Several U.S. celebrities have condemned the deadly shootings of U.S. citizens by federal immigration officials during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
They have called for action by asking to contact lawmakers, and some have called for a strike.
This comes amid widespread outrage over the actions of U.S. Immigration Customs and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the state. While Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was killed by ICE agents during operations earlier this month, intensive care nurse Alex Pretti was shot last week on Saturday. Other actions like the detention of a 5-year-old, and the handcuffing of an elderly citizen also saw widespread condemnation.
Singer Katy Perry asked her Instagram followers on Monday to write to their U.S. senators and urge them to oppose funding for ICE agency, which is a part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Actor Pedro Pascal also drew attention to the issue by sharing multiple posts on Instagram related to the issue.
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One of Pascal’s posts included drawings of Pretti and Good with the words “Pretti Good reason for a national strike” along with snippets from a New York Times editorial titled “Two People Are Dead. Americans Deserve to Know the Truth.” Actress Jamie Lee Curtis also shared the same post.
Pascal wrote on Instagram, “Truth is a line of demarcation between a democratic government and authoritarian regime. Mr Pretti and Renee Good are dead. The American people deserve to know what happened.” He also tagged the New York Times.
Singer Billie Eilish posted to her stories several times, including one calling Pretti “a real American hero.” She called out the silence of other celebrities, posting a selfie with the words: “hey my fellow celebrities u gonna speak up? Or.”
Other celebrities who spoke up include Natalie Portman and Olivia Wilde, who appeared at Sundance wearing pins reading “ICE Out.” Several attendees of the Golden Globes earlier this month had also worn those pins.
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“I could not be prouder to be American right now, by the way the Americans are acting. And I could not be sadder to be American right now with the way the government is behaving,” Portman, whose film “The Gallerist” is opening at the festival, told Deadline. Wilde told the Associated Press she was “horrified” by the deaths at the hands of federal agents and that she believed many Americans were as well.
“I think it’s appalling,” said Wilde, in Sundance to promote “The Invite,” which she both stars in and directs. “It’s really difficult to be here and to be celebrating something so joyous and beautiful and positive when we know what’s happening on the streets. Americans are out on the streets marching and demanding justice and we’re there with them.”
Actor Mark Ruffalo also condemned the violence by federal agents. “Alex Pretti is a hero,” Ruffalo wrote on Bluesky, resharing a post about Pretti being a nurse with the Veterans Administration and a dog owner. Earlier, he shared a link to the video of Pretti being shot, writing: “Cold blooded murder in the streets of the USA by an occupying military gang, creating havoc. We have fought wars in other countries for less than this.”