IT HAPPENED AGAIN! Ice Kills another US Citizen in Minneapolis. He had a carry permit and did not touch his weapon. What happened to the Second Amendment GOP?

‘Kristi Noem Needs to Go.’ Three Columnists on ICE in Minneapolis.

“David French: We are witnessing the total breakdown of any meaningful system of accountability for federal officials. The combination of President Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons, his ongoing campaign of pardoning friends and allies, his politicized prosecutions and now his administration’s assurances that federal officers have immunity are creating a new legal reality in the United States. The national government is becoming functionally lawless, and the legal system is struggling to contain his corruption.

We’re tasting the bitter fruit of Trump’s dreadful policies, to be sure, but it’s worse than that. He’s exploiting years of legal developments that have helped insulate federal officials from both criminal and civil accountability. It’s as if we engineered a legal system premised on the idea that federal officials are almost always honest, and the citizens who critique them are almost always wrong. We’ve tilted the legal playing field against citizens and in favor of the government.

The Trump administration breaks the law, and also ruthlessly exploits all the immunities it’s granted by law. The situation is unsustainable for a constitutional republic.

Michelle Goldberg: The administration is very consciously reinforcing that sense of impunity. First there was Stephen Miller addressing the security forces after one of them killed Renee Good: “To all ICE officers: You have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties.” On Sunday, Greg Bovino, the self-consciously villainous border patrol commander, praised the agents who executed Pretti.

I wish people weren’t allowed to carry guns in public. But they are, and after watching Republicans bring semiautomatic weapons to protest Covid closures and make a hero of Kyle Rittenhouse, it’s wild to hear the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kash Patel, say, on Fox News, “You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines, to any sort of protest that you want.” The point here isn’t hypocrisy; it’s them nakedly asserting that constitutional rights are for us, not you.

Rose: David, I wanted to pick up on your description of the federal government as lawless. As you’ve written, we seem to be in the world described by the Nazi-era Jewish labor lawyer Ernst Fraenkel and what he called “the dual state.” There is one we live in, where we pay taxes and go to work, and life seems to work according to common rules, and the other where the rules no longer apply. Is this what we’re experiencing?”

Timeline: A Moment-by-Moment Look at the Shooting of Alex Pretti

“Federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, at about 9 a.m. Central time on Saturday morning. A video shared with The New York Times by a witness and her lawyer, as well as other video footage posted on social media, documents the violent scene, where agents appear to fire at least 10 shots in a span of five seconds.

The footage seems to contradict the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the encounter, which the agency said began after an individual armed with a handgun approached the federal agents with the intent to “massacre” them.

Mr. Pretti is surrounded by a group of seven agents, some of whom have wrestled him to the ground. One of the agents, who wears a gray coat, gets closer to Mr. Pretti. The agent’s hands are empty as he reaches for Mr. Pretti, while the other agents hold Mr. Pretti down on his knees. At the same time, another agent strikes Mr. Pretti repeatedly with a pepper spray canister.

1 second before

An eighth agent joins the group. The agent in the gray coat appears to pull a gun from near Mr. Pretti’s right hip. The agent then begins to move away from the skirmish with the weapon.

At the same time, another agent unholsters his firearm and points it at Mr. Pretti’s back.

First shot fired

The agent in the gray coat removes the weapon from the scene. It matches the profile of a gun that D.H.S. says belonged to Mr. Pretti. Then, while Mr. Pretti is on his knees and restrained, the agent standing directly above him appears to fire one shot at Mr. Pretti at close range. He immediately fires three additional shots.

The diagram below shows the position of the agents, Mr. Pretti and other civilians at this moment.

Additional shots fired

Several agents have moved away from Mr. Pretti, who has collapsed. Another agent — the same one who shoved the civilians into the street and pepper-sprayed Mr. Pretti — unholsters his gun and fires at Mr. Pretti. The first agent also fires additional shots. Together, they fire six more shots at Mr. Pretti while he lies motionless on the ground.

At least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds. By the moment of the 10th shot, the agent who moved away with the weapon has crossed the street.

