Alex Pretti

The extrajudicial killing of another community member by ICE agents in Maine — just days after the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston — is a devastating and unacceptable escalation of violence. These are not isolated incidents; they reflect an immigration enforcement system that has become increasingly militarized, unaccountable, and willing to use deadly force against the very communities it is supposed to serve.

— Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), in a statement.

The wonderful thing now is we have all the evidence. Any time the government is responsible in whatever way of taking the life of a community member we need to have a full and thorough investigation.

— Mary Moriarty said; commenting on the turnover of evidence in the Minnesota killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti

You say you pay for me to do this? That’s bullcrap. I pay for myself. I paid enough taxes before I got here and continue to through my company to pay my own salary. This is a service. No one here pays me to go.

— Mullin said during a town hall event in Jay, Oklahoma.

Kristi Noem doesn’t know how to hold a gun or run the Department of Homeland Security.

— Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego wrote on Instagram at the time criticizing Noem’s gun safety and leadership of the DHS.