Kerry Leary
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Senior Associate at Be Clear | recovering journalist @MSNBC, @Nexton9news, @newscentermaine | proud @mujschool alumna
Denver, CO, USA
Joined April 2009
Deportations, ICE street arrests are way up — and so are arrests of immigrants with no criminal convictions.
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The jump in arrests and transfers to ICE custody resulted in a sevenfold increase in arrests of people with no convictions, the analysis found.
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Trump officials have ordered national parks to remove dozens of signs and displays related to climate change, environmental protection and settlers’ mistreatment of Native Americans.
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Among the national parks targeted in the new removal orders are some of the country’s most iconic: Grand Canyon, Glacier, Big Bend and Zion.
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"I can't stress enough how on edge and in fear this city is," NBC affiliate @kare11 reporter Jane Shortal tells @yasminv on today's episode of "Here's the Scoop." Shortal, who was on the ground shortly after ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal officers on
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Podcast Episode · Here's the Scoop · 01/26/2026 · 24m
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Full statement from Micayla Pretti, younger sister of Alex Pretti, who was killed by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis on Saturday:
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As events in Minnesota remain in national headlines, read the latest breaking news from dozens of @StarTribune reporters who are on the ground. Outside the paywall, here:
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Federal judge acknowledges ‘extraordinary step’ of summoning top official to testify on ICE enforcement.
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Minneapolis man says Alex Pretti aided his dying father at a VA facility. Now he's concerned the ICU nurse, fatally shot by ICE personnel, will suffer character assassination if he and others don't speak up. https://t.co/w2NQ4KCOkq via @nbcnews with key help from @jean_lee1
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A Minneapolis man said Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, aided his dying father during his last hours at a Veterans Affairs Health Care facility in Richfield, Minnesot
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Statement from the family of Alex Pretti, Michael and Susan Pretti: “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA
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MORE: Plaintiffs in the case have added a declaration from a pediatrician who sought to administer aid to Alex Pretti after he was shot. "ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds." https://t.co/2Jw11lIAvO
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Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said the city has only had three homicides so far this year. “Two of them were ICE," he said.
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Federal judge acknowledges ‘extraordinary step’ of summoning top official to testify on ICE enforcement.
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The parents of Alex Pretti, killed today by federal agents in Minneapolis, live in Colorado, per the AP. Renee Good, killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis on Jan 7, grew up near Colorado Springs.
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Family members say the man who was killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis was an intensive care nurse at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about people and was upset...
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"Videos analyzed by The New York Times appear to contradict accounts given by Homeland Security officials about the shooting." https://t.co/ufO4awqMTm
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Videos analyzed by The New York Times appear to contradict federal accounts of the shooting. The man, an I.C.U. nurse, was an American citizen with no criminal record, the city police chief said.
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An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting. Live coverage: https://t.co/s3ucA6C97y 📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Jana Shortal is one of the finest journalists and humans I know. Journalists and other citizens are putting their safety at risk to document what the government is doing. Keep filming. We need to see.
On Instagram, Minneapolis journalist and anchor Jana Shortal of @kare11 - clearly wearing a press credentials - says she was pepper sprayed and punched in the eye by federal agents while trying to capture the aftermath of today’s fatal shooting.
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Hundreds have packed a Minneapolis intersection near where federal agents shot and killed U.S. citizen Alex Jeffrey Pretti earlier on Saturday. 📸: Louis Krauss
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BREAKING: Witnesses say a man was shot by a federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning.
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Federal judge acknowledges ‘extraordinary step’ of summoning top official to testify on ICE enforcement.
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Anti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23. 📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune Continuing coverage: https://t.co/s3ucA6C97y
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"Federal immigration agents arrested and detained a Gresham family, including a 7-year-old child, outside a Portland hospital last week as the girl’s parents sought emergency medical care for her." https://t.co/dml5XLbkWl
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The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
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For the NYT, @rachelposer and I talked to 45 former and current FBI agents & analysts. Here's what they have to say about how the bureau has changed in the last year, in their own voices. For many of them, this was their dream job. (Gift link.)
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Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe.
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CBS Minnesota: ICE has arrested four children in same Minnesota school district
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School district officials in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, say their sense of security is shaken and their hearts shattered after four students from the district have recently been taken by officers...
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