Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, says federal agencies have failed to share investigative findings with his office.
The Department of Homeland Security has not handed over findings from its probes into the January killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis, despite repeated congressional requests.
Pretti, a U.S. citizen, was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents during an ICE enforcement surge in Minneapolis earlier this year.
Good, also a U.S. citizen, was shot through her windshield by a federal immigration officer during the same period of intensified enforcement activity.
A third incident involved the non-fatal shooting of a Venezuelan man, identified in court filings related to the broader controversy over federal conduct in Minneapolis.
The Department of Homeland Security told NPR that the Justice Department is leading the investigation into the Pretti killing, but the DOJ did not respond to requests for comment on the matter.
Minnesota state officials and Hennepin County sued the Trump administration in late March, accusing federal authorities of withholding critical evidence tied to all three shootings.
State officials say federal agents initially agreed to cooperate at the scenes of the Good and Sosa-Celis shootings, but federal authorities later seized control of the evidence collected there.
At the scene of the Pretti shooting, state investigators say federal authorities physically blocked them from accessing the site entirely, preventing any independent review.
Evidence the state says it cannot access includes Pretti’s cell phone and Good’s car, which state officials say is shrink-wrapped inside an FBI warehouse and has never been examined.
Investigators also say they lack access to identifying information about the immigration officers present at the shootings, including the specific agent who shot Good through her windshield.
The unresolved status of all three federal investigations has drawn intensifying scrutiny from both state officials and members of Congress demanding greater transparency from DHS and DOJ.
Paul’s public criticism signals growing Republican frustration with the pace and opacity of the probes, even among senators who broadly support the administration’s immigration enforcement agenda.