Mr. Pretti is the second person to be shot and killed by a federal agent in Minnesota in recent weeks. Footage of Mr. Pretti’s death in Minneapolis was posted on social media almost immediately after the shooting.

The Homeland Security Department said that the episode began after a man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun, and that an agent fired “defensive shots.” Another encounter in Minneapolis this month, in which a Venezuelan man was shot in the leg by a federal agent, was also characterized as “defensive” by the department.

Gov. Tim Walz, Democrat of Minnesota, disputed the claims by federal officials that Mr. Pretti had posed a threat. He accused “the most powerful people in the federal government” of “spinning stories and putting up pictures.”

Chief Brian O’Hara of the Minneapolis Police Department said that Mr. Pretti was an American citizen with no criminal record and that he had a valid firearms permit. Under Minnesota law, citizens can legally carry a handgun in public, without concealment, if they have a permit.”

More on the Unrest in Minneapolis

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• “Watching America Unravel: What our reporter saw, as federal agents stormed the city and residents banded together to protect themselves, was a dark, dystopian future becoming reality.
• Shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti: Witnesses described the fatal shooting in court filings, which raised further questions about the federal government’s narrative of what happened. Some high-profile gun rights activists and groups bristled at government officials’ claims that federal agents may have been justified in killing Pretti because he was carrying a pistol. More than a thousand demonstrators rallied on short notice at Union Square to protest ICE and key Senate Democrats said they would oppose legislation needed to avoid a government shutdown after Pretti was killed.
• Pepper-Sprayed While Pinned Down: Images of a man getting pepper-sprayed at close range while being held down by Border Patrol agents fueled more tension in Minneapolis.
• Businesses Close to Protest ICE: Thousands of protesters shut down streets throughout Minneapolis-St. Paul to demand that federal immigration agents end their weekslong crackdown. Businesses closed in solidarity.”

Previous Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis:

Key Events & Comparative Analysis

Purpose: This page presents a historically grounded comparison between three Nazi power organs—the SA (“Brownshirts”), the Gestapo, and the SS—and the modern U.S. agency ICE during the Trump administration. It focuses on structure, methods, legal context, and key events, and includes a visual chart and timelines. Analogies are inherently limited; the goal is to illuminate differences and similarities in organisational design and practice, not to equate outcomes.

Content includes descriptions of state violence and persecution. Review with care in instructional contexts. Sources and citations are listed with each section.

Executive Summary

SA (Brownshirts) were a mass paramilitary street force used for intimidation and political violence in the 1920s–early 1930s; they were purged in 1934 and largely sidelined thereafter.

Gestapo functioned as a secret police with extrajudicial powers (detention, torture, disappearance) and extensive informant networks; it was centralised under Himmler and later folded into the RSHA.

SS evolved from Hitler’s bodyguard into a state-within-a-state overseeing policing, intelligence, and the concentration camp system; subdivisions included Allgemeine‑SS, Waffen‑SS, SS‑TV, and the SD/Gestapo under the RSHA.

ICE (Trump‑era) is a U.S. law‑enforcement agency with codified statutory authority that intensified immigration raids, broadened enforcement locations, and increased arrests/deportations during Trump’s second term, drawing controversial comparisons to secret police practices.

Approximate Peak Workforce Size (contextual, not equivalence)

Sources: SA ≈ 4,000,000 (April 1934); Gestapo ≈ 32,000 (1944 est.); SS ≈ 800,000 (c. 1944); ICE ≈ 22,000 officers/agents (reported 2026 surge; ERO officers ~6,000).

