Ascent Studio, a climbing gym in Fort Collins, will close Friday to participate in a national shutdown protesting ICE. (Photo courtesy of Ascent Studio)
Businesses across the Front Range are closing Friday or promising donations to immigrant advocacy groups amid calls for a national shutdown and strike to protest escalating U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in Minnesota.
Border Patrol agents Saturday shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis just two weeks after ICE agents shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three. The killings have sparked nationwide outrage, while Trump’s top advisers rushed to spread false information about Pretti and Good, both of whom the administration smeared as “domestic terrorists” hours after they were killed…