\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t(l-R) Barack Obama & Donald Trump at the funeral of Jimmy Carter, Jan. 9, 2025 (Photo: Getty)<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhoto by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tThe somewhat delayed responses from the two former Commander-in-chiefs also comes as a call for Clinton and Obama, as well as Joe Biden and George W. Bush, to go to Minneapolis and stand directly with anti-ICE demonstrators and immigration enforcement observers is catching on online. <\/p>\n \n\tAs Clinton has been entangled with the GOP controlled Congress the past month in the ongoing and still only partial revealed Jeffrey Epstein scandal, Obama remains likely the only public figure the 79-year-old Trump truly fears. Correspondingly, neither Biden, who Trump hates, nor Bush, who the ex-Apprentice<\/em> host has expressed frequent contempt for, have spoken out about Pretti\u2019s death yet. Responding before many of her peers, former Vice President and Trump\u2019s 2024 rival Kamala Harris said Saturday she was \u201cenraged and heartbroken for Alex, his family, Minneapolis, and America\u201d over Pretti\u2019s killing.<\/p>\n \n\tLate Sunday, after hosting a screening of the Brett Ratner directed Melania documentary at the White House on Saturday night, Trump tried to take back control. He took to social media in one of many posts today to once again call \u201con the United States Congress to immediately pass Legislation to END Sanctuary Cities, which is the root cause of all of these problems.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tNot mentioning Obama or Clinton, but naming Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey directly, and implying California\u2019s Gavin Newsom, New York\u2019s Kathy Hochul, and Illinois\u2019\u00a0JB Pritzker, among others, Trump sought to put Blue States on the back foot again. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cDemocrat run Sanctuary Cities and States are REFUSING to cooperate with ICE, and they are actually encouraging Leftwing Agitators to unlawfully obstruct their operations to arrest the Worst of the Worst People!\u201d he wrote Sunday afternoon. \u201cBy doing this, Democrats are putting Illegal Alien Criminals over Taxpaying, Law-Abiding Citizens, and they have created dangerous circumstances for EVERYONE involved. Tragically, two American Citizens have lost their lives as a result of this Democrat ensued chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tOn cue, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) posted that he would this week \u201cchampion a legislative effort to end sanctuary city policies forever, which could lead to rational immigration reform.\u201d That effort by the Trump golf buddy will apparently run parallel\u00a0with promises from almost all Senate Democrats to kill any ICE funding this week unless there are some big changes at the agency. Such a scorching by the minority party runs the risk of jettisoning efforts to avoid a January 30 government shutdown that looked avoidable until Saturday\u2019s shooting. <\/p>\n \n\tWhile both Good and Pretti have been killed by ICE in the past few weeks, at least half a dozen other people have been shot to death by federal immigration agents over the past year as the Trump administration has ramped up abductions, detentions and deportations. Around 32 individuals died in ICE custody in 2025. As well, there has been gunfire in Minneapolis that didn\u2019t result in death, luckily, On January 14, \u00a0Julio Sosa-Celis was shot in the leg in a home in the north part of the city by ICE as agents were raiding the premises. <\/p>\n \n\tAs they have in almost every incident, Homeland Security portrayed the matter as a defensive move. \u201cFearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired a defensive shot to defend his life,\u201d DHS said in a long and convoluted January 14 post. The Kristi Noem-led DHS did note truthfully: \u201cThe initial subject was hit in the leg.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\")
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