Compare & Contrast

Aspect	SA (Brownshirts)	Gestapo	SS	ICE (Trump‑era)
Nature	Mass party paramilitary; street intimidation & rally protection.	Secret police; political surveillance; extrajudicial detention.	Elite party corps; police & military powers; ran camps via SS‑TV; intelligence via SD; umbrella RSHA governance.	Federal agency under DHS; civil & criminal immigration enforcement (ERO/HSI).
Legal Oversight	Operated outside normal legal constraints; party violence.	Operated beyond judicial process; “protective custody,” torture; RSHA coordination.	Answerable directly to Hitler via Himmler; consolidated national police; RSHA merged SiPo & SD.	Subject to U.S. law & courts, though critics cite due‑process erosions (e.g. rescinding “protected areas,” contested deportations).
Primary Tactics	Street fighting; voter intimidation; disrupting opposition meetings.	Arrests, interrogations, disappearances; reliance on denunciations/informants.	Policing & intelligence; concentration camp administration; Einsatzgruppen via RSHA.	Administrative arrests, detention & removals; worksite & interior raids; expanded 287(g) local partnerships.
Key Events	Reichstag Fire aftermath (1933); Night of the Long Knives purge (1934); role in Kristallnacht (1938).	Formation (Apr 26, 1933); Himmler control (1934–36); RSHA integration (1939).	Founded (1925); Himmler Reichsführer‑SS (1929); purge of SA (1934); police consolidation (1936); RSHA (1939).	Jan 2025 orders broadened enforcement sites; 100‑day surge (≈66k arrests, ≈65k removals); 287(g) expansion; high‑profile controversies.
Scale & Fear	Millions (peak ≈ 4M) visible street force.	Smaller headcount (~32k) but “omnipresent” effect via informants and terror.	Hundreds of thousands (c. 800k by 1944), “state within a state.”	~22k officers/agents reported in 2026 surge; ERO core ~6k; public fear often linked to raids and deportations.

Timelines: Pivotal Events – Then and Now

SA (Brownshirts)

THEN: August 1921 – German Workers’ Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), which in turn was renamed the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nationalsozialistiche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the Nazis. In August 1921, the party’s newspaper, Der Völkische Beobachter, published an open call for young men to join the SA, imploring men to join the fight against “foreign races” bent on destroying Germany.

NOW: January 6, 2026 – ICE Recruitment ICE targets NASCAR and UFC fans with $100M recruitment campaign

NOW: January 7, 2026 – Minneapolis ICE Shooting Hundreds protest in Minneapolis after ICE officer kills Renee Nicole Macklin Good

THEN: November 8, 1923 – SA Role around the Beer Hall Putsch; their later reorganization. Before He Rose to Power, Adolf Hitler Staged a Coup and Went to Prison The Beer Hall Putsch was a spectacular failure – It also set the stage for Nazi Germany

THEN: January 6, 2021 – Capitol Riot January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol Web Archive

NOW: January 6, 2026 – Whitewash of Capitol Riot Trump White House attempts to rewrite history of Jan. 6, accuses Capitol Police of escalating tensions

NOW: January 6, 2026 – Whitewash of Capitol Riot Trump’s White House just created a Jan. 6 webpage that’s being compared to Soviet Union propaganda – The Trump White House released a webpage on the fifth anniversary of January 6 that presents a drastically false narrative of the Capitol attack, casting Democrats as the “real insurrectionists” while portraying the rioters as “patriotic Americans. Capitol Police “escalated tensions” and bears blame for the violence Mike Pence is accused of “cowardice” for certifying the 2020 election. It repeats the false claim that the 2020 election was “stolen”. Rioter Ashli Babbitt is described as “murdered in cold blood”. Backlash: Political journalists and critics immediately compared it to “Soviet Union-style propaganda,” with NY Times reporter Peter Baker calling it “a breathtaking reversal of reality.” At least 33 of the ~1,600 people Trump pardoned have since been rearrested or charged with other crimes.

NOW: January 6, 2026 – Whitewash of Capitol Riot White House rewrites January 6 history and blames police for deadly attack on 5-year anniversary The website accuses Capitol Police of “deliberately escalating tensions” and claims their use of tear gas “turned a peaceful demonstration into chaos,” despite video evidence showing rioters attacking police first. It frames Trump’s speech as “detailing evidence of election fraud” while omitting the portions where he told supporters to “fight like hell.”The site claims “zero law enforcement officers lost their lives,” despite Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick dying from strokes after being assaulted, and four other officers dying by suicide. It accuses Mike Pence of “cowardice and sabotage” for refusing to overturn the election—a claim contradicted by Pence, legal scholars across the political spectrum, and even Trump’s own aides like Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The website lauds Trump’s pardons of nearly 1,600 rioters as “correcting a historic wrong,” labeling all as “patriotic Americans” even though the group includes members of far-right militias, people convicted of beating police, and alleged Nazi sympathizers.

