ICE Agents Want Out of Minnesota: Trump's 'Battle Is Lost'

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Source: Daily Beast

Updated Jan. 27 2026 7:36AM EST
Published Jan. 27 2026 7:24AM EST


Experienced federal immigration agents in Minneapolis are privately raging about the killing of nurse Alex Pretti and want out of the mission they now see as “lost,” according to a new report. ICE and Border Patrol agents are said to have turned on the operation—and on their colleagues who blasted Pretti. The 37-year-old VA ICU nurse was shot multiple times in the back in a confrontation captured on video last Saturday.

The deadly incident followed another fatal shooting two weeks earlier by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, 43, of unarmed 37-year-old mom Renee Nicole Good, which has caused a leadership crisis inside the Department of Homeland Security—and a crisis of confidence on the frontline.

“This is a no-win situation for agents on the ground or immigration enforcement overall,” one Border Patrol agent wrote in a private chat obtained by journalist Ken Klippenstein and published on his Substack mailout. “I think it’s time to pull out of Minnesota, that battle is lost,” they added.

Anger towards federal agents grew in the wake of Good’s killing, with the Daily Beast reporting earlier this month that they feared for their own safety. Pretti’s death has made the feeling more pointed, Klippenstein reports.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-border-patrol-agents-want-out-of-minneapolis-minnesota-donald-trump-kristi-noems-dhs-battle-is-lost/

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“I think it’s time to pull out of Minnesota, that battle is lost," a Border Patrol agent said in a private chat I obtained:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein.bsky.social) 2026-01-27T17:25:08.187Z

DHS is leaking like crazy right now.

If you’re DHS, join the movement by texting me at 202-510-1268 (Signal recommended)

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein.bsky.social) 2026-01-27T17:46:01.966Z

If you work for DHS and hate your boss / leadership, you have the chance to do the funniest thing.

Be a legend

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein.bsky.social) 2026-01-27T17:54:33.268Z

Border Patrol is circulating peer support materials for personnel in Minneapolis, per Metro Surge resiliency plan leaked to me.

"IT'S OKAY TO ASK FOR HELP," the document (marked "For Official Use Only" for some reason) reads

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein.bsky.social) 2026-01-27T18:10:58.698Z