Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez helps anti-ICE protest, retains workplace open

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , D-N.Y., pledged her "full assist" for a nationwide anti-ICE protest scheduled for Friday, however stated her workplace wouldn't take part.

Organizers of the "Nationwide Shutdown" marketing campaign have referred to as for "no college, no work and no purchasing" on Friday, arguing that "sufficient is sufficient" within the wake of deadly shootings involving Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis amid a federal immigration crackdown throughout Minnesota.

"The individuals of the Twin Cities have proven the way in which for the entire nation — to cease ICE’s reign of terror , we have to SHUT IT DOWN," organizers wrote on their web site.

Ocasio-Cortez, who has criticized the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement techniques within the state, stated her workplace wouldn't be shutting down.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez voiced assist for a nationwide anti-ICE "nationwide shutdown" protest whereas saying her congressional workplace would stay open. (Al Drago/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)

"Full disclosure — my workplace handles essential casework and immigration cases for the group. We might be open tomorrow to proceed group assist and defend immigrant households," she posted to Instagram.

Ocasio-Cortez then provided her "full assist for nationwide mobilizations, common strikes, and mass motion work."

Organizers for the shutdown marketing campaign asserted on-line that ICE and Border Patrol agents "are going into our communities to kidnap our neighbors and sow worry."

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., stated she helps nationwide anti-ICE protests however is not going to shut down her workplace, citing ongoing constituent and immigration casework. (AP Picture/Angelina Katsanis)

The web marketing campaign added that "it's time for us to all get up collectively in a nationwide shutdown and say sufficient is sufficient."

Pretti, a 37-year-old Division of Veterans Affairs ICU nurse, was shot and killed by Border Patrol brokers on Jan. 24 whereas recording federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis.

Good was fatally shot on Jan. 7 by an ICE officer , who fired in self-defense after she used her Honda Pilot SUV in a method that posed a risk, in line with the Division of Homeland Safety.

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Demonstrators maintain indicators throughout a protest in response to the deadly taking pictures of 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis earlier within the day Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Caroline Brehman)

Hundreds of anti-ICE protesters rallied to halt federal immigration enforcement as a part of an "ICE Out of MN: Day of Reality and Freedom" march throughout downtown Minneapolis on Jan. 23, sooner or later earlier than Pretti was fatally shot.