NOW: January 6, 2026 – Whitewash of Capitol Riot New York Times | Jamie Raskin: Jan. 6 Never Ended – Raskin, the lead impeachment prosecutor, details how Trump made Jan. 6 “an organizing policy commitment of his administration,” including purging law enforcement officials and installing insurrectionists into Justice Department leadership.

NOW: January 6, 2026 – Whitewash of Capitol Riot I read the White House ‘history’ of Jan. 6. Here are the untruths. The site is an effort to get people to look for wrongdoers everywhere except where the wrong was done: by Donald Trump himself. This op-ed systematically debunks the revisionist narrative, noting that Trump wiped away “more than 600 years of sentenced prison time” while drawing “no distinction between someone who’d committed the equivalent of trespassing and someone who tried to murder a police officer.”

THEN: January 30, 1933 SA membership surges into millions; street violence escalates. Nazi Political Violence in 1933 Following Adolf Hitler’s appointment as German chancellor on January 30, 1933, the Nazi Party’s paramilitary organizations, the SA and the SS, unleashed waves of violence against political opponents and Jews.

THEN: March 23, 1933 The Enabling Act The Enabling Act allowed the Reich government to issue laws without the consent of Germany’s parliament, laying the foundation for the complete Nazification of German society. The law was passed on March 23, 1933, and published the following day. Its full name was the “Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Reich.”

NOW: January 7, 2025 – ICE Shooting in Minneapolis Eyewitnesses say Renee Good posed ‘no threat’ to ICE agents ICE says shooting of woman was justified; Walz, Frey say no

THEN: June 30–July 2, 1934 Night of the Long Knives: SA leadership purged. Hitler Purges Storm Troopers, Executes Opponents – On June 30, 1934, Hitler ordered a violent purge of the top leadership of the Nazi Party paramilitary formation, the SA (Sturmabteilungen) or Storm Troopers. This event later became known as “the Röhm Affair” or the “the Night of the Long Knives.

THEN: Nov 9–10, 1938 Kristallnacht participation. Kristallnacht – On the night of November 9–10, 1938, Nazi German leaders unleashed a nationwide anti-Jewish riot. The violence was supposed to look like an unplanned outburst of popular anger against Jews. In reality, this was state-sponsored vandalism, arson, and terror. This event came to be called Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass). It is also referred to as the November Pogrom.

The Sicherheitsdienst (SD)

THEN: June 9, 1931 First Nazi intelligence organization. The Sicherheitsdienst (SD)

Gestapo

THEN: Apr 26, 1933 Gestapo established by Göring. On This Day: 1933 – The Gestapo is Born: Nazi Germany’s Secret Police

The Gestapo: Overview – The Gestapo was Nazi Germany’s infamous political police force. Over the course of the Nazi era, the institution of the Gestapo expanded and changed. The groups targeted by the Gestapo shifted with the regime’s policies and priorities. One thing remained consistent: the Gestapo was a reliably brutal tool that enforced Nazism’s most radical impulses.

THEN: 1934–1936 Himmler consolidation; national authority; SiPo umbrella. The Security Police (SiPo) The Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei, SiPo) was a new German police organization created by SS leader and Chief of the German Police Heinrich Himmler in 1936. The Security Police united the criminal police (Kripo) and the political police (Gestapo). It was closely aligned with the SD (Sicherheitsdienst), the intelligence agency of the SS. The institution and individuals of the Security Police were major perpetrators of the Holocaust.

THEN: Sep 27, 1939 Gestapo becomes Amt IV of RSHA. Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) The Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) was a new agency created by Heinrich Himmler in September 1939, shortly after the German invasion of Poland. The office formalized the relationship between the SS intelligence service (SD) and the Security Police, which consisted of the Kripo (Criminal Police) and Gestapo. The RSHA was an ideologically radical and brutal institution responsible for coordinating and perpetrating many aspects of the Holocaust.

