SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), representing 120,000 frontline healthcare workers, stands in unwavering solidarity with Minnesotans and everyone affected by the unjustifiable killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good. 

Alex was an ICU nurse who cared for veterans, a union sibling, a valued community member who lived with integrity and compassion. He dedicated his life to healing others. Renee was an award-winning poet, beloved mother of three, and a deeply creative and empathetic presence in the lives of all who knew her. They should both be alive today.

We honor their lives by speaking the truth: their deaths are the result of a system that has been allowed to operate with impunity. 

Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident. In 2026 alone, six people have been killed by the hands of ICE, following 32 deaths in 2025. Every life lost is an indictment of a cruel and reckless administration that treats human beings as disposable. 

What we are witnessing is an alarming escalation of violence targeting undocumented people, immigrants, and now U.S. citizens. Raids taking place in healthcare facilities, schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods are an assault on our communities and a direct threat to public safety. Children are being ripped from their parents. Families are being destroyed. Healthcare settings, places meant for healing, are being turned into sites of fear. 

These actions are unacceptable and only further the divisive political agenda caused by the Trump Administration. SEIU-UHW condemns these attacks and demands that ICE agents leave our communities immediately.  

As healthcare workers, we see the detrimental impacts this will leave on generations to come. Patients have already started to delay or avoid life-saving care due to the fear of being kidnapped, or killed, on our streets simply for the color of their skin, their accent, or place of birth. 

SEIU-UHW stands firmly against violence in all its forms. We refuse to accept this as normal. While ICE continues to spread fear and jeopardize public safety, we will continue to speak out, organize, and defend our patients, our coworkers, and our communities.