A growing number of Republicans are distancing themselves from federal immigration operations following the fatal weekend shooting of a 37-year-old nurse by border patrol officers in Minneapolis.
Coastal Georgia’s Congressman Buddy Carter isn’t one of them.
After the officers shot and killed Alex Pretti, a U.S. citizen, during an operation to detain an alleged illegal criminal alien, Carter defended U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Trump administration’s surge of some 3,000 immigration agents to Minnesota.
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