DeSantis blames Minnesota officials for immigration turmoil there

By Anthony Man | aman@sunsentinel.com | South Florida Sun Sentinel

PUBLISHED: January 26, 2026 at 1:06 PM EST | UPDATED: January 26, 2026 at 1:07 PM EST

Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday he knows who’s responsible for the turmoil surrounding President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts in Minnesota, which has resulted in the fatal shootings of two American citizens by federal agents.

He faulted them for fomenting opposition to federal immigration enforcement efforts there, and contrasted what he said they’re doing with the crackdown he’s pushed in Florida.

“What we’re not doing is what you have people like Walz and this mayor doing, which is basically trying to sabotage the enforcement operations. They’re creating a toxic environment where they’re really inciting people to go out and show hostility to the agents who are doing this. That is not a recipe for success. That is not the way that you do business, and so we’re going to continue with positive cooperation. It certainly made a difference here in Florida,” DeSantis said.

The governor didn’t address the shooting of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on Jan. 7 or the shooting of Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol officer on Saturday.

I don’t know about you, but it seems reasonable to me for masked ICE officers to pump 10 bullets into an American citizen, Alex Pretti, while he was lying, helpless on the ground and was already disarmed.

I mean, after all, Alex approached them with his hands up, a dangerous phone in one hand and the other hand empty. Who knows what damage he could have done with that phone?

Nine bullets weren’t going to assure the safety of those officers. Even with nine bullets in him, Pretti might have found a way to leap up, wrest a gun from an ICE goon, and shoot someone. Thank goodness for that tenth bullet. It saved lives.

This whole thing was the Minnesota governor’s fault, and it definitely wasn’t Trump’s for creating a crisis when there was none in the first place.

I know this because I get my news from FoxNews and other reliable conspiracy theorists.

And it was definitely the Minnesota governor’s fault that an ICE officer illegally pumped three bullets into Renee Good’s car, two of them — one that killed her — coming after she already had passed the officer.

The death penalty, administered on the street by an ICE goon, is an appropriate punishment for protesting, disagreeing with Donald Trump, and being gay, right?

And it seems reasonable to me for the Supreme Court’s right wing to allow a convicted felon to do anything he wants without the fear of punishment, because the “unitary executive” theory is more important than human lives, and surely more important than common sense, honesty, or morals, three things the current court lacks.

I heard it all from our honesty and morality leaders, Donald Trump and yes, FoxNews and the various conspiracy theorists.

I can understand people like “bloody” DeSantis cheering for these shootings because he leads the nation in signing death warrants. What joy that brings him. He takes his cue from the Germans who cheered Hitler’s extermination of Jews. Like minds think alike.

Because Trump has followed Hitler’s lead so far, will he continue to follow Hitler’s lead to the end?

Let us pray.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell