After the latest shooting of a Minneapolis protester, President Donald Trump's campaign to deport immigrants is quickly losing support from Republican lawmakers, loyalists and conservative publications.
On Sunday, the conservative Wall Street Journal posted an analysis calling the Trump administration out on its lies that VA ICU nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti walked up to ICE officers with a gun, intending to “massacre law enforcement.”
"See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation Saturday," the subheading of the Journal reads.
It notes at the close of the story that reporters continue to ask the administration at what point, exactly, Pretti's gun came out.
“This situation is evolving,” Customs and Border Protection official Gregory Bovino said at a press conference on Saturday. “This is under investigation. Those facts will come to light.”
He refused to answer the same questions on CNN when host Dana Bash asked them.
They've also lost far-right disgraced former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly. In his Sunday column, O'Reilly, who now occasionally appears on NewsNation, tells Trump it's time he make "adjustments."
While O'Reilly spends most of the column trashing Democrats in Minnesota, he also says, "some restraint is necessary." While he pointed the criticism to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), he adds, "That point of view would help him and everybody else."
While many Democrats posted condemnations of ICE and Homeland Security as a whole, Republican lawmakers are also starting to call for accountability.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) posted on X Sunday morning, "There must be a thorough and impartial investigation into yesterday’s Minneapolis shooting, which is the basic standard that law enforcement and the American people expect following any officer-involved shooting. For this specific incident, that requires cooperation and transparency between federal, state, and local law enforcement. Any administration official who rushes to judgment and tries to shut down an investigation before it begins are doing an incredible disservice to the nation and to President Trump’s legacy."
Republican Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-Wash.) commented late Saturday, "I’m disturbed by what I’ve seen from today’s video from Minnesota. It’s critically important that the American people and Congress be given a better understanding of how immigration enforcement is being handled, including the methods federal law enforcement officers are using to prioritize, identify and arrest suspected targets, the training they are receiving, the implementation of body cameras, the threats they face in conducting operations and the challenges posed by sanctuary cities and states."
Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R‑N.Y.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, has already called for a full hearing in which ICE and DHS answer questions.
Even former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) is angry over ICE's attack on a man who was lawfully carrying a gun.
"Legally carrying a firearm is not the same as brandishing a firearm," she wrote on X Sunday morning.
She closed her lengthy post by adding, "You are all being incited into civil war, yet none of it solves any of the real problems that we all face, and tragically people are dying."