As lawmakers look for a way forward on a Homeland Security spending measure, the emphasis has initially focused on how President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration policies have impacted communities hundreds of miles from where two U.S. citizens were shot and killed by federal immigration officers.
Minneapolis, where Renee Good and Alex Pretti were shot by federal immigration officers last month, has effectively served as the epicenter of criticism of Trump’s aggressive enforcement policies, but in congressional roundtables and correspondence, lawmakers have made it clear that the impact of that policy has had wide-ranging consequences.
The concerns haven’t just come from Democrats.