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Major Update: Pam Bondi Demands Voter Rolls in Exchange for Removing ICE as Alex Pretti's Family Blasts Trump Administration

Aaron Parnas Jan 25

We have a major update this evening, and well, surging ICE agents to places like Minnesota may not have been able immigration enforcement after all. Instead, tonight, the DOJ is demanding voter rolls from Minnesota in exchange for removing ICE agents, and Senators are sounding the alarms. This will likely be my last update for the evening, but I will have more in the morning, including our weekly good news update to start the morning off. If you are able, consider subscribing to support this work as I am working around the clock to get you the truth. Some media sane-washed what happened today. I refuse.

We are now learning that just hours after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi seized on the incident to escalate the Trump administration’s long-running campaign to obtain unredacted voter data from Democratic-led states. In a letter to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), Bondi explicitly linked the administration’s aggressive immigration raids to a demand for access to the state’s voter rolls. This is what Senator Chris Murphy had to say this evening:

The letter, first obtained by Fox News, accused state and local leaders of fueling unrest sparked by the administration’s immigration operations and asserted that Walz could “restore the rule of law” by complying with a list of federal demands. Among them: granting the Department of Justice access to Minnesota’s voter registration records.

“Allow the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice to access voter rolls to confirm that Minnesota’s voter registration practices comply with federal law as authorized by the Civil Rights Act of 1960,” Bondi wrote.

The timing was explosive. The demand arrived as Minnesota reeled from the killing of Pretti, whose family flatly rejected the administration’s account of the encounter.

“The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting,” the family said in a statement released Saturday night. “Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs.”

The shooting has already triggered emergency legal action. Plaintiffs in an ongoing lawsuit seeking to restrict ICE’s use of force in Minnesota filed an emergency motion late Saturday with the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, asking judges to immediately reinstate limits on ICE operations that had previously been blocked. The filing includes an affidavit from a witness who says they observed the shooting firsthand. A doctor who witnessed the shooting provided a sworn affidavit in support of this effort:

The political fallout is spreading rapidly to Capitol Hill.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that Senate Democrats will refuse to advance a federal funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security in the wake of the Minneapolis killing, citing what he described as unchecked abuses by ICE and Republican unwillingness to confront the Trump administration.

“What’s happening in Minnesota is appalling—and unacceptable in any American city,” Schumer said. “Democrats sought common sense reforms in the Department of Homeland Security spending bill, but because of Republicans’ refusal to stand up to President Trump, the DHS bill is woefully inadequate to rein in the abuses of ICE. I will vote no.”

Schumer made clear that Democrats will withhold the votes necessary to move forward on appropriations if DHS funding remains attached.

Meanwhile, congressional scrutiny is mounting from both parties. House Homeland Security Committee Chair Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) has formally requested testimony from the heads of ICE, Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services at a full committee hearing, according to the Washington Examiner.

Together, the shooting, the DOJ’s voter-roll demand, and the sudden escalation in congressional and judicial action have transformed a single deadly encounter into a broader confrontation over immigration enforcement, federal power, and civil rights. Minnesota now sits at the center of a national clash—one that shows no sign of cooling as investigations, court battles, and funding fights accelerate simultaneously.