SS

THEN: April 4, 1925 SS founded as Hitler’s bodyguard. The SS The SS (Schutzstaffel, or Protection Squads) was originally established as Adolf Hitler’s personal bodyguard unit. It would later become both the elite guard of the Nazi Reich and Hitler’s executive force prepared to carry out all security-related duties, without regard for legal restraint.

THEN: January 6, 1929 Himmler becomes Reichsführer‑SS; rapid expansion. Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945) was the Reich Leader (Reichsführer) of the dreaded SS of the Nazi Party from 1929 until 1945. Himmler presided over a vast ideological and bureaucratic empire that defined him for many—both inside and outside the Third Reich—as the second most powerful man after Adolf Hitler in Germany during World War II. Given overall responsibility for the security of the Nazi empire, Himmler was the key and senior Nazi official responsible for conceiving and overseeing implementation of the “Final Solution,” the Nazi plan to murder the Jews of Europe.

NOW: November 21, 2024 Stephen Miller Leads Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Who is Stephen Miller, architect of Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans?

THEN: June 30, 1934 SS executes SA purge; becomes independent & ascendant. Night of the Long Knives, in German history, purge of Nazi leaders by Adolf Hitler on June 30, 1934. Fearing that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization’s leaders, including Ernst Röhm. Also killed that night were hundreds of other perceived opponents of Hitler.

THEN: June 17, 1936 Himmler appointed Chief of German Police; consolidation. The Führer’s Decree on the Institution of a Chief of the German Police and Heinrich Himmler’s Appointment to the Post (June 17, 1936) After Hitler’s takeover of power, Himmler became police president of Munich and acquired control over the political police in Bavaria soon thereafter. In 1934, Prussian Minister President Hermann Göring appointed him deputy chief and “Inspector of the Prussian Political Police” (also known as the Gestapo). The following decree, issued by Hitler on June 17, 1936, was intended to complete the process of centralizing the police (or of making it an arm of the Reich) and to thereby end the persistent conflict of interest between Himmler and Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick (1877–1946). In his capacity as the new Reichsführer SS and Chief of the German Police, Himmler remained subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior in formal terms. In reality, however, he was able to exercise his police functions more or less autonomously. The institutional foundation for the development of the SS had thus been laid.

NOW: January 25, 2025 Senate confirms Kristi Noem as Trump’s Secretary of Homeland Security The Senate confirmed South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Saturday to serve as the Secretary of Homeland Security, putting her in charge of executing one of President Trump’s biggest priorities in his second term: cracking down on immigration.

THEN: September 27, 1939 Creation of RSHA (SiPo + SD); SS central role in the Holocaust. Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) The Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) was a new agency created by Heinrich Himmler in September 1939, shortly after the German invasion of Poland. The office formalized the relationship between the SS intelligence service (SD) and the Security Police, which consisted of the Kripo (Criminal Police) and Gestapo. The RSHA was an ideologically radical and brutal institution responsible for coordinating and perpetrating many aspects of the Holocaust.

ICE (Trump‑era)

NOW: January 21, 2025 Early directives revoke “protected areas” guidance; allow arrests at schools/hospitals/courthouses. Trump administration strips schools, churches of immigration enforcement protections

NOW: January 21, 2025 Statement from a DHS Spokesperson on Directives Expanding Law Enforcement and Ending the Abuse of Humanitarian Parole WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman issued two directives essential to ending the invasion of the US southern border and empower law enforcement to protect Americans. The first directive rescinds the Biden Administration’s guidelines for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) enforcement actions that thwart law enforcement in or near so-called “sensitive” areas. The second directive ends the broad abuse of humanitarian parole and returns the program to a case-by-case basis. ICE and CBP will phase out any parole programs that are not in accordance with the law. The following statement is attributable to a DHS Spokesperson: “This action empowers the brave men and women in CBP and ICE to enforce our immigration laws and catch criminal aliens—including murders and rapists—who have illegally come into our country. Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America’s schools and churches to avoid arrest. The Trump Administration will not tie the hands of our brave law enforcement, and instead trusts them to use common sense. “The Biden-Harris Administration abused the humanitarian parole program to indiscriminately allow 1.5 million migrants to enter our country. This was all stopped on day one of the Trump Administration. This action will return the humanitarian parole program to its original purpose of looking at migrants on a case-by-case basis.”

