Native Vote. Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo), who is running to be New Mexico’s next governor, is speaking out against what she called the “cruel and unchecked” actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Border Patrol following the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis man by federal agents.
“This has to stop,” Haaland wrote Saturday in a Facebook post after learning of the killing of Minneapolis resident Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an ICU nurse who was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents. “While Minnesotans and many across the country protest the disgusting and terrifying violence ICE is carrying out in our country, federal agents shot and killed another person. Trump and ICE agents are making our communities unsafe.”
On Friday, Haaland stood alongside protesters at a rally in Albuquerque, where she condemned what she described as a pattern of violence and lawlessness by federal immigration agents…