The GOP has taken a mixed response to President Donald Trump‘s efforts to tamp down violent interactions between Minnesota protesters and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Many Republicans championed Trump sending border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota in the aftermath of a second protester’s death over the weekend. But other MAGA supporters have slammed Trump’s […]

Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Tom Suozzi (D-NY) sent a letter Tuesday renewing a meeting request with President Donald Trump to discuss immigration and border security issues in the wake of the Minneapolis shootings. Fitzpatrick and Suozzi, co-chairmen of the Problem Solvers Caucus who both sit in competitive congressional seats, are making a bipartisan effort […]

President Donald Trump expressed his dislike that Alex Pretti, the anti-ICE protester killed in Minneapolis on Saturday, was carrying a gun when he was shot dead by Border Patrol agents. “He shouldn’t have been carrying a gun,” Trump told reporters in Urbandale, Iowa. “I don’t like that he had a gun. I don’t like that […]

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) asked the Department of Homeland Security to cease its immigration enforcement surge in Maine and Minnesota in the wake of two fatal shootings by immigration enforcement personnel this month. Collins, the chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, made the appeal directly to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a conversation earlier […]