NOW: April 24, 2025 In First 100 Days, Trump 2.0 Has Dramatically Reshaped the U.S. Immigration System, but Is Not Meeting Mass Deportation Aims Is a Constitutional Crisis Imminent? Coming into office, the Trump administration aimed to push legal boundaries and immigrant advocates prepared for a litigation marathon. Groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Democratic attorneys general had brought at least 50 lawsuits to challenge Trump administration immigration policies as of April 22 (see Table 1). While many cases remain in early stages, courts have blocked or slowed high-profile policies including the attempt to restrict birthright citizenship, which mainstream legal scholars have long said is guaranteed in the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. Three appellate courts have upheld nationwide injunctions blocking the administration from restricting birthright citizenship and, in an unusual move, the Supreme Court ordered oral arguments on the topic for May 15 (arguments usually conclude in April).

NOW: April 24, 2025 Expansion of 287(g) Agreements What are 287(g) Agreements and How Do They Fuel Trump’s Mass Deportations? By allowing state and local law enforcement to collude with ICE, these agreements sow distrust in communities, and rip families apart.

NOW: April 28, 2025 How local agencies are partnering with ICE to arrest an increasing number of immigrants CNN – Across the United States, local agencies have become immigration enforcers under a federal program officials say strengthens public safety, but critics warn spreads fear, erodes trust and threatens the fabric of immigrant communities. Known as the 287(g) program, it was created under the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act and allows ICE to authorize state and local law enforcement officers to perform specific immigration enforcement duties under ICE’s supervision. The program is seen by some as a way to rev up President Donald Trump’s effort on illegal immigration as the Department of Justice moves to prosecute state and local officials accused of impeding that effort.

NOW: April 29, 2025 First 100 days: ≈66,463 arrests; ≈65,682 removals ICE touts record-breaking immigration enforcement during Trump’s first 100 days

NOW: March 12, 2025-January 7, 2026 Contested deportation of Kilmar Abrego García despite court protection. A Comprehensive Timeline of the Kilmar Abrego García Case. Everything you need to know about Abrego García, his Nashville prosecution and his myriad court cases

NOW: March 25, 2025 Arrest of Turkish student Rumeysa Öztürk without public charges. US immigration officials arrest Turkish student amid crackdown. A Turkish student attending Tufts University was arrested by US immigration officials in Massachusetts and is being held in detention in Louisiana. Rumeysa Ozturk was detained on Tuesday outside Boston, as she was walking to an Iftar meal to celebrate Ramadan. Video shows masked, plain-clothes officers handcuffing and leading her to an unmarked car.

NOW: May 12, 2025 Timeline of Rümeysa Öztürk’s detention, subsequent activism and judicial proceedings Take a look at the sequence of legal changes and local activism that took place following Öztürk’s arrest.

NOW: January 3, 2026 DHS/press reports of ~12,000 new hires; workforce ≈22,000 officers/agents (surge). ICE Announces Historic 120% Manpower Increase, Thanks to Recruitment Campaign that Brought in 12,000 Officers and Agents

NOW: January 4, 2026 ICE Announces 120% Manpower Increase After Hiring More Than 12,000 Officers and Agents U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced January 3 that it has increased its workforce by more than 120% following a nationwide recruitment campaign that brought in over 12,000 new officers and agents in less than a year. According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency received more than 220,000 applications and exceeded its original hiring goal of 10,000 personnel. ICE said the new hires expanded the agency’s workforce from approximately 10,000 officers and agents to more than 22,000 nationwide. “The good news is that thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill that President Donald Trump signed, we have an additional 12,000 ICE officers and agents on the ground across the country,” said Tricia McLaughlin, ICE’s assistant secretary for public affairs. “That’s a 120% increase in our workforce. And that’s in just about four months.”

January 7, 2026 Minneapolis shooting by ICE officer sparks national backlash. ICE agent fatally shoots woman, 37, in Minneapolis as immigration crackdown sparks outrage. A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and killed a woman during a traffic stop in Minneapolis, triggering protests and a furious backlash from city and state leaders who condemned the federal immigration crackdown as reckless and destabilising.

