Keith Porter, Jr. Renee Nicole Good. Alex Pretti. In a four week period, federal immigration agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) executed three people in the streets. In response, the Trump administration protected the shooters, blocked local and state law enforcement access to evidence, spread disinformation and lies about the shootings and the victims, instigated investigations into the victims instead of the perpetrators, publicly and falsely demonized protests, and ramped up the violent occupation of American cities.

This is not the beginning, and it is not the end. ICE and CBP agents have assaulted, injured, kidnapped, and disappeared thousands of people since Trump took office. Keith, Renee, and Alex are the latest victims of Trump’s assault on the American people, our physical safety, and on the fundamental freedoms without which our democracy cannot stand. And it is a near certainty that there will be more victims if Congress continues to cede its responsibility and sworn duty to impeach and remove federal officials for flagrant abuses of power, starting with President Donald Trump.

Soon after he took office, Trump began sending ICE to conduct violent operations in neighborhoods across the country, focusing his efforts on places whose leaders dared to oppose him or his policies. Congress should have impeached and removed then. It did not. Trump spent months dismantling federal law enforcement oversight and accountability mechanisms, blocking funding for an ICE body camera program, firing career public servants within the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, destroying both agencies’ independence and turning them into tools of the Trump regime. Congress should have impeached and removed Trump then. It did not.

Trump then deployed military troops and vast swaths of masked, armed immigration agents to cities whose leaders opposed him. He militarized and weaponized federal law enforcement to punish Democrat strongholds, disrupt local communities, instill terror in the civilian population, and quell lawful political dissent. He placed Los Angeles, California, Portland, Oregon, and Chicago, Illinois under occupation and subjected their residents to raids, assaults, and violent reprisal while subjecting people to harassment, assault, arrest, and other forms of abuse because of their perceived ethnicity, accent, or because they do manual labor. Again, Congress failed to impeach and remove Trump.

In late 2025, Trump turned his attention to Minneapolis and Minnesota. He targeted the state because Governor Tim Walz served as Vice-President Kamala Harris’s running partner in the 2024 presidential election; because of his animus against Representative Ilhan Omar, a Somali-American who represents a Minneapolis district; because the citizens of Minneapolis voted against Trump in all three presidential elections; and because Minneapolis is home to a large immigrant community. He incited hatred and violence against the city’s Somali residents through xenophobic and dehumanizing insults, calling them “garbage.” Then he unleashed his private army on the people of Minneapolis. Congress again refused to impeach and remove Trump.

Now, federal agents have murdered Keith Porter, Jr., Renee Nicole Good, and Alex Pretti. All three of these shootings were against civilians who posed no threat whatsoever to the agents. Jonathan Ross shot Renee Nicole Good in the head as she sat in her car. As-yet unnamed agents fired ten shots into Alex Pretti as he lay on the ground after being sprayed with chemicals and assaulted by immigration agents because he stood between a federal agent and the peaceful protester whom the federal agent had shoved. Though both shootings were caught on video and witnessed by multiple people, the Trump administration—including Trump and Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem—lied about the shootings, the perpetrators, and the victims. Keith Porter, Jr. likely was armed when he was shot by an off-duty ICE agent—but witnesses suggest he was shooting a gun into the air to celebrate the New Year, and posed no threat to the man who killed him.

Keith, Renee, and Alex: these names have grabbed our nation’s attention, and they should. But they are just the most recent stark consequences of the Trump administration’s abuse of federal immigration law enforcement as his own secret police. ICE agents have assaulted, shot, killed, and disappeared thousands of people across this country, including immigrants, protesters, journalists, and bystanders. ICE has reported that thirty-two people died in ICE custody in 2025, the agency’s deadliest year in more than two decades. Thousands across the country have been illegally removed from this country, many to be imprisoned or abandoned in third countries. For every name we learn, there are thousands whose names we may never learn.

There is no reckoning within the Trump administration, and no sense that they will curtail ICE or CBP violence. Even now, as Minnesotans survive under violent occupation while protesting to protect their neighbors, Trump has launched another aggressive immigration operation in Maine, targeting the second-largest Somali refugee community in the United States.

Trump has turned a violent, improperly trained, and armed military-like force against civilians. Immigrants, protesters, anyone who gets into ICE’s way—physically or ideologically—remain at risk. No one is safe, and nowhere is safe. Federal agents have attacked people in their homes, cars, neighborhood sidewalks, daycares, schools, and workplaces. Trump is now claiming that federal immigration officers have the authority to force their way into people’s homes without a warrant, in violation of the Fourth Amendment. And Trump has issued several executive orders aimed at silencing and punishing political dissent, including by equating anti-fascism with domestic terrorism, designating antifa to be a domestic terrorist organization, and calling for the investigation of people and organizations that oppose him and his ideology.

Congress has allowed Trump to turn against his own people with violence. He is engaging in precisely the kind of tyrannical oppression that our Founders warned of, and tried to ward against. But thus far, Congress has refused to utilize the powers entrusted to it by the Founders. Alex Pretti is the latest person to pay the price for Congress’s evasion of its sworn duties, but he will not be the last. Congress must act now, finally, to fulfill its obligations under the law and impeach, convict, and remove Trump from office.