US Edition'He Lived to Help Others': Alex Pretti's Co-Workers Remember Him at Vigil
The vigil honored Alex Pretti, a VA nurse shot during ICE enforcement, with hundreds attending to demand changes in ICE tactics and funding.
- On Sunday, hundreds gathered at Louis Stokes VA Medical Center in Cleveland for a last-minute nationwide vigil to mourn 37-year-old VA nurse Alex Pretti and support VA employees and coworkers.
- Video evidence of the Jan. 24 shooting later showed that officials said Pretti had brandished a weapon, but agents had already retrieved his firearm seconds before firing in Minneapolis.
- Union organizers called the vigil and AFGE officials emphasized remembrance, with Betty Hatfield recalling `I will always remember him walking back to help me...We will miss him`, and Faith Broman saying `I do think that his legacy makes me want to go forward`.
- Congresswoman Shontel Brown said she will return to Washington this week and urged continued protest, stating `This type of protest, this type of engagement is what we need to be doing to show the president, his administration, and our Republican colleagues how people are feeling right now across the country, not just here in Ohio.`
- With ICE set to move into Springfield, Ohio this coming week, about 15,000 Haitian immigrants face risk as Temporary Protected Status expires on Tuesday, while local critics urge ICE budget reevaluation.
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Iowa City VA honors former nurse Alex Pretti
Despite icy wind and flurries of snow, members of the Iowa City community gathered together Sunday night in remembrance of Alex Pretti, a former intensive care unit nurse for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Minneapolis who was killed by Immigration Enforcement Agency, or ICE, agents on Jan. 24. Pretti’s death is the sixth death associated with the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration campaign, according to the Associated Press. His …
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