.

"'The Court’s legal conclusion is suspect,' wrote #Sotomayor. 'The Court intervenes anyway, granting the Government extraordinary relief and vacating the District Court’s order on that basis alone.'"

Read more:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/supreme-court-ruling-alien-enemies-act-1798-trump-1235312485/

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#DemocracyNow: “Detained Without Evidence”: Maryland Father Remains in #ElSalvador Prison After #SCOTUS Ruling

Story April 08, 2025

"The Supreme Court has paused a lower court order that instructed the Trump administration to immediately bring back a U.S. #LegalResident who was 'mistakenly' sent to #ElSalvador, giving the court more time to deliberate on the case. #KilmarAbregoGarcia, who was expelled from the U.S. on March 15 despite holding protected status, will continue to languish under dangerous conditions in a Salvadoran maximum-security prison. The Trump administration claims it’s powerless to bring him back to his family in Maryland.

"'They have dug in their heels at every step of the way,' says Abrego Garcia’s lawyer, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, about the government’s defense. 'It’s ridiculous that this case is at the Supreme Court at all.'

"Behind Abrego Garcia’s ICE arrest and removal is Trump’s invocation of the #1798AlienEnemiesAct, a wartime authority last deployed during #WorldWarII. In a separate ruling, the Supreme Court has approved of the Trump administration’s removals of #Venezuelan #immigrants, but said that those targeted must be given an opportunity to challenge their removal. So far, immigrants expelled to El Salvador have been largely denied their legal rights and detained without clear evidence.

"They are then incarcerated in the country’s '#MegaPrisons,' where [#HumanRights] abuses have flourished under El Salvador’s 'state of exception.' 'These conditions constitute, under international law, #ForcedDisappearances,' says Noah Bullock, executive director of Cristosal, a human rights organization in @CentralAmerica."

Listen / watch / read transcript:
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/8/supreme_court_el_salvador_ice
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