January 9, 2026 ICE, immigration officials have shot at people at least 16 times in Trump second term Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, was at least the 15th person fired upon by immigration officials in President Donald Trump’s second term. Now, a shooting in Portland, Oregon, by Customs and Border Patrol on Thursday marks the 16th shooting incident by federal immigration officials. Two were injured. Those 16 shooting incidents have resulted in four deaths — including Good — and at least seven injuries, according to a Get the Facts Data Team analysis of data collected by The Trace. In another 15 incidents, federal immigration agents held people at gunpoint but didn’t shoot. Fourteen times immigration agents have fired nonlethal weapons — including tasers, rubber bullets and pepper balls — at people. These numbers are likely an undercount, according to The Trace, as not all shootings are publicly reported.

January 9, 2026 GOP lawmakers question Noem’s handling of ICE-related shooting in Minnesota Republicans on Capitol Hill are expressing skepticism over Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s handling of the Trump administration’s response to an Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) officer fatally shooting a woman Noem has said was committing an “act of domestic terrorism.” Noem’s hasty characterization of the shooting as an entirely justified use of federal force against a woman who “weaponized” her vehicle has raised questions on Capitol Hill and differed in tone from other senior administration officials. “It was very unusual to have a senior law enforcement official to draw a conclusion about an event where the scene was still being processed,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said of Noem’s conclusion that the shooting was in response to a domestic terrorism incident. “I believe that she gave the president advice — and I hope she’s right. But generally speaking, law enforcement would recognize that a life was lost, that families are changed forever, the shooter’s life will change forever, we’re collecting video, we’re trying to assess the situation,” Tillis said. “That didn’t happen,” he added. “Either Secretary Noem has a lot of information that she will share with us in the coming days that formed a basis for advising the president, or she communicated too soon.”

January 9, 2026 GOP senator blocks Trump DHS nominees until Noem testifies before Senate Tillis demands Secretary Noem appear before Senate committee after two unanswered invitations. A Senate Republican intends to block President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) nominees until Secretary Kristi Noem appears on Capitol Hill. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told reporters that he was putting holds on future nominees for the agency because Noem had not yet committed to appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.”My chairman has made two requests in this Congress to have the Homeland Security Secretary [Kristi Noem] come before the committee, and they have yet to confirm that they’re coming,” Tillis said. “That is unacceptable, and so I am putting a hold on anything related to Homeland Security measures until we get an agreement and a scheduled time to come for committee at the least.”

January 13, 2026 Prosecutors Quit After Order Targeting Minneapolis ICE Victim’s Widow The Department of Justice wants to investigate the wife Renee Good left behind, instead of keeping the focus on the ICE agent who killed her. Six Minnesota prosecutors have resigned from the Justice Department over an investigation into the widow of Renee Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week. Among those who quit Tuesday was Joseph H. Thompson, who oversaw a Minnesota fraud investigation last year that has garnered increased attention from the Trump administration in recent weeks. According to The New York Times, Thompson, a career attorney with the DOJ, objected to senior department officials pressing for a criminal investigation into Good’s wife, Becca, as well as to the department’s decision to shut out state officials from the investigation into Good’s killing. Federal agents were already known to be investigating Good’s previous activism in a grotesque attempt to blame her for her own murder and exonerate the ICE agent who shot her, Jonathan Ross. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has described Good as a “domestic terrorist,” President Trump has called her and her wife “professional agitators,” and Vice President JD Vance has said she was “brainwashed.””

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Nuance & Limitations of the Analogy

Historical analogies can illuminate patterns in methods and structures but must not flatten decisive differences in ideology, law, and outcomes. Nazi instruments (SA, Gestapo, SS) operated under a totalitarian regime with genocide at its core. ICE operates within a constitutional system, even if critics argue that specific practices (e.g. arrests in sensitive spaces, rapid deportations, mass raids) risk eroding due‑process norms and chilling civic life.

For a scholarly discussion of why these analogies are common yet risky, see analysis by a Holocaust scholar at References

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The Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 and Enabling Act of 1933 vs January 6, 2021 Riot in Washington DC