‘Our spirit can’t be broken’: Minneapolis city council member on resisting Trump’s immigration crackdown

Aisha Chughtai, who represents the district where Alex Pretti was fatally shot, vows to fight through ‘despair’ caused by federal immigration enforcement

• Minneapolis residents, angry and anxious, resolve to fight on as they mourn Alex Pretti

After weeks of federal raids and aggression, Minneapolis city council member Aisha Chughtai said what her community needs most now “is for ICE to leave Minnesota”.

Chughtai represents the district where 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents on Saturday, the second killing of a Minneapolis resident by a federal agent on the city’s southside